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Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals
Executive certificate programme Non-Financial Professionals in International Business Finance
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Identify and communicate sources of value creation
The Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals is designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of financial analysis, help you understand key economic issues and identify sources of value creation.
Discover the strategic aspects of managerial finance and performance management. With its emphasis on practical relevance, this course will help you make informed decisions and make a significant contribution to your company’s financial success.
The Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals at NEOMA is designed for those who want to understand international business finance without a finance background. This programme focuses on key financial concepts such as budgeting, performance analysis, and decision-making. You will learn how to interpret financial data, support strategic choices, and communicate effectively with finance teams. By making finance accessible and practical, this certificate helps professionals strengthen their business impact in international environments.
Explore and master Managerial Finance
Add a new string to your bow with the Executive Finance for Non-Financial Professionals Certificate. This programme allows you to complement or develop your skills in Finance. It will enable you to update your knowledge, thereby strengthening your position and value in the professional market.
5 reasons to join the programme
Understand the economic and financial landscape and its social and environmental challenges
Communicate a message from financial figures
Measure the impact of financial decisions on value creation
Learn to identify and anticipate business opportunities
Samia BELAOUNIA
Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School
This programme will give you a real grasp of the financial tools needed to effectively and responsibly manage value creation. This is more necessary than ever in a constantly changing technological and regulatory environment.
NEOMA Business School is Qualiopi certified for the following categories of actions:
- Training activities
- Apprenticeship training
- Actions enabling the validation of acquired experience
International business finance focuses on managing financial operations, investments, and risks across global markets, helping companies make strategic decisions internationally.
Understanding finance helps professionals make better decisions, manage budgets, and collaborate effectively with finance teams in international business environments.
You develop skills in financial analysis, budgeting, performance evaluation, and interpreting financial data to support business decisions.
The Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals at NEOMA is designed to make international business finance accessible and practical. This programme helps professionals understand key financial concepts such as budgeting, performance analysis, and financial decision-making in global contexts. It enables participants to interpret financial data, support strategic decisions, and collaborate effectively with finance teams. By bridging the gap between finance and business, this certificate strengthens decision-making and enhances professional impact in international environments.
The Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals is designed for any employee seeking to understand economic performance and its impact on their company’s growth strategy. This programme provides practical, actionable tools for analysing and communicating the key figures in financial documents.
The economic and financial landscape
Explore the main socio-economic issues in a complex world in transition, so that you can make the necessary strategic adjustments.
Financial analysis and assessment
Get to the heart of the issue using KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) derived from a company’s financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash-flow statement). This information will allow you to communicate on the drivers of operational performance and the profitability of investments, while mapping the main sources of risk (liquidity and credit).
Value creation
Identify the strategic choices for managing your business, investments and financing to create lasting value for all your stakeholders. Activate operational and financial levers to boost your company’s growth and competitiveness.
Driving performance
Understand the strategic fundamentals of management control to optimise margins, economic and financial performance and minimise risk. With dynamic, agile management, you can quickly adjust your strategy in response to economic, environmental and digital changes.
Budget processes
Master the budget process, including the key stages of planning, allocating financial resources, setting realistic financial targets and monitoring performance. This will enable you to assess a company’s stability and ability to achieve its long-term objectives, and to communicate clearly with various stakeholders.
Please note: The Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals is a skills block included in the General Management Programme (GMP). The GMP is a 10-month course (three days a month) consisting of five skill blocks focused on positive leadership, innovation culture and managerial best practice.
By joining the GMP, you can complete your Negotiation & Business Development Certificate to obtain the RNCP Level 6 qualification “Business Unit Management and Development Manager”.
Evaluation methods
Participants are assessed in the following ways:
Written and oral assessment:
- Role-playing exercises
- Case studies
How to apply?
For more information on how to apply for the Executive Finance Certificate for Non-Financial Professionals, please contact our recruitment team.
If you are working, changing careers or looking for work, you may finance all or part of the Finance Strategy Certificate (already registered in the RNCP Répertoire national des certifications professionnelles) using your Compte personnel de formation (CPF). Your CPF may be supplemented by your employer and/or Pôle Emploi if you are unemployed.
For more information moncompteformation.gouv.fr/espace-prive.
The selection process is performed throughout the year. There is about a two-week interval between the applicant’s first step in the application process and the response from the selection jury. Note: we ask you to prepare your application by sending your CV beforehand to Ivana TEIXEIRA via ivana.teixeira@neoma-bs.fr.
A learning approach designed for professionals
NEOMA Business School’s Executive Education programmes are built around a learning model designed to accommodate the schedules and commitments of working professionals.
Depending on the programme, teaching is delivered on campus, online or through a blended format. Learning activities combine opportunities for interaction with faculty members, guest lecturers and fellow participants, live virtual classes*, and self-paced learning activities completed between sessions**. These activities form an integral part of the programme and support the progressive development of skills and competencies.
Participants also have access to a dedicated online learning platform. This brings together course materials, learning resources and preparatory readings, programme schedules, practical information, assignment submissions and access to virtual classes. Depending on the programme, the platform may be Exceed or another online learning environment.
*Synchronous virtual class: Participants attend a live online session with the lecturer.
**Asynchronous learning activity: Participants complete learning activities at their own pace, within the specified timeframe.
The teaching teams select the most appropriate methods to meet the objectives of each programme. Learning activities may include:
- Case studies
- Individual or collaborative projects
- Fieldwork
- Interactive digital resources
- E-learning modules developed by NEOMA Business School, as well as internationally recognised academic resources
To encourage discussion, practical exercises and the sharing of experiences during sessions, some courses also invite participants to review learning materials in advance.
This approach provides the flexibility needed to develop new skills while balancing studies with professional and personal commitments.
To participate effectively in online learning activities and virtual classes, participants must have access to a computer or tablet equipped with a microphone and camera, as well as a stable internet connection.
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Our dedicated point of contact for personalised advice and support.
Practical information
Programme format:
Hybrid: Paris
On-site: Reims or Rouen
Programme duration:
Paris: 29 hours spread over 5 weeks
Reims or Rouen: 6 days (3 days in February and 3 days in March)
Tuition & fees:
€2,500 net of tax – Eligible for the Compte personnel de formation (CPF)
Location:
Reims, Rouen, Paris
Language of instruction:
French
Next intake date:
10 March 2027
Entry requirements:
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Open to candidates with a Level 5 qualification (Bac+2) or at least five years of professional experience.
- An exemption may be granted following a thorough review of the application.
Degree awarded:
Certificate eligible for the CPF: Validation of skills block 2/RNCP level 6 title Fiche RNCP N°37655 Business unit management and development manager
Registration date: 31/05/2023 - NEOMA
