This course equips finance professionals with the mindset, models, and practical techniques needed to enable enterprise agility while maintaining strong financial stewardship. Participants will explore how traditional finance practices interact with complexity, why many controls struggle in fastchanging environments, and how finance can evolve from a gatekeeping role into a system steward that enables learning, value flow, and responsible decisionmaking.
Through a mix of conceptual frameworks, facilitated discussion, simulations, and handson exercises, learners will examine budgeting, accounting, and procurement through an agile lens. The emphasis throughout is not on weakening discipline, but on redesigning financial systems so that rigour, adaptability, and trust can coexist.
By the end of the course, participants will have:
- A clear mental model for why finance must change in complex environments
- Practical approaches to adaptive budgeting, funding, and forecasting
- Increased confidence applying agile principles within accounting and compliance constraints
- Tools to improve collaboration, trust, and value creation across the business ecosystem
Prerequisites
Participants should have:
- Experience working in or closely with a finance, accounting, procurement, or governance function
- Familiarity with basic financial concepts (budgeting, forecasting, reporting)
- No prior agile certification required
Target audience
This course is designed for:
- Finance professionals (FP&A, accounting, controlling, procurement)
- Finance leaders supporting agile or digital transformations
- Business partners working at the intersection of finance and delivery
- Leaders and coaches seeking to understand agile finance principles
