Finance business partnering can make an important contribution to improving decision making and ensuring the sustainable success of business. It also widens the career opportunities for accounting and finance professionals-providing another route to senior management where it’s critical to make an impact from day one. Much like technical competencies, finance business partnering competencies are most effectively developed through formal learning and on-the- job practice. This course is designed to deliver a deeper dive into the crucial skills needed to enable finance partners to drive business success forward and fulfill their roles while taking their current finance partnering skills to the next level. Moving from influencing to business impact, focus will be on developing business partnering skills related to strategic issues facing accounting and finance functions.
Course ID: FBPI
Finance Business Partnering: Influence to Impact
Learning Objectives
- Choose the correct skills and techniques to communicate effectively and impact business decisions.
- Use and develop influencing techniques successfully.
- Apply higher level thinking and strategy.
Major Topics
• Strategic thinking • Communicating financial information effectively, including figures and charts • Influencing skills • Personal impact
Who Should Attend
Experienced professionals who would like more insight into developing skills required for finance business partnering in preparation for senior roles.
Fields of Study
Management ServicesPrerequisites
Finance Business Partnering: The Essentials (FBPB) or equivalent experience