The Finance Business Partner

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As a finance business partner, you need credibility and influence within the management team. This course looks at the finance business partner role, and how you can develop to take on this strategic role in your or your clients’ businesses

£150 +VAT

4 CPD hours

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

The Finance Business Partner

(58 customer reviews)

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

The Finance Business Partner

(58 customer reviews)

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This course will enable you to

  • Understand the role of the finance business partner and how it differs from traditional transactional and management accounting
  • Become a core part of management decision-making, using financial information to influence and shape outcomes
  • Help your business interpret the internal and external environment through good information sources so that both financial and strategic targets can be achieved
  • Identify and overcome the challenges involved with the finance function and finance business partnering
  • Understand how best to implement a successful finance business partner approach that results in an effective and respected finance business partner role

About the course

What a business needs from finance is evolving. Increasingly, back-office functions have become automated and a different role, that of the finance business partner, has emerged.

The finance business partner plays a key strategic role in a business, and, has the opportunity to become a trusted business advisor. This requires a different set of skills to the traditional finance back-office function. You will be expected to be strategic, focusing on the value of the information you provide, and extracting and correlating financial figures to help your business make relevant decisions, which are closely aligned with your strategic outcomes.

As a finance business partner, you need: to have credibility and influence within the management team, to be articulate and proactive in your approach and, most importantly, to have a thorough understanding of where your business can create value. This course explores the finance business partner role, and how you can develop your skills to become a trusted advisor in your or your clients’ businesses.

Contents

The finance business partner role

The finance business partner
How did business partnering emerge?
The role of the FBP
The traditional finance function
The benefits
The pitfalls
The reporting function
Improving reporting

Current perceptions of finance

A view of the finance function
Looking inwards
What needs to change?
Finance communications
Challenges for FBPs
The main challenges

Aligning FBP with business

The focus for FBPs
Information sources
Requirements for success
Senior management support
Business acumen
More on tools

Skills for success

Business partnering as a process
A service delivery mind set
Adding value
Valuable communications
A good FBP
Communication is key
Emotional intelligence
Influencing others
Digital transformation
The right skill set

Author

Sean Purcell accountingcpd-author

Sean Purcell

Sean Purcell (BA ACMA CGMA) has been involved in the training and development of finance staff for over 20 years. He has worked extensively with both CIMA and ACCA, designing and delivering both CPD and management development programmes for them, and has delivered over 200 courses in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Zambia and Croatia. Sean is a Visiting Executive Professor at the London School of Commerce, an award winning trainer of finance staff and an acknowledged expert on the role of Business Finance Partner.

58 reviews for The Finance Business Partner

  1. Debbie Fogarty –

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  2. Lyzann Castelino –

    Relevant information, variety of instruction – article, videos, discussion, interactive. The course made me think and consider solutions. It pointed me to other sources of information. I have some tools to help with my day-to-day work. One of the reasons I was drawn to the course is because Sean Purcell’s reputation precedes him Unfortunately this made me expect more out of the course. Some of the links did not work. I need more practical advice and tools on how to be a business partner and help the departments I work with.

  3. Jolene Stevens –

    This course was good, content was easy to understand and the duration was ideal.

  4. Diane Woollett –

    The course material was well-presented. The module was easy to navigate through. I found the subject matter interesting, and helped understand the requirements and responsibilities of a Finance Business Partner. I highly recommend this course.

  5. Raymond Fleming –

  6. Gail Steers –

    As expected

  7. Olivier Pelletier –

    nice module with good tips on how to focus as a FBP, what is expected from us and how to improve

  8. Clement Lynch –

    course was engaging and i learnt.

  9. Georgios Vlachos –

    !!!

  10. Amy Winter –

    lll

  11. Seamus Durkin –

    good content & learning

  12. Sheila McCarthy-McGroarty –

    Course was very informative

  13. Ewelina Bilinska –

    Explains the basis of FBP role and challenges linked to the role, I’d appreciate more business cases and practical examples

  14. Irene Awala –

    Very Helpful!

  15. Jing Liu –

    Good course outline current and future needs for finance function, and how to get there to be a successful FBP

  16. Claire McGettigan –

    Easy to follow. Good mixture of text, questions, video, articles to help keep things fresh.

  17. Zoltan Lang –

    Very useful, eye-opening course, it will help me to re-think and re-shape my role within the organisation.

