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Finance for non-financial managers training in Pretoria equips your managers, team leaders and technical specialists to read financial statements, interrogate a budget and defend their numbers with confidence. BOTI delivers this course in-house, on-site at your premises anywhere in Pretoria — from Centurion to Hatfield to Menlyn — so your whole team is trained together, in your context, against your real reports. Call 011-882-8853 or request a quote to lock in dates.
Why Pretoria teams need this course
Pretoria — the administrative capital and the heart of the City of Tshwane — runs on managers who control budgets but were never trained to read the financial side of them. National departments, state-owned entities, regulators, universities and the contractors and consultancies that serve them all employ programme managers, engineers, project leads and HODs who sign off on spend, manage cost centres and answer to auditors — yet often have no formal grounding in finance.
That is exactly the gap this course closes. In a public-sector and SOE environment where the Auditor-General, PFMA compliance, supply-chain scrutiny and clean-audit pressure are everyday realities, a manager who cannot read a financial statement or explain a variance is a liability. We train your people to hold their own in budget meetings, audit queries and board reporting.
Demand in Tshwane is driven by:
- Government departments — national and provincial offices concentrated in the Pretoria CBD, Arcadia and Hatfield, where programme and corporate-services managers carry real budget accountability.
- State-owned entities and agencies — head offices and regulators across Centurion and the wider metro that need non-financial managers who understand cost, capital and reporting.
- The Tshwane public-sector hub — the consultancies, contractors, professional bodies and service providers in Menlyn and Centurion that work alongside government and must speak the same financial language.
In-house, on-site delivery across Pretoria
This is delivered as closed in-house training for your team — not a public seminar. Our facilitator comes to you, which works particularly well across Pretoria’s spread-out business nodes:
- Centurion — convenient for SOE head offices, tech and engineering firms, and businesses along the N1 corridor between Pretoria and Johannesburg.
- Hatfield — ideal for departments, embassies, universities and the professional services clustered around the academic and diplomatic precinct.
- Menlyn — strong for the corporate offices, financial services and consultancies in Menlyn Maine and the surrounding commercial belt.
We train at your premises, on your boardroom table, using examples drawn from your sector. If on-site is not practical — for example, a team split across several Tshwane offices — we also run the course live online, so remote and head-office staff can attend the same session.
On-site vs at a venue: On-site (the usual choice) means we deliver at your offices on dates you set, with no travel or venue cost for your staff. If you would rather get people out of the office, your team can attend at BOTI’s venue in Sunningdale, Johannesburg instead. Either way the content is identical — only the location changes.
What the course teaches
The programme demystifies finance for people who manage money without a finance background. It covers:
- The core financial statements — reading and interpreting the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
- Budgeting and forecasting — building, managing and defending a budget; understanding variances and what drives them.
- Costing and cost management — fixed vs variable costs, cost behaviour, and controlling a cost centre.
- Financial ratios and analysis — the key indicators that show whether a unit, project or organisation is healthy.
- Working capital and cash flow — why profit and cash are not the same thing.
- Decision-making with numbers — using financial information to justify spend, evaluate options and report up the chain.
Throughout, the language is plain and the examples are practical, so a manager leaves able to use the numbers — not just nod along in the meeting.
Who should attend
The course is built for people who hold budget or operational responsibility without a financial qualification, including:
- Programme, project and operations managers in government and SOEs
- Engineers, technical specialists and HODs who run cost centres
- Team leaders and supervisors stepping up into management
- Corporate-services, HR, procurement and administration staff who deal with budgets
- Business owners and managers in the firms that supply the public sector
If your people approve spend, manage a budget or answer audit questions, this course is for them.
Accreditation
This is a practical, facilitator-led skills programme; delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance (this is not an accredited qualification). It is designed to build immediately usable financial confidence for your managers rather than to award a unit-standard credit. Need accredited training? Ask about BOTI’s SETA-accredited Generic Management and Management qualifications, which carry formal credits and can sit alongside this course in your team’s development plan.
Funding: Skills Development budget and BBBEE points
For Tshwane employers, this training does double duty on the funding side:
- Skills Development Levy (SDL): Employers with a payroll above the threshold pay the SDL, calculated at 1% of payroll[1]. If your Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report are submitted to your SETA by 30 April and your levies are up to date, the SETA pays back a mandatory grant of 20% of the levies you paid[2], which helps offset the cost of training your own team.
- BBBEE skills development: On the B-BBEE scorecard, the skills-development target is 6% of the leviable amount[3]. Training your staff can count towards that element, subject to the rules of the Codes — valuable for any business tendering for government and SOE work in Pretoria, where a strong B-BBEE rating is often decisive.
This makes finance training for your managers a budgeted, scorecard-positive investment rather than a discretionary expense. (This is general guidance, not financial or legal advice — confirm specifics with your SDF or B-BBEE consultant.)
Book Pretoria in-house training
Tell us your team size, your preferred Pretoria location (Centurion, Hatfield, Menlyn or your own offices) and your dates, and we will put together a quote.
Request a quote for your Pretoria in-house training — call 011-882-8853 or send an enquiry. You can also ask BOTI to help you prepare a short list of finance terms every manager should know, to share with your team before the session.
Related pages
- National course pillar: Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- Same course, other cities: Finance for Non-Financial Managers training in Johannesburg · Finance for Non-Financial Managers training in Cape Town
- Booking: Request a quote / callback
Frequently asked questions
Do you deliver Finance for Non-Financial Managers training on-site in Pretoria?
Yes. We deliver this course in-house at your premises anywhere in Pretoria and Tshwane, including Centurion, Hatfield and Menlyn. Our facilitator comes to you on dates you choose, and there is no venue cost for your staff.
How many people do we need to run an in-house session?
In-house training is most cost-effective for a group, since you pay for the session rather than per public seat. Tell us your team size and we will recommend the best format and give you a per-group quote.
Can this training be funded through our Skills Development budget?
Partly. As an employer paying the 1% SDL[1], you can claim back a mandatory grant of 20% of the levies paid when your WSP/ATR is submitted by 30 April and your levies are up to date[2]. Accredited training also contributes to the skills-development element of your B-BBEE scorecard, where the target is 6% of the leviable amount[3].
Is the course accredited?
No — this is a practical, facilitator-led skills programme, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance rather than an accredited qualification. If you need accredited training, ask us about BOTI’s SETA-accredited Generic Management and Management qualifications, which carry formal credits.
Can staff in different Tshwane offices attend together?
Yes. We can run the course on-site at one location, or deliver it live online so head-office and remote staff across Tshwane join the same session.
Sources
- Skills Development Levy – South African Revenue Service (SARS), 2026.
- Mandatory Grants – Health and Welfare SETA (HWSETA), 2026.
- Codes of Good Practice on B-BBEE: Code Series 300, Statement 300 – Skills Development (Government Gazette 42496) – Department of Trade and Industry, 31 May 2019.