Finance Business Partner: typically a finance professional aligned to a business unit and responsible for operating as a strategic partner and member of the senior management team.
Their remit is to enhance the quality of business decision-making, develop financial competence and support and challenge the team.
The partner understands business drivers and manages key stakeholder relationships to ensure business needs and service requirements are met, and will also work closely with colleagues across the Finance community to input into wider financial strategy.
Whilst the job title of Finance Business Partner is increasingly popular, it is not used universally, with some organisations preferring to retain traditional job titles, such as Finance Manager and Financial Controller. The job title, however, is secondary to the key purpose of the role, which is about the transition from financial analyst or relationship manager to strategic partner
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Delivered in a variety of formats such as face-to-face workshops; elearning packages, videos, webinars, toolkits, action learning sets
Tailored to meet the needs of your organisation
Bespoke to meet the development needs for all roles within Finance
This workshop is aimed at Finance Management Teams or areas within Finance, who want to develop their understanding of what it means to work in a partnering approach. Full of hints, tips and tools and external research and references it will enable senior teams to review the effectiveness of Finance and plan on how to take the team to the next level.
This workshop gives clarity on the demands of the role of the Finance Business Partner, what is means in practice, competencies required and the blue print for success. It is very much a foundation workshop for new Finance Business Partners, or those requiring some practical skills, tools and advice to move forward in the role.
This workshop develops the key competencies of strategic awareness, strategic influence and strategic thinking. Content includes the role of Finance in developing and influencing strategy, strategic mindset and the opportunities to contribute. It includes a set of strategic tools to support and build strategic influence with the business as well as practical case studies and implementation plans.
This two-day workshop develops the first-class consulting skills that Finance Professionals need to work effectively with the Business. It combines the internal consultancy process with the skills required and helpful tools. Content includes, how to contract and engage with business customers, diagnose and identify issues and opportunities, galvanise resources and deliver and evaluate results.
Gain full benefits from your Shared Services.
This workshop will help you to address the
key issues in setting up and running a Shared
Service Centre and develop a clear path of
action to ensure success.
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This practical workshop is designed as an introduction to lean Finance. Lean Finance seeks to radically restructure into 'value streams' with the aim of streamlining processes and removing wasteful activity to improve efficiency, improve customer service and add value.
Communication and Influencing are foundation skills for effective business partnering. Finance Business Partners and Finance Professionals need to forge positive productive relationships within the function and with business customers. Their ability to influence senior managers and teams, using a range of skills and techniques will directly support their ability to build credibility, add value and make a difference.
Add coaching skills to your Finance toolkit and further enhance your consultancy capability. This workshop will help you to use coaching techniques to help business managers and tem members to solve more of their own issues and problems, whilst increasing your own personal credibility.
When there is a need for a cost-effective intensive solution for Finance Business Partners to establish themselves in the role this workshop is ideal. We draw from several of the other workshops - Developing, Relationship Management, Consultancy and Strategic Influencing to give an overview of the role, develop key skills and provide a practical toolkit to fast track success.
This workshop can be tailored for anyone within
the organisation who needs to hold difficult
conversations with their stakeholders, whether
they are operating as consultants, managers or
service providers. It is highly interactive, makes
use of actors, forum theatre and role play, with
helpful feedback being provided to participants
to further improve the effectiveness of their
conversations and discussions.
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This highly participative workshop provides
an overview of fraud risk, the types of fraud,
and the steps an organisation should put into place to protect itself
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"I found the course extremely useful and a thorough exploration of the BP concept. The training material is top quality" Rodney Semple, Gloucestershire County Council"
