Agility in Finance

This course will enable you to

• Identify how agile thinking can benefit both you and your organisation
• Understand how finance can collaborate effectively across the business
• Apply agile principles to budgeting, planning, and continuous re-planning
• Design flexible financial processes that adapt to changing business needs
• Implement simple agile practices to strengthen risk management

About the course

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, finance teams are under pressure to respond faster, provide better insights, and adapt to shifting priorities. Traditional finance processes can feel too rigid, slowing down decision-making and limiting the ability to add strategic value. Many finance professionals are unsure how to bring greater agility into their work without compromising on governance and control.

This course explores what agility really means in a finance context. You'll learn how agile approaches can enhance budgeting, planning, and re-planning, and how they apply to day-to-day financial operations. The course also covers how to improve collaboration across the organisation, support governance and risk management, and run agile experiments to encourage innovation and continuous improvement.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to apply agile thinking to your finance role with confidence. You’ll understand how to design more flexible processes, manage risk proactively, and contribute to a finance function that is responsive, resilient, and ready to support business transformation.