Finance delivers its greatest value not in the back office but alongside the business — shaping decisions, challenging assumptions, and turning numbers into insight that drives performance. This advanced programme equips finance professionals to become true business partners, moving from reporting the past to influencing the future.
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme develops the commercial, analytical, and influencing capabilities that distinguish a business partner from a scorekeeper: understanding the business, decision support, performance insight, and the soft skills to influence non-finance leaders. It integrates emerging practice in analytics-enabled and forward-looking finance.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise the finance business partnering model
- Move from scorekeeping to business partnering
- Understand the business and its value drivers
- Build commercial acumen
- Provide insightful decision support
- Translate data into actionable insight
- Challenge and influence business leaders
- Build trusted business relationships
- Communicate finance to non-finance audiences
- Support strategic and operational decisions
- Drive performance through insight
- Apply scenario and sensitivity thinking
- Use analytics and visualisation for partnering
- Balance partnering with stewardship
- Build a business partnering finance team
- Anticipate emerging trends in business partnering
Course Outline
- Module 1: The Finance Business Partnering Model
- Module 2: From Scorekeeping to Partnering
- Module 3: Understanding the Business & Value Drivers
- Module 4: Building Commercial Acumen
- Module 5: Insightful Decision Support
- Module 6: Turning Data into Insight
- Module 7: Challenging & Influencing Leaders
- Module 8: Building Trusted Relationships
- Module 9: Communicating Finance to Non-Finance
- Module 10: Supporting Strategic & Operational Decisions
- Module 11: Driving Performance Through Insight
- Module 12: Scenario & Sensitivity Thinking
- Module 13: Analytics & Visualisation for Partnering
- Module 14: Balancing Partnering with Stewardship
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Business Partnering
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for finance managers, business partners, FP&A professionals, controllers, and senior finance staff who work alongside the business and want to deepen their partnering impact, internationally.
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