Executive Diploma in Financial Strategy

Overview

A rigorous modular diploma covering advanced corporate finance, capital allocation, treasury strategy, and financial risk governance. Assessed through a capstone case defended before Oxford SBM industry experts.

Objectives

• Master capital structure and allocation frameworks
• Lead through inflation, currency, and liquidity cycles
• Engage confidently with rating agencies and investors
• Structure financing for growth, M&A, and restructuring

Learning outcomes

• Author a capital strategy for a real enterprise
• Present a financing case to a simulated investment committee
• Chair an enterprise risk and treasury review
• Interpret and challenge sell-side and rating-agency analysis

Target audience

• CFOs, Deputy CFOs, and finance directors
• General executives with material P&L responsibility
• Corporate finance and treasury professionals

Programme modules

1. 01Financial judgement for leaders

   3 weeks

   Reading statements as an owner rather than a reporter.

2. 02Capital allocation

   3 weeks

   Where returns actually come from, and how portfolios are pruned.

3. 03Valuation and investment cases

   3 weeks

   Building and challenging business cases that survive the board.

4. 04Risk, treasury and resilience

   3 weeks

   Liquidity, currency and covenant discipline in volatile conditions.

Lead instructors

Dr. Adekunle Bello and senior CFO practitioners

Certification

Executive Diploma in Financial Strategy (accredited)