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Cybersecurity for Finance Teams

Attackers do not break into the finance department, they get invited in. Finance holds the payment rails, the vendor master file and the authority to move money, which makes it the highest-value target in most organisations and the one least likely to be trained on anything beyond a generic awareness video. This programme is written for that team specifically: the fraud typologies aimed at them, the controls that actually interrupt those frauds, and the design flaws in approval workflows that attackers rely on.

Programme Agenda

Why Finance Is the Target

Mapping what the department controls that is worth stealing: payment initiation, vendor bank details, payroll records, tax data and the credentials that reach the banking portal. Where each one is exposed.

Payment Fraud Typologies

Invoice redirection, false supplier onboarding, duplicate invoicing, payroll diversion, and mandate fraud. Each shown with the paperwork an attacker produces to make it look routine.

Vendor Master Data as a Control Point

Most losses trace back to a change in a supplier record. Who can create and amend a vendor, what evidence is required, dual authorisation, and the periodic review that catches what slipped through.

Designing Approvals That Cannot Be Rushed

Thresholds, dual approval, and the exception path everyone uses when the managing director is travelling. Building a process that stays firm under time pressure rather than one that quietly bends.

Segregation of Duties in a Small Team

The honest version for departments of three people. Where segregation is achievable, where compensating controls have to substitute, and how to document the reasoning for an auditor.

Banking Portals, Tokens and Access Hygiene

Shared credentials, dormant user accounts, token custody, and what happens to access when a finance officer resigns. The access review that takes an hour a quarter.

Data Handling and PDPA Duties in Finance

Payroll files, bank details and identification documents sit under the Personal Data Protection Act. Retention limits, sharing with third parties, and the 72-hour notification duty if the department is breached.

Case Clinic: Your Own Near Misses

Participants bring incidents and close calls from their own operations. The group works each one against the control framework from the day and identifies the specific gap that allowed it.

Learning Outcomes:
Identify which finance assets and processes an attacker is actually targeting
Recognise the main payment fraud typologies from the documents they arrive with
Apply controls to vendor master data creation and amendment
Design an approval workflow that holds under urgency and absence
Apply workable segregation of duties, or defensible compensating controls, in a small team
Run a quarterly access review across banking portals and finance systems
Meet PDPA obligations for the personal data finance holds

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: All levels
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Finance managers, financial controllers, accounts payable and receivable staff, treasury, payroll officers and internal audit. Company directors with financial oversight also attend.

A fraud course covers internal fraud broadly, from asset misappropriation to financial statement manipulation. This programme concentrates on externally driven attacks that use email and social engineering to make the finance team execute the fraud on the attacker's behalf, and on the process controls that stop them.

It helps but is not required. The controls covered are finance process controls rather than technical ones. Where a topic depends on a system setting, the session identifies the request finance should make of IT.

Yes. For in-house delivery we review your payment approval thresholds, vendor onboarding process and banking arrangements beforehand, and build the exercises around them.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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