Sally Farrant
Category Finance
I help sports organisations improve confidence and competence in financial concepts through training, workshops, coaching and done for you consultancy
About
I help sports organisations improve confidence and competence in financial concepts through training, workshops, coaching and done for you consultancy
Sports organisations are often under immense budget scrutiny and making sure managers at all levels and the leadership team are able to understand, challenge and be challenged about the numbers in the organisations are critical.
Having managers that can understand and communicate around financial information in an organisation means that they are able to:
- Allocate the company’s resources wisely
- Spending is thought through and not “off the cuff”
- Have the confidence to present robust business cases with financial information at the heart of it
- Manage the company’s cash so that it is being effectively managed to reduce borrowings or maximise interest
- Understand and have confidence in budgeting and forecasting, including cash flow
As a trainer for non-financial managers, I help organisations understand how to make financial matters simpler and more accessible to more levels of the organisation. With over 25 years of experience as a qualified accountant working within businesses, I understand how large organisations manage their finances and how to present them to leadership.
Specialisms
- Making accounting and finance clear and jargon free
- Training in accounting for non accountants
- Coaching in understanding and presenting financial information for leadership teams
- Financial modelling and forecasting
- Budgeting including cash flow
Services
- Introduction to finance for non-financial managers – half day workshop covering the basics, including jargon, profit vs cash, budgets and forecasts, business cases and buying decisions to improve confidence in financial matters
- Full day training for leadership teams, covering all aspects of finance on the board, including cash flow forecasting, strategic financial management, 5 year planning and benchmarking company performance for strong financial foundations in the organisation.
- Coaching individuals over 6-12 weeks in financial understanding within an organisation, building confidence and capability in financial matters
- Project work around finance systems and processes best practice on a consultancy basis to improve the efficiency of a finance team
- Financial modelling, profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet for investment or to provide clarity around projections for a business
Case studies
Sally’s training makes things very clear. She is great at explaining things well without jargon or fuss. I now have a great template for business cases and will be focusing much more on the financials when I next submit one.
I understand how accounting works now, and it’s not as complicated as I thought Working with Sally has made our finances so much clearer. Before, we had no sense of which products were making us money and how each division was performing. We now have monthly reports showing us what we need to know.
We have also worked with Sally to product a budget so we know what we need to do each month in terms of sales and now have a growth plan.
