Driving superior financial performance through impactful strategies
Advanced finance and strategy expertise is an organisation’s silver bullet for success in today’s challenging and uncertain business environment. Without this unique skillset and blend of specialist tools, you could risk overlooking key opportunities, potential pitfalls and delivering sub-par results, and ultimately forfeiting your competitive edge.
The Oxford Executive Diploma in Financial Strategy is designed to sharpen your strategic and financial toolkit and equip you with the advanced approach needed to effectively navigate new business scenarios and maximise value.
Immersive, interactive, and rigorous, this part-time, master’s-level programme consists of four modules taught in person in Oxford over one year:
Strategy
Business finance
Corporate valuation
Financial strategies for growth
Upon successful completion of this diploma, you will have developed an advanced approach to strategic investment decision-making, a holistic view of how to effectively execute and evaluate business initiatives, and a refined set of practical tools to make an immediate impact in your own organisation.
Programme outlineUpon successful completion of this diploma, you will have developed an advanced approach to strategic investment decision-making, a holistic view of how to effectively execute and evaluate business initiatives, and a refined set of practical tools to make an immediate impact in your own organisation.
You and your peers will be experienced strategy and finance professionals from around the world who are looking to:
Advance their career to board level
Develop their financial acumen to support their senior strategic expertise
Sharpen their strategic approach to successfully steer new business initiatives
Launch and scale their start-ups or ventures at pace
Join a diverse cohort of experienced finance and strategy professionals, board-level executives and entrepreneurs.
This programme encourages you to think more broadly and advance your strategic approach, whilst also equipping you with the tools to do the calculations and produce the evidence that supports your strategy behind the scenes.
You and your peers will be experienced strategy and finance professionals from around the world who are looking to:
Advance their career to board level
Develop their financial acumen to support their senior strategic expertise
Sharpen their strategic approach to successfully steer new business initiatives
Launch and scale their start-ups or ventures at pace
A big benefit of the Diploma in Financial Strategy was the quality and calibre of the other students on the programme. It was such a strong group to learn from, share perspectives and have insightful discussions with.
As an Executive Diploma participant, you will benefit from a variety of unique Oxford experiences.
These include:Programme dinners with your cohort at historic Oxford colleges
An Oxford Union-style class debate
Executive Insights sessions to enrich your learning
Executive Impact workshops to help you elevate your presence
Social events such as punting, college visits and walking tours
Associate Oxford college membership
Membership of the prestigious University of Oxford alumni network and Oxford Business Alumni (OBA) Network, upon successful completion of the programme
A traditional Oxford end-of-course celebration event with family and friends
Whilst the Diploma in Financial Strategy is a stand-alone postgraduate qualification, the programme also offers a route towards the Oxford Executive MBA. Should diploma participants choose to pursue the Executive MBA, and gain a place on the programme, they will receive exemptions from four module assessments, as well as a fee reduction. Attendance will be required at all modules, regardless of assessment exemption.
Programme outlineThis accredited financial strategy diploma is designed for experienced executives, typically with an upper-second class undergraduate degree or equivalent at a minimum, and at least five years’ relevant work experience.
We welcome enquiries from potential applicants and would be very happy to discuss the programme with you in more detail.
ApplyIn each class we offer:
two Director’s Awards
two Women’s Scholarships
one Rewley Award
three Oxford Alumni Scholarships.
Funded by the generosity of an Executive Diploma alumnus, we also offer one scholarship for an exceptional African female candidate across all our diploma programmes.
ApplyThe programme fee covers tuition costs, course materials, essential reading texts, assessments and associate college membership. Lunch and refreshments are provided daily, and there is a special evening dinner with your cohort during each module.
Accommodation is not included in the fee. You should make arrangements to stay in Oxford during the modules.
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