Many finance professionals will find that most of their work is project-based, such as those working in audit or multidisciplinary project teams, and for them, strong project management skills are essential. Other finance professionals, whose day-to-day work doesn’t usually involve projects, will often encounter a whole range of smaller one-off projects, and these too need to be well managed. 

So, whether you are leading an audit, undertaking an investment appraisal, valuing a potential acquisition, securing new funding or implementing a new finance system, this course will help you to become a better project manager to ensure your project is a success. 

• The Project Management Institute (PMI)’s nine areas of project management which highlights the core areas you must control to keep a project on track

• The most common causes of project failure that you will need to be vigilant for to ensure you reach your targets

• The importance of stakeholder management and tips for effectively managing key relationships

• Gido and Clements’ hierarchy of project stakeholders for understanding the different decision-making responsibilities of the key project stakeholders 

• The skills that a team and their project manager need in order to work together seamlessly towards a common goal

• PMI’s five-step project management process – a model that can be used to plan and organise a project to ensure it stays on track

• The elements of an effective project plan that will ensure a project is organised, managed and controlled successfully 

• The stages of risk management for identifying and managing potential threats to the project that could cause it to stall or fail 

• An introduction to project planning techniques including network analysis, Gantt charts, work breakdown structure and resource histograms to help you to schedule tasks and manage your resources more effectively

• An overview of tools that can be used to manage uncertainty in a project, such as PERT, scenario planning and contingency planning