Step beyond reporting and become a true strategic Finance Business Partner. In this practical, interactive workshop, you’ll gain insight into how partnering works across organizations, identify what to stop, start, and continue, and build the behaviors that drive real influence, including contracting and soft negotiation. You’ll explore the different roles you can play, assess yourself against key finance competencies, and leave with a clear, actionable plan to strengthen your impact and elevate your team’s effectiveness.
Course ID: FBPSAA
Finance Business Partnering Skills and Activities
Learning Objectives
After completing this workshop you will:
- Recognize how Finance Business Partnering works in other organizations
- Identify activities that you should ‘stop, start and continue to do’ as a Finance Business Partner
- Use the different roles you can take as a Finance Business Partner
- Identify some of the behaviors that make a Business Partner, including contracting and soft negotiation
- Identify critical partnering activities you and your team can take to make Finance Business Partnering more effective
- Analyze yourself against your Finance Competencies
- Select an action plan to enable yourself and your team to operate more as Finance Business Partners
Major Topics
- Gain insight into how Finance Business Partnering operates across leading organizations
- Identify what to stop, start, and continue to improve your effectiveness
- Explore the key roles you can play as a strategic Finance Business Partner
- Build critical behaviours, including contracting, influencing, and soft negotiation
- Pinpoint high-impact partnering activities for you and your team
- Assess your capability against core Finance Competencies
- Leave with a clear, practical action plan to elevate your impact
Advanced Preparations
None
Who Should Attend
Those finance professionals who want to either become Finance Business Partners, to learn how to work with others in the business or in their own function, in a more ‘partnering’ way and recognize that their role is more than providing numbers.
Fields of Study
Personal DevelopmentPrerequisites
A good understanding of how Finance supports the needs of a business.