This 12-week training program provides hands-on experience to become a financial analyst. Students learn advanced Excel, SAP modules including FI, CO, and BI, and practical financial analyst skills like month-end activities, variance analysis, management reporting, budgeting, and SOX compliance. Graduates receive job placement assistance including guaranteed interview calls. The program is offered in the USA and aims to provide 3 years' worth of work experience in a short time by training students using the same software, templates, and data used in companies.

1. Strategic Financial Analyst Training Program
BE A FINANCIAL ANALYST IN 12 WEEKS & RECEIVE
JOB PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE WITH GUARANTEED
INTERVIEW CALLS
Our Strategic Financial Analyst Training Program (SFA) is offered in the USA in collaboration
with our affiliated strategic alliance partner ICIT, Canada, and is a very comprehensive practical
hands on training, designed by professional working managers with extensive experience in
large multinational organisation. This training aims to provide you equal to three years of work
experience in a very short period of time. All this experience you will otherwise get in many
years by working in different organisations. You are learning from the experience of the
experienced. They know exactly what the requirements of the managers in those companies
are, and they train you exactly for those. You work on same software, same templates and
same large data files. You get all the skills, tools, knowledge and experience to work at any
position from junior to senior level. This is a very effective program and gets you guaranteed
interview calls.
We have trained and helped in placing many qualified, CPA, CGAs, CMAs, Graduates from
Schulich, Western University and UFT. We also have trained and helped in placing non
Accounting background candidates as well who are now very well settled.
Program Outline
Microsoft Excel
Excel Advanced skills are assumed in any jobs in Accounting and Finance. 90% of the work is
Excel based. You need Advanced Excel modeling skills. Knowing just the tools like vlookup,
Pivot, macros is not enough. We start from the very basic level and assume you have no Excel
knowledge and take you to advanced modeling skills. Excel outline covered in SFA course is as
follows.
Excel Beginners Level 1
Excel Intermediate Level 2
Excel Advanced Level 3
Excel Modeling in practical scenario, office projects, complex models and reports.

2. SAP FI & CO MODULE & BI
To work as an Analyst or to work in Accounting and Finance field, you need experience in one
major ERP. We cover SAP FI & CO modules.
Since reports in ERPs are very limited in scope, you need one Reporting tool to modify your
data for top management for effective decision making. We cover BI (Business Intelligence),
which is a very powerful and most used with SAP.
We cover the following in SFA course:
SAP FI (Financial Information)
● General Ledger
● Accounts Payable
● Accounts Receivable
● Assets
SAP CO (Controlling)
● Cost Element Reporting
● Cost Center Reporting
● Profit Center
● Profitability Analysis
● Internal Orders including Projects
BI (Business Intelligence)
● Concept of Database
● What is BI and similar tools
● Using BI queries to update reports
● Using BI features
Financial Analyst Practical
Month End Activities
● Accruals
● Prepayments
● Bad debt
● Reconciliation
● Revenue Recognition
● Intercompany Reconciliation
● Head Count Reports
● Fixed Assets Continuity Schedules
● Allocation of cost, Shared services cost
● Allocation of salaries based on FTE
● Foreign currency transactions
● Projects, Internal orders, settlement
Variance Analysis
● Price / Volume variance

3. ● Primary and secondary drivers
● Cost center analysis
● Risk & Opportunity vs Timing
● GM Analysis
Monthly Management Reporting
● Flash Reports
● Dashboard
● Scorecard
● MBR ( Financial Deck)
● KPI Reports
● MD&A Report
● Rolling Cash Flow Forecast
Budgeting, Planning LE & Forecasting
● Cost Center Planning
● Capital Planning
● GM Planning
● Forecasting
● Latest Estimates (LE)
● Year to Go (YTG)
SOX ( Bill 198)
Role of Financial Analyst at the time of SOX implementation and in ensuring all the prescribed
controls are being observed after SOX implementation.