ISB | Chief Financial Officer Programme

Eligibility Criteria :

• Minimum education requirement: UG Qualification (Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent)
• Preferred: Two-year Master's Degree from a recognised University with 50% aggregate marks.
• Work experience: Minimum of 10 years post-completion of qualifying education.

Module 1 Changing Role of the CFO:

• Historical and current trends in the CFO role
• Future trends and challenges in the CFO's office
• Effective communication with stakeholders
• Building and leading high-performing teams
• Quantifying business objectives and metrics through 0l ROE, PE, EVA, etc. Masterclass
• Negotiation Theories: Useful while dealing with banks, The CFO Role, auditors, and various stakeholder - Then, and Now
• Balanced scorecard for decision making

Module 2 Global Economics for a CFO:

• Global economic imbalances
• Challenges of international business and finance
• International monetary system & impact on interest rates & exchange rates
• Macroeconomic trends & corporate finance decisions
• Macro economic indicators that impact corporate financial affairs
• Recurring global & domestic economic events a CFO should watch
• International financial markets and financing choices

Module 3 Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Financial statement analysis for CFOs
• Accounting red flags that analysts or rating agencies watch out for
• Forecasting and variance analysis for tracking KPI
• Budgeting process and best practices
• Forecasting methodologies and techniques
• Developing accurate financial projections

Module 4 Strategic Corporate Finance :

• Capital structures
• Financing growth
• Cost of capital
• Capital budgeting
• Project valuation
• Investment decisions rule
• Working capital decisions
• Dividend decisions

Module 5 M&A and Business Valuation:

• Inorganic growth levers for the CFO
• Role in M&A and other corporate actions
• Exchange ratio
• Takeover defences
• Negotiation
• Comprehensive due diligence process
• Deal structuring & pricing
• Financing M&A transactions
• Pre-deal and post-integration challenges
• Risk management in M&A
• Hedging strategies

Module 6 Corporate Governance & Regulatory Requirements:

• Role of board and audit committee
• Building effective frameworks for how risk is perceived & managed by firm
• Risk governance: set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities
• Managing investor relations
• Financial market & regulatory landscape
• Crisis management for effective response and resolution
• Data privacy, sustainability and impact of ESG

Module 7 Corporate Risk Management:

• Financial risk management - market, credit, liquidity, operational
• Treasury management for multinationals
• Regulations and their impact on treasury management
• Tools to measure and manage Risk
• Asset liability management and liquidity management
• Information security and threat assessment

Module 8 Fintech:

• Introduction to fintech
• Fintech business models and ecosystem
• Trade finance using blockchain
• lending tech
• Cross border payments
• Supply chain finance

Module 9 Leadership Development and Talent Management:

• Change management in leadership and new initiatives
• Managing stakeholders across C-Suite positions in multi-jurisdictional organisations
• Leading future of work and second level of leadership
• Agile leadership

Module 10 Digital Transformation and Analytics:

• Financial analytics and dashboarding
• Technologies used for building an agile decision making ecosystem
• Role of Al'in data-centric decision making