GoFast.Finance/BC-LONG-01: (Re-)Design your System End-to-End

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[Framework] (Re-)Design your System End-to-End

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  • 12 Lessons

Rebuild your planning engine: cadence, templates, models, and KPIs. Reduce friction, improve consistency, and support decisions across entities.

🧠 Systems view: See cycles as one system and pinpoint where work explodes.

🤝 Shared standards: Align teams on calendar, templates, and KPIs to reduce friction.

🏢 Faster decisions: Reduce manual work so leadership time shifts from templates to tradeoffs.

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Who this is for

Business unit controller and FP&A manager redesigning planning cycles, templates, and standards across multiple scopes and stakeholders.

Head of controlling and finance director defining planning standards and tool requirements at regional or group level.

Prerequisites

Knowledge: Several years owning budgets, outlooks, or performance reviews beyond one small scope.

Tools: Access to current calendars, templates, KPIs, and planning or reporting tools used in your scope.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Diagnose cycle noise and failure points across planning loops.

  2. Design an integrated calendar and standards for all cycles.

  3. Define tool and data requirements that reduce manual work.

  4. Build a realistic roadmap to redesign templates and governance.

CPE Information

  • Eligibility: currently not eligible

  • Watch time: about 4 hours

  • Total learning: about 6 hours

  • Estimated credits: 4.0

Contents

Module 1: Diagnose the current system

Lesson 1: Map cycles, outputs, and decisions
Lesson 2: Quantify workload and manual work
Lesson 3: Diagnose failure points and root causes

Module 2: Design the integrated calendar

Lesson 4: Redesign the annual calendar across loops
Lesson 5: Set cadences, lead times, and depth rules
Lesson 6: Redesign forums and interfaces for decisions

Module 3: Standards, templates, KPIs

Lesson 7: Define standards and guardrails
Lesson 8: Redesign templates to cut noise
Lesson 9: Define KPIs and driver logic

Module 4: Tools, data, governance, roadmap

Lesson 10: Define tool and data requirements
Lesson 11: Redesign governance and ownership
Lesson 12: Build a realistic redesign roadmap