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Description

Accounting Team Leader: Organising, Securing and Leading Your Team

Moving from producing the accounts to leading a team and managing a close calendar

  • 0.43 days — 3 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

The strongest technician is promoted to team leader and discovers an entirely different role: allocating workload, holding a close calendar, responding to auditors and balancing urgency against reliability. Production reflexes are no longer enough, and the first months are often spent doing personally what the team should be handling.

This three-hour session addresses taking up the role: diagnosing the existing organisation, allocating the work, setting up control points and adopting the right posture with the team and with management. Participants build the plan for their first weeks.

Learning objectives

  • Produce a diagnosis of the accounting organisation you have inherited
  • Allocate the work and build a close calendar that can realistically be held
  • Set up control points on sensitive accounts
  • Conduct a performance correction discussion with a team member
  • Report on accounting work to management and to auditors

What makes this programme different

A role take-up plan drafted during the session
A close calendar template with milestones and named owners
Supervision role-plays specific to an accounting environment

Programme

1Diagnose before you change

Understanding the organisation you inherit

  • Map the tasks and the way they are currently allocated
  • Identify the accounts and processes that carry risk
  • Measure the department's dependence on one key person
  • Pinpoint the frustrations voiced by the team

2Organise the production work

Holding the calendar without doing everything yourself

  • Build the close calendar and its milestones
  • Delegate a task while specifying the level of control expected
  • Introduce periodic account reviews
  • Document procedures to cover absences safely

3Hold your position as team leader

With the team and with management

  • Set out your operating framework in the first few weeks
  • Conduct a corrective discussion about a repeated error
  • Respond to requests from auditors and from management
  • Balance meeting the deadline against the reliability of the accounts

Who is it for

Experienced accountants recently appointed as team leaders, along with group leaders and deputies who are due to supervise an accounting function.

Prerequisites

Experience of accounting production work and of period-end close activities.

Dates & locations

12 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.