Controlling 4.0
Develop your career as a Controller 4.0 through integrated business management
Today, more than ever, companies need Controllers who combine financial expertise with mastery of the latest technologies. Uncertainty, innovation, and new leadership models demand a strategic approach to profitability that brings real value to management and supports emerging business models.
That’s why companies need Controllers who are strong in finance and updated with the latest technology to ensure profitability and support new business models.
In this hands-on course, you will learn to integrate the financial, technological, and organizational tools that businesses require today.
From day one, you will work on a personal project so you can apply it to your daily work upon completion.
With no overwhelming workload, but with a reflective and transformative approach, you’ll be prepared to become the Controller companies need in this ever-changing environment.
This is your moment to lead business profitability!
What will you achieve?
The teaching team, made up of professionals from the different areas of the Controlling 4.0 program, will drive your learning. Through online self-study, case studies, and theoretical classes, you will achieve:
Business profitability
You will be able to help your company improve profitability in an environment of innovation, digitalization, uncertainty, and continuous change.
New business models
You will acquire essential knowledge to actively contribute to new business models.
New financial trends
You will explore new financial trends: Fintech, non-financial information, decentralized finance.
Professional development
You will be able to apply your personalized improvement plan, optimize the management control area, and remove obstacles.
Who is it for?
Professionals in the economic-financial field who are involved in management control and wish to broaden their knowledge in adjacent areas of the business to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their role. Experienced professionals in financial accounting who are interested in going beyond traditional roles to support management through the insights provided by managerial accounting. Controllers who want to align their skills with the demands of Industry 4.0 by gaining a 360º perspective of the organization.
Where can you work?
In economic-financial departments of companies of any size — large, medium, or small. In startups or professional firms offering outsourced controlling services, consultancies, and auditing firms. The Controller role is one of the most in-demand in the financial sector. The 4.0 update opens doors to work with innovation teams, tech companies, and businesses embracing new leadership and business models.
Over 30 years leading financial education
Learnability
We promote, facilitate, and enhance your ability to learn quickly and effectively. We adapt to new situations and maintain a continuous improvement mindset.
Employability
We develop the skills and competencies to obtain, maintain, and enhance your professional profile in a competitive and ever-changing market
Glocality
We combine global and local perspectives in a more connected environment to foster collaboration and commitment in solving challenges.
A curriculum designed to deepen your expertise in controlling
On-site and streaming sessions
- Applied theory
- Practical case studies
- Individual and group assignments
- The world we work in: where companies stand and where we are headed. Industry 4.0, 5.0. Decentralized finance. Global, European, and national goals
- What is management control? Origins and evolution
- Management control vs. internal control
- Controlling by company size: startups, SMEs, international corporations
- The role of the controller
- Our challenge: helping the company become more profitable in a constantly evolving environment
- MONTHLY ACCOUNTING CLOSING
- Intelligent economic management: introduction to key factors for accessing essential decision-making information
- How are we doing? Monthly accounting close
- The importance of record-keeping: accounting principles and tech solutions
- Managing deadlines and task tracking: the closing checklist
- AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT
- Technology basics: importance of data quality and uniqueness, cybersecurity, infrastructures
- Comprehensive business management: ERP
- Integrated systems: API usage and requirements
- Migrations: planning, data integrity, verification processes
- Where do we want to go? Budgeting and variance analysis
- Budgeting as a key leadership tool: fundamentals for building a budget that supports decision-making
- Sales, cost, expense, and investment budgets
- Finalizing the annual budget: negotiations and formalization
- The star of the show: variance analysis
- Strategy, key success factors, and KPIs, indicators, and metrics
- Strategic plan, viability, and business plan
- Financial plan and funding search
- Understanding how profitability is generated: introduction to cost accounting
- Cost concepts and types
- Cost systems
- The importance of business model and strategy in defining the cost structure
- Contribution margin and break-even point
- Sales price calculation. Proyectea case study
- Gross margin control
- Analytical income statement
- Profitability of innovation
- Foundations of short-, medium-, and long-term treasury management
- Importance of accurate recordkeeping and forecasting by timeframe
- Automated treasury management
- Financing tools
- Banking solutions
- Private investment
- Introduction to Fintech
- Changing the business model
- The company as a driver of wealth creation in a human-centric society: leadership, collaboration, communication, training, and professional growth
- Internal control and technology
- Work procedures
- Compliance: more than just shielding the company from liability
- UNDERSTANDING HOW TO SELL IN ORDER TO SELL MORE AND BETTER
- What does it mean to sell?
- Who are we selling to? Portfolio analysis and segmentation
- Sales management: process indicators
- Sales process analysis and measurement
- How solid financial and business information supports the sales process
- 4.0 Solutions: robotics, facial recognition, artificial intelligence, big data…
- Examples of application in business analysis and efficiency
- Artificial Intelligence applied to business
- DECENTRALIZED FINANCE
- Introduction to Blockchain
- DeFi: the decentralization of finance
- Cryptocurrencies
- Smart Contracts
- NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION
- Measuring sustainability
- Equality
- B Corp companies
- Executive commitment, procedures, and change management
- Practical cases presented by students
Learn from a faculty of active professionals
CEO & Founder Partner of ToGrowfy. She helps restless CEOs drive their businesses through Smart Economic Management—making accurate decisions based on complete, reliable, and timely information.
She holds a Law degree from Universidad de Barcelona, PADE from IESE Universidad de Navarra, a diploma in Management Control from EADA, Learning to Grow from IESE-BCN Activa, Innovation Program: From Idea to Launch at IESE, and B2B Management from ESADE.
A professional with 30 years of experience in Controlling and Financial Management positions in international companies, with a background in external and internal auditing. She is currently CEO of ToGrowfy, leading a team of professionals dedicated to supporting growing companies in economic-financial, tax, and legal areas. Her expertise and practice areas include economic management, process organization, digital transformation and innovation, and business strategy.
Entrepreneur, businesswoman, company advisor, and mentor of entrepreneurial projects. She is a consultant for ACCIÓ, member of WeRock Capital, member of the Barcelona Economic Circle, master’s professor, speaker, and author of “Three Questions for Smart Economic Management” published by Ed. Libros de Cabecera.
In-person with all the flexibility you need
Program details
- 2 months
- Spanish
- 7 sessions (Mondays 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
- Clases presenciales
- Clases en streaming
- Autoestudio online
- University degree
- 2100€