  18. Engracia Lewis –

    I found the Finance Business partner course very interesting and useful. I think for indepth understanding, it does require more than 4 hours to complete, as there is the course element, the quiz and test element and the opportunity to type your own notes. The course can be used by middle or senior managers or those looking to progress to that next step in their career but would also be quite useful for stakeholders and those recruiting, as it gives a thorough understanding of the role of a Finance Business Partner but also has other course reading materials within the context that added value. The course was recommended via the ACCA website.

  19. Venita M.E. Farrell-Cabey –

    My expectations were met.

  20. Jose Fernandez Martin –

    Is useful but sometimes are repetitive.

  21. Devi Mahadevan Steven –

    Learnt a lot as well applied knowledge.

  22. Anna Maio-Price –

    This course provided a really good understanding of the skills needed to be an effective finance business partner, and how it differs from the more traditional transactional accountant role.

  23. Christine Kautsky –

    I found the content and various types of presentation engaging. Had some ‘aah’ points. The link to the Dan Parisi BTS “Moving from Strategy to Action” article didn’t work. I spent some time trying to find it on the BTS website but gave up.

  24. Matthew Kane-Simmons –

    good content well delivered

  25. Salman Mehdi –

    Excellent content – I strongly recommend everyone considering a role in Finance Business Partnering to take up this course.

  26. Agnieszka Russell –

    It is a good course that gives a basic understanding of FBP roles within an organisation.

  27. Ryan Dyke –

    it included some good info

  28. Tisha Holder –

    Excellent information provided on this topic

  29. Kelly Charter –

    12/24/2023

  30. Catherine Anne Coakley –

    It was good. It helped me to understand how the role is changing and why its important to continue to learn and interact more with the business.

  31. Masa Asele Seitshiro –

    I learnt a lot that I can put into practice immediately.

  32. Nick Rudderforth –

    Very good and informative, presents opportunities for self reflection.

  33. Reema Ladher –

    very good course

  34. Jonathan Walsh –

    Good extensive course, but probably needs more content to be a 4 hour course

  35. Martin John Cope –

    Very clear and consise

  36. Przemyslaw Dziubek –

    Lot of surface level information, but it is a soft area so assume not that easy to do it better.

  37. Sarah Rita Mangope –

    This is an interesting course and I found it relevant to my development. Business Partnering is indeed the way to go and this course helped me understand it more and I will use most of what I learnt to develop myself in this space.

  38. Rachel Nardi –

    An interesting course – would recommend for accountants starting out as finance partners.

  39. Gareth Hudson –

    This is the most comprehensive self-directed learning course that I have completed in the last 2 years! Provides a great mix of relevant academic research frameworks, context, technical articles and reflections from Sean and myself. I will refer to the Course Summary and Actions List download PDF often.

  40. Chiew Chin Chow –

    Although I have been practising FBP skills in my organisation, this course provides valuable ideas of becoming an effective FBP and allows me to see things from different perspective.

  41. Rupa Sangameswaran –

    Good course showing new trends in FBP. Concise and easy to understand. Live examples also makes the concepts clear.

  42. Anthony Lau –

    A nice summary on the difference between an accountant to a FBP. It gives some good insights not just on the individual, but also what the organisation needs to do in order to sucessfully implement a FBP model.

  43. Dianne Rae –

    The content was very well set out and not full of jargon so easy to understand and relate to

  44. David Herrington –

    I very much liked the interactive nature of this module – it encourages thinking about the subject matter

  45. Barry Schuurmans –

    Great course. Right amount of context for setting up the FBP function

  46. Joshua Howarth –

    Very informative and relevant

  47. Lynn Madondo –

    I learnt a few things including having confidence in myself to begin with.

  48. Andrew O Donnell –

    The course was presented just as a finance business partner would aspire to have done, clearly and convincingly. The question in the “quiz” were incisive to keep attention up. Nice to have case studies that seemed realistic.

  49. Denym Weston –

    Very useful content, can apply a lot to where I work, where we have fallen into doing some of the pitfalls of FBP. The use of different mediums – videos, articles etc was good way to learn.

  50. David Woollard –

    The course appears to lean toward larger business with many very separate departments and large accounting departments. The way a FBP could develop in a small business was not mentioned.

  51. Oluwabukunmi Oguntonade –

  52. Andrea Anderson –

    I am about to start a new position, where I will have more of a support role to Management/board this course as given me insight into what I will need to do/change to fulfil this new position.

  53. Carol Muircroft –

  54. Gavin Hughes –

    Good mix of reading and video content

  55. David patteson –

  56. Olivia Smith –

    Did meet needs, covered a lot of grounds. Really enjoyed the video presentations

  57. Peter Corrish –

  58. Michelle Rawbone –

    Videos

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