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Confidently Run The Planning Processes At Your Company And Become An Accomplished Leader
Finance teams I’ve trained
We were initially hesitant about piloting Christian Wattig's FP&A skills program. However, after experiencing the workshops, we found that his core content and delivery were indeed strong. We would recommend Christian as a corporate trainer. He possesses a strong foundation in FP&A, excellent content development skills, and a clear ability to facilitate engaging sessions.”
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The Complete Budgeting Toolkit: Everything You Need To Succeed
You will have an A-Z guide for navigating the planning process along with frameworks you can easily reference.
You will set the right goals, avoid the most common pitfalls, and get all departments fully invested in the process.
You will have all the templates and technical skills needed to collect & consolidate the data in Excel.
You will learn how to speed up the budgeting process while also improving the data quality & output.
You will understand why the biggest value comes from comparing budgets to actuals and how to capitalize on that value.
You will be able to remove most of the stress from the process and forget about iteration all-nighters.
4 Steps To Budgets That Stay Relevant & Help Leaders Make Better Decisions
Understand The Ins & Outs Of The Planning Process
Discover how to organize the planning process, what your responsibilities are, and how to fulfill them.
Gain Relevant Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Master data consolidation in Excel while learning how to engage the cross-functional team and create a collaborative budgeting process.
Navigate The 5 Stages Of Annual Planning
Learn how to run the process confidently and without hiccups, from budget kick-off to final alignment.
Adopt The Budgeting Best Practices Of Top Companies
Discover how leading companies ensure budgets remain useful even when variances to actuals become significant and emulate that success.
“Christian does a great job going over high-level concepts, but also highlighting granular details that will help our budgeting process going forward.”
Who The Leading The Budgeting Process Course Is For
Finance & accounting professionals
Who are new to budgeting and planning and want to get all the technical & interpersonal skills needed to confidently run the whole process.
Experienced finance managers
Who want to learn budgeting best practices only a select few finance pros know how to fully leverage and take their processes to the highest level.
Professionals not working in finance
Who need to plan the supply chain, headcount, product launches, etc., and want to pick up skills that will help them optimize this process.
Your Instructor
Hi, I’m Christian Wattig, and I’ve spent the last three years helping 1000+ corporate finance professionals and business leaders take their FP&A skills to the next level via my courses and workshops.
Before that, I spent eleven years at Procter & Gamble and Unilever leading FP&A and accounting teams, taking Squarespace public as an FP&A leader, and working in many other finance roles.
I’m also the director of the Wharton School's FP&A certificate program. And I regularly get hired to uplevel the FP&A skills of teams in top companies such as Lowe's, Merck, Google, and many others.
"Great information shared on the budgeting process and helpful documents provided so that there is material we can continually reference"
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Get Everything You Need To Effectively Run The Budgeting Process In 5.5-7.5 Hours
I made sure the Leading The Budgeting Process course is hyper-focused on techniques & strategies you can instantly apply in Excel and organizing the process across the company:
You get lifetime access to 41 bite-sized video lessons, real-life case studies, and practical exercises with detailed solution walkthroughs you can go through at your own pace.
You will get all the analytical, technical, interpersonal, and organizational skills needed to run every aspect of the planning process.
Most people start applying what they’ve learned after 5.5 to 7.5 hours of active engagement.
But your learning & skills advancement doesn’t end with the course material. You can always share your unique situation and pose any questions you have to Christian or other FP&A pros in the private community.
Don't Reinvent The Wheel - Learn How Top FP&A Pros Tackle Common Challenges
Enrolling in the Leading The Budgeting Process course grants you access to a private community of hundreds of finance professionals who went through my courses & other training.
On the inside, you can join relevant FP&A discussions, network, and constantly improve your skills.
You can also get all your questions answered by your peers and/or Christian Wattig.
What You’ll Learn Inside The Leading The Budgeting Process Course
The course includes 3 modules and 5 submodules that cover everything you need to create budgets that drive better:
You will learn how to get high-quality inputs, ensure collaboration & support from leaders across the company, and execute every aspect of the 5 budget creation phases (kick-off, joint planning, consolidation, iteration, and alignment).
Plus, you get hands-on exercises and case studies that ensure you can apply what you learn in your unique planning circumstances.
Here’s what’s included in each module and submodule:
Planning Process Overview
Core Planning Tasks Explained
Annual Budgeting From A-Z
"The most important thing I took away from the course was how to engage stakeholders in the planning process. Often times we get lost in the data and financials without understanding how to engage other departments. This allows finance to add value across an organization"
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The Budget Submission Challenge Cheatsheet
A fully built-out budget collection template for Excel or Google Sheets
Monthly Q&A With Christian Wattig
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Here’s Everything You Get If You Enroll In The Financial Modeling For FP&A Course Today
Step-by-step professionally recorded video training designed to give you everything you need to master every aspect of the planning process.
500+ finance professionals used the training to establish themselves as budgeting process leaders.
Bite-sized lessons you can start immediately and cover at your own pace. It usually takes people 5.5-7.5 hours to go through it all.
Hands-on exercises with detailed solution videos that prepare you for applying everything you learn at your company.
Case studies with real-life examples and Excel templates that ensure you can apply everything you learn in practice.
Detailed slides as downloadable handouts for easy recap of all lessons.
Access to a private community of finance professionals for networking and getting all your questions answered.
Direct access to Christian Wattig, one of the most renowned FP&A experts in the US.
A digital certificate that top companies value.
Lifetime access to all videos and downloadable materials.
Get Reimbursed By Your Employer
Many of our students got reimbursed by their companies for the course before or after enrolling.
Most employers say yes because of Christian's credentials and the job-relevant skills you learn. Even if they say no, you still win because asking shows you value education and are willing to put in the extra effort to improve your skills. This establishes you as an ambitious high-achiever.
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"As an early-stage startup the planning and budgeting process outline was super helpful to think about our processes and frameworks."
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What Finance Professionals Are Saying About Christian And His Other FP&A Courses
Organized, experienced and practical material and tutor. Good job Christian, thank you.
Christian does a great job going over high level concepts, but also highlighting granular details that will help our planning process going forward.
Christian is well versed in the topic and provides very clear and concise information.
Really solid and focused curriculum from Christian. You can tell he's got great subject matter expertise and he breaks down the concepts into the right level of detail. I picked up a number of strategies that I'll be implementing into my company.
Christian is outstanding. He has wonderful experiences to draw from and uses concrete examples that you can relate to and learn from. By providing slides and materials, you can focus your time on listening versus having to worry that you haven't written down important notes.
This is a great course and the resources are invaluable.
Chris is a great instructor and I really enjoyed the FP&A course.
Really helpful course with amazing insights and suitable for every Finance Professional!
