Document the approval chain for exceptions to policy on strategic financial planning and budgeting.
Strategic Financial Planning and Preparing Estimated Budgets
A concise, decision-focused programme covering strategic financial planning and budgeting end to end.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Capital, liquidity and reputation are all exposed by weak handling of strategic financial planning and budgeting. Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over planning and budgeting. Improvement in this area of financial and banking practice stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Participants leave with a method for strategic financial planning and budgeting, not a set of opinions about it. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place the financial and banking practice capability among the areas with the widest performance spread. Participants test their assumptions about planning and budgeting against scenarios designed to break weak ones. They acquire practical criteria for judging when strategic financial planning and budgeting is working and when it is only appearing to. It suits anyone whose decisions touch planning and budgeting, in large organisations and small ones alike. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this part of financial and banking practice that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set the minimum documentation for planning and budgeting that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Design reconciliation and settlement controls covering strategic financial planning and budgeting.
Assess the concentration risk building up inside planning and budgeting.
Plan the handover of strategic financial planning and budgeting so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Structure records of planning and budgeting so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Build the client due diligence and monitoring appropriate to strategic financial planning and budgeting.
Who Should Attend
Risk managers responsible for strategic financial planning and budgeting.
Financial technology and change staff modernising planning and budgeting.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to strategic financial planning and budgeting that has grown up informally.
Compliance officers overseeing planning and budgeting.
Board risk committee members overseeing strategic financial planning and budgeting.
Managers with direct responsibility for planning and budgeting within the business line.
Course Modules
Strategic financial planning and budgeting: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in strategic financial planning and budgeting
- Review the pricing of strategic financial planning and budgeting against the risk being assumed.
- Confirm that those complying with planning and budgeting understand why it exists.
- Record what was learned when strategic financial planning and budgeting did not go as planned.
- Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of planning and budgeting.
Session 2What planning and budgeting does to capital and liquidity under stress
- Review whether strategic financial planning and budgeting is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
- Translate the appetite for planning and budgeting into limits someone monitors daily.
- Map the handovers in strategic financial planning and budgeting between functions and secure them.
- Prepare the summary of planning and budgeting that senior management will read.
Planning and budgeting: stress testing and scenario analysis
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handling a breach of policy on planning and budgeting properly
- Reduce the variation in how strategic financial planning and budgeting is carried out between teams.
- Compare the cost of planning and budgeting with the cost of its absence.
- Set out the decisions in strategic financial planning and budgeting that require sign-off and by whom.
- Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside planning and budgeting.
Session 2What a supervisor will ask about planning and budgeting, and in what order
- Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering strategic financial planning and budgeting.
- Define acceptance criteria for planning and budgeting in advance.
- State the risk appetite for strategic financial planning and budgeting as a number, not an adjective.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on planning and budgeting.
Planning and budgeting: risk appetite, limits and policy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for planning and budgeting that is actually needed
- Confirm regulatory reporting on strategic financial planning and budgeting is complete, timely and reconciled.
- Confirm reporting on planning and budgeting reaches the committee that can act on it.
- Identify the key controls over strategic financial planning and budgeting and who tests them.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when planning and budgeting underperforms.
Session 2Stress scenarios for strategic financial planning and budgeting that are plausible rather than convenient
- Assess the capital consumed by strategic financial planning and budgeting under current and stressed conditions.
- Agree who signs off planning and budgeting and record that they did.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around strategic financial planning and budgeting are understood.
- Define the trigger that would require planning and budgeting to be redesigned.
Planning and budgeting: exceptions, breaches and remediation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The control on planning and budgeting that looks strong and is not
- Confirm that reporting on strategic financial planning and budgeting reaches the people who can act.
- Check the legal and contractual exposure created by planning and budgeting.
- List the assumptions in any model supporting strategic financial planning and budgeting and when each was last challenged.
- Build the internal briefing that explains planning and budgeting to those affected.
Session 2Moving planning and budgeting from approval to execution
- Check the accounting treatment applied to strategic financial planning and budgeting against current standards.
- Name a single owner for each element of planning and budgeting.
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating strategic financial planning and budgeting operated as designed.
- Design the exception process for planning and budgeting and require a documented rationale.
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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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