Financial Modeling on Excel Complete finance course on Excel

Are you aiming for a career in finance? Whether your goal is Private Equity, M&A, financial controlling, or financial management, mastering financial modeling is absolutely essential. It's the foundational skill across all these finance careers.

What is Financial Modeling?

Financial modeling is the cornerstone of corporate finance. It's used for critical tasks like developing business plans, generating insightful Excel reports, and accurately valuing companies. Building reliable and well-structured financial models is therefore paramount for success in corporate finance.

Why is Financial Modeling so Important?

Many finance job interviews include technical cases on Excel to assess candidates' financial modeling abilities. In these assessments, employers provide a computer and instructions, evaluating who can effectively build a model within a limited timeframe (30 minutes to an hour). This quickly identifies the top talent in financial modeling.

Comprehensive Excel Finance Course

This in-depth finance course on Excel equips you with the knowledge, techniques, and best practices to create clear, well-structured financial models that meet the rigorous standards of investment banks, Private Equity firms, and financial management teams.

What You'll Learn:

• Financial Modeling Standards: Understand the rules and standards for producing professional, rigorous, optimized, and error-free financial model outputs.
• Complete Model Design: Learn to design a comprehensive financial model with various investment and development scenarios.
• Debt Schedules: Create detailed debt schedules with multiple financing tranches.
• Sources and Uses Tables: Develop accurate Sources and Uses tables.
• Business Plan Development: Construct a clear and compelling Business Plan.
• Valuation Techniques: Perform company valuation using the transaction comparables method based on normative EBITDA.
• IRR Calculation & Analysis: Calculate and analyze IRR (Internal Rate of Return) according to investment exit parameters.

Finance Fundamentals Refresher:

If you're new to these concepts, we'll cover essential finance fundamentals before diving into financial modeling in Excel. This course revisits key areas crucial for success in financial controlling, financial analysis, and transactional careers ( PE, M&A, TS).

About Your Instructor:

Yassine, founder of a leading corporate finance training organization, has helped thousands of students and recent graduates prepare for interviews at Private Equity, investment banking, and consulting firms specializing in Transaction Services, Valuation, and Financial Restructuring.

Yassine is a former Associate in Private Equity, with two years of experience at investment funds in Paris, focusing on small-cap operations across diverse sectors like hospitality, real estate, tech, media, and renewable energy. He also served as a senior consultant in Valuation and Financial Modeling at EY, working on numerous financial models in transactional and investment projects.