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Professional Certificate in Finance and Performance Management
Units
In order to qualify for this Certificate, candidates must successfully complete its two component units and two written tasks. Candidates who wish to qualify for an Award must complete one Unit and its associated written task.
Unit 5007 Financial control (9 CATS Points)
This unit covers a range of skills and knowledge which any civil servant working in finance needs. The skills are also transferable to and applicable in a wider range of contexts. The current financial situation is also examined in detail with implications for the public sector as a whole and the civil service in particular.
The component seminars cover demystifying the jargon and accounting concepts, the financial year, budgeting techniques and profiling, the role of finance professionals, using management information, budgeting methods and considerations, defending a budget and the art of profiling, re-forecasts and variance reports, as well as the future of public spending, budget management and control, scrutiny and accountability, and performance management.
Learning outcomes include being able to understand, use and control a financial system to meet objectives, being able to identify and use a range of financial controls, and being able to understand the sources and availability of finance to an organisation.
Seminars
- Civil servants guide to finance
- Civil servants guide to budgeting
- Forthcoming issues in public sector finance
Unit 5003 Performance management (9 CATS Points)
This unit covers the management of individual, team and organisational performance and the management of external relationships.
The component seminars in the unit look at motivation, empowerment, internal relationships and feedback, strategies for handling conflict, dealing with poor and outstanding performance, achieving positive outcomes, the ACAS code of practice, a practice interview session, vision, mission, values and behaviours, differences between policy and strategy, building competencies and managing change, and Swot, mind mapping and communication. It also looks art the benefits of coaching, mentoring and counselling, and application of GROW.
Learning outcomes include identifying and agreeing performance objectives, assessing performance and providing feedback, understanding performance and supporting improvement, and understanding organisational and statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures.
