Managing Factoring Operations and Invoice Financing

Turn factoring and invoice financing from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over factoring and invoice financing. Models supporting invoice financing fail quietly, and usually at the worst moment. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in this part of financial and banking practice, not around theory headings. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of factoring and invoice financing and prepares them for it. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the wider financial and banking practice agenda has actually achieved. Across sectors, teams that rehearse invoice financing outperform teams that only plan it. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for factoring and invoice financing, not for observers of it. Improvement in invoice financing stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this strand of financial and banking practice survives a hostile question.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Test the organisation's response to factoring and invoice financing under conditions that are less than ideal.

02

Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in invoice financing.

03

Communicate the purpose of factoring and invoice financing to those who have to comply with it.

04

Design the reporting on invoice financing that reaches decision makers in time to act.

05

Prepare the regulatory submissions arising from factoring and invoice financing.

06

Define the risk appetite applying to invoice financing and translate it into operating limits.

07

Build the audit evidence that demonstrates factoring and invoice financing operated as designed.

Who Should Attend

01

Financial technology and change staff modernising factoring and invoice financing.

02

Investment and portfolio managers exposed to invoice financing.

03

Regulatory reporting analysts covering factoring and invoice financing.

04

Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by invoice financing.

05

Officers preparing reports on factoring and invoice financing for boards or oversight committees.

06

Credit and underwriting officers assessing invoice financing.

Course Modules

01

Factoring and invoice financing: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reporting factoring and invoice financing so the reader can act on it

  • Confirm that those complying with factoring and invoice financing understand why it exists.
  • Rank the weaknesses in invoice financing by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Test factoring and invoice financing against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering invoice financing.

Session 2Concentration building quietly inside invoice financing

  • Confirm regulatory reporting on factoring and invoice financing is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Agree who signs off invoice financing and record that they did.
  • Name a single owner for each element of factoring and invoice financing.
  • Close out actions on invoice financing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
02

Invoice financing: stress testing and scenario analysis

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building lasting competence in invoice financing

  • Translate the appetite for factoring and invoice financing into limits someone monitors daily.
  • State the risk appetite for invoice financing as a number, not an adjective.
  • Set out the decisions in factoring and invoice financing that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for invoice financing.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on invoice financing starts

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates factoring and invoice financing is under control.
  • Identify where judgement in invoice financing is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to factoring and invoice financing will be introduced.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on invoice financing.
03

Invoice financing: reporting that supports a decision

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What a supervisor will ask about invoice financing, and in what order

  • Agree what will be standardised in factoring and invoice financing and what will not.
  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in invoice financing.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to factoring and invoice financing.
  • Review the pricing of invoice financing against the risk being assumed.

Session 2The cost of factoring and invoice financing and how to present it

  • List the assumptions in any model supporting factoring and invoice financing and when each was last challenged.
  • Verify six months later that changes to invoice financing have held.
  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating factoring and invoice financing operated as designed.
  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by invoice financing.
04

Invoice financing: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The control on invoice financing that looks strong and is not

  • Confirm reporting on factoring and invoice financing reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Design the exception process for invoice financing and require a documented rationale.
  • Check that factoring and invoice financing still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to invoice financing are current.

Session 2The early warning on invoice financing that arrives in time

  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside factoring and invoice financing.
  • Assess the capital consumed by invoice financing under current and stressed conditions.
  • Arrange the handover of factoring and invoice financing so capability survives staff changes.
  • Confirm that reporting on invoice financing reaches the people who can act.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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