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Business Partnering - Finance as a Strategic Advisor
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About the Course
This course provides practical training in finance business partnering, covering how finance professionals build credibility and influence with operational business leaders. It is designed for finance professionals seeking to expand their role beyond traditional reporting responsibilities.
Participants examine stakeholder engagement techniques, commercial insight development, and influencing skills, building the practical capabilities needed to act as a trusted advisor to the business. Case examples illustrate successful business partnering in varied organizational contexts.
Learning Milestones
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build effective business partnering relationships.
- Develop commercial insight to support business decisions.
- Apply influencing techniques with non-finance stakeholders.
- Translate financial data into business-relevant insight.
- Balance advisory and control responsibilities as a business partner.
- Measure the impact of business partnering activities.
Professional Audience
This course is ideal for finance professionals building business partnering capability, including:
- Finance business partners
- Financial planning and analysis professionals
- Commercial finance managers
- Business unit finance managers
- Finance professionals transitioning into partnering roles
Modular Syllabus
Business Partnering Fundamentals
- The business partnering model
- Business partnering versus traditional finance roles
- Building trust with business stakeholders
- Common business partnering challenges
- Assessing your current partnering effectiveness
Course Dates & Prices
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