Contact: +61-409-864-808 Alan@AlanCameronSweeney.com
Do you need your Finance team to be more influential?
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Does your Finance team know what their stakeholders want?
The number 1 thing missing from your Finance team's strategy
The 3 elements of an Influential Finance Team
Forward Looking
Finance needs to be future focused in order to help the business know what to do next.
The business wants to know what it can impact going forward.
Business Lens
See the world from the business’s perspective.
What goals are they trying to achieve? What pressures are they under? What really matters to the individual stakeholders?
Curiosity
Nobody has all the answers & Finance doesn’t need to have them.
But what Finance does need is curiosity.
This leads to understanding stakeholders, situations and leads to finding solutions.
How to embed a culture of influence
What success looks like
What is the business’s approach to interacting with your Finance team?
When your customer ignores you
We all know plenty of brands that couldn’t pay you to use their products.
Many of us have also been in Finance teams that the rest of the business doesn’t want to interact with. That may be down to the lack of impact Finance has, or a perception of a lack of impact.
What success looks like
When the business has a financial decision to make, you want them to initiate the contact with Finance.
You want Finance to be the people they call as they know you will add value.
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The Roadmap to being influential
Deep dive with my live workshop recordings
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So, who are you, Alan?
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Why Alan does what he does.
Credibility and Expertise
Alan is a highly-regarded corporate educator renowned for delivering top-notch workshops and training on Finance Business Partnering. In 2022, he conducted public and virtual workshops for CPA Australia and plans to continue doing so in 2023. He has also delivered keynote speeches and training at various CPA Australia events across Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. In addition, he has contributed to the development of their self-paced online learning courses.
In 2021, Alan became a board member of Professional Speakers Australia
Background
Alan's journey as a corporate educator began after training as an accountant at CRH, Ireland's largest company. In 2009, he moved to Australia and took on a role leading a professional development program for finance staff at a major Melbourne corporation. Through this experience, he gained a deep understanding of the challenges faced by accountants as they strive to transition from "adding up" to "adding value.”
Who Alan Helps
Alan's journey as a corporate educator began after training as an accountant at CRH, Ireland's largest company. In 2009, he moved to Australia and took on a role leading a professional development program for finance staff at a major Melbourne corporation. Through this experience, he gained a deep understanding of the challenges faced by accountants as they strive to transition from "adding up" to "adding value.”
Alan's journey as a corporate educator began after training as an accountant at CRH, Ireland's largest company. In 2009, he moved to Australia and took on a role leading a professional development program for finance staff at a major Melbourne corporation. Through this experience, he gained a deep understanding of the challenges faced by accountants as they strive to transition from "adding up" to "adding value.”
What People Are Saying
“Rated 4.9 /5 by conference attendee”
“Practical, informative, entertaining and engaging – just a few of the words our delegates used to describe Alan’s keynote session, one of the top-rated speakers at our Congress in Darwin this year.
With his own unique comedy style, Alan gave our audience food for thought and valuable tips to change their approach to reporting and data visualisation. Who knew Motown was so relevant to the accounting profession!"
Rachel Bakker
- Conference & Events, CPA Australia
“Alan is intellectual, funny and a great presenter. His session was fun and informative at the same time.”
Milii Sharma
- CPD Co-ordinator, Institute of Managers and Leaders
“Plenty of clear takeaways"
“From our initial communication to the event on the day; Alan was friendly, professional and a pleasure to host. Throughout his presentation, Alan engaged our members with his animated and expressive humour; and provided plenty of clear takeaways in his content.
We received nothing but positive feedback from the attendees, as they really enjoyed Alan’s interactive approach. I would highly recommend Alan, and look forward to working with him again.”
Sarah Dension
- Events and Relationship Executive New Zealand, CPA Australia
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