Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
The FP&A Fundamentals Certificate is a practical, instructor led program for finance professionals looking to move beyond historical reporting and play a more strategic role in their organizations.
FP&A sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and decision making. In this program, you’ll learn how FP&A teams translate financial data into insight- supporting business leaders through planning, forecasting, modelling, and performance analysis. The focus is on how FP&A works in practice: influencing decisions, partnering with the business, and delivering forward looking insights that drive performance.
Through four interactive workshops, you’ll build core FP&A skills you can apply immediately. Whether you’re transitioning into FP&A, strengthening your business partnering capabilities, or increasing your strategic impact, this certificate provides practical tools, frameworks, and real world examples you can use right away.
You’ll leave the program able to:
• Communicate financial insights clearly and persuasively to non finance leaders.
• Build and apply financial models that support business cases and strategic decisions.
• Improve planning and forecasting processes using proven FP&A techniques.
• Act as a trusted business partner without relying on “policing” or control based approaches.
• Better understand the FP&A career path and how it differs from traditional accounting roles.
Program at a glance:
• Virtual, instructor led delivery (live over Zoom)
• Completed over two weeks
• Four 2 hour interactive workshops plus two live Q&A sessions (10 hours total)
• No homework required—focused on applied, in session learning
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Schedule
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | |
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Day 1 May 19, 2026 |
Financial Storytelling Workshop |
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Day 2 May 21, 2026 |
Business Partnering Workshop |
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Day 3 May 22, 2026 |
Q&A Session #1 |
| Week 2 | |
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Day 1 May 25, 2026 |
Financial Modeling Workshop |
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Day 2 May 27, 2026 |
Planning & Forecasting Workshop |
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Day 3 May 29, 2026 |
Q&A Session #2 |
Earn a Digital Badge
Our new collection of digital badges can be earned through the completion of any of our certificate programs offered in our professional development catalogue. Collect these digital badges to add to your website, social profiles, email signature and more. These badges are an easy way to visually communicate your skills and accomplishments to your peers and network. Digital badges will be awarded based on course completion requirements.
Who Will Benefit
Examples of professions who would benefit from this certificate include:
- Vice President of Finance
- Director of Finance
- Corporate Controller
- Financial Controller
- Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis
- Manager, Finance
- Accountants
- Finance Business Partnering Analyst
- Financial Analyst
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Attendance Requirements
To earn your CPD hours and Digital Badge you must attend all live sessions. We understand that sometimes unplanned absences happen. Please reach out to our Operations Team if you're unable to attend a session as scheduled.
How to Access the Course
This is an instructor led virtual certificate program. To ensure a smooth experience, we recommend logging in five minutes before the scheduled start time of each session.
To help you prepare, please check Blackboard at least two business days before your course starts for the Zoom link, schedule, and materials.
You can find information on registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies here.
Speaker(s)
Christian Wattig is one of the world’s leading experts in FP&A having led teams at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Squarespace. Today Christian leads the top-rated FP&A Bootcamp explicitly designed for professionals who work full-time and want to ramp up their FP&A game.