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Strategic Finance for Accountants

Course Delivery: Online
Start Date: September 2026
Duration: 15 hour/s

Course Information

Strategic Finance for Accountants is a programme designed for accounting and finance professionals who want to step into more influential, commercially focused roles.

As AI increasingly takes care of processing, reporting, and first-pass analysis, the value of finance is shifting. What matters now is how you interpret the numbers, frame decisions, and influence outcomes.

This programme helps you make that step, from producing information to shaping what happens next.

Worth up to 15 CPD hours.

Recognise This Situation 

Meet Sarah.

She’s established in her accounting career. Technically strong and trusted.

She prepares analysis, builds forecasts, and contributes in management meetings.

In one meeting a few months ago, she spoke up. She questioned a set of assumptions she thought were optimistic.

The conversation moved on quickly. No one picked it up. She wasn’t sure how to push it further, so she let it go.

In a more recent strategy discussion about a new product line, she has done the analysis. But as she listens, something doesn’t quite stack up. The assumptions seem optimistic. Some costs feel understated, though she can’t clearly explain why.

She has the information, but not a clear recommendation. Not a way to frame what she sees so others engage with it.

So she stays quiet.

The decision moves forward.

Later, she thinks about both moments. The time she spoke up and wasn’t heard. And the time she stayed quiet.

In both cases, she had the analysis. But she didn’t influence the outcome.

If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.

You’re technically strong and closer to the business. But you’re not yet being asked, “What do you think we should do?”

Strategic Finance is about closing that gap.

  • 8 hours of workshops spread across 4 weeks

  • 5 individual one-hour coaching sessions

  • Worth up to 15 CPD hours.

Delivered Online

All learning is live, interactive, and applied, grounded in real CFO experience rather than theory alone. 

  • Stronger business partnering skills

  • Greater influence in decision-making

  • A clearer path to senior and leadership roles

  • More interesting, higher-impact work

  • Increased market value and career opportunities

  • Confidence to contribute in an AI-enabled environment

Strategic Finance for Accountants: Staying Relevant and Adding Real Value

The role of finance is changing.

High-performing accountants are no longer defined by the reports they produce, but by the clarity they bring to decisions. They connect financial insight to commercial outcomes, communicate with confidence, and help leaders act.

If you want to increase your influence, contribute at a higher level, and position yourself for leadership roles, Strategic Finance is designed to support that transition.

You will learn practical tools and approaches you can apply immediately in your work.

Location

  • Auckland
  • Bay of Plenty
  • Blenheim
  • Canterbury
  • Chatham Islands
  • Christchurch
  • Dunedin
  • Gisborne
  • Waikato
    • Hamilton
  • Hawkes Bay
  • Manawatu
  • Manukau
  • Marlborough
  • Nelson Bays
  • New Lynn
  • Northland
  • Oamaru
  • Otago
  • Southland
  • Taranaki
  • Tauranga
  • Timaru
  • Wairarapa
  • Wanganui
  • Wellington
  • West Coast
  • Whangarei

Payment Option

Payment Plan Available

You may pay this fee in instalments if you wish. 50% prior to the course start date, 25% after Module 2, and 25% after the final training session.

In addition, some organisations may be able to apply for co-funding through the RBPN (Regional Business Partner Network).

If you would like to know more about this option, please contact MacGregor Jamee Limited.

 

The Commercial Literacy Guarantee

We’re confident Strategic Finance gives you the tools, techniques, and mindset to be a good cost centre manager.

That said, we’re happy to offer you this no-questions-asked guarantee:

If you believe Strategic Finance isn’t right for you after participating in the first group training session, we will refund the fees you’ve paid to this point.

No questions asked.

About MacGregor Jamee Limited

The numbers matter. What you do with them matters more.

Career Pathway

  • Finance Business Partner
  • Financial Controller
  • Senior Finance Roles
  • Chief Financial Officer

Course Features

Strategic Finance for Accountants: Staying Relevant and Adding Real Value

The role of finance is changing.

High-performing accountants are no longer defined by the reports they produce, but by the clarity they bring to decisions. They connect financial insight to commercial outcomes, communicate with confidence, and help leaders act.

If you want to increase your influence, contribute at a higher level, and position yourself for leadership roles, Strategic Finance is designed to support that transition.

You will learn practical tools and approaches you can apply immediately in your work.

MacGregor Jamee Limited MacGregor Jamee Limited
Strategic Finance for Accountants
Course Delivery: Online
Start Date: September 2026
Duration: 15 hour/s

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