Finance Business
Partner Course
Everything you need to know to become a great finance business partner
Next Cohort Starts: 22nd May 2024
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Hosted By
Oli Deacon
Your investment is 100% risk-free
Finance Business Partnering Course Overview
Non-finance professionals recommend additional skills like sales, presentation, negotiation, and conflict management for finance professionals. We demystify these techniques and show you how to employ them, allowing you to effectively influence decisions and shape your unique career trajectory.
Our course lets you practice these skills in your day-to-day responsibilities. By mastering these competencies, you’ll set yourself apart and position yourself for accelerated financial success.
Rethink Your Approach: Transform Financial Communication with Investor Relations Techniques
In this course, you’ll learn how to adopt the proven techniques used by top Investor Relations teams. You’ll discover how to make your most important number stand out, effectively communicate its significance, and convey its implications for the future.
By mastering these techniques, you’ll elevate your team’s perception and become an indispensable function within your organization. Join us on this journey to transform your financial communication and support your business in a more impactful way.
Who the FBP course is for?
Finance
Professionals
This course is meticulously crafted for finance professionals who aim to advance their careers and take on the role of a finance business partner (FBP). Whether you’re an accountant, financial analyst, or a finance manager, this program provides the essential skills and knowledge required to transition from a traditional finance role to a dynamic, strategic FBP role.
Progressive Finance
Teams
Forward-Thinking
Finance Leaders
After completing the Finance Business Partner course, your team will…
- Be crystal clear what business partnering means in the context of their role.
- Build rapport quickly with anyone, even when working remotely.
- Turn data into insight in no time using a simple 3 step model to diagnose the root causes of issues.
- Turn a boring table of numbers into an interesting, engaging & fun dashboard in just 10 minutes!
- Feel confident challenging elegantly, say no without saying no, and get out of conflict without damaging your relationship.
- Present and communicate crystal clear messages with confidence.
- Position your ideas, and influence for high impact outcomes.
- Be able to flex your communication and influence style to other people.
- And be more influential with other functions.
Tools Your Team Will Learn on the
Finance Business Partner Course
We don’t do text-book learning of what we should be doing.
We already probably know what we should be doing.
The problem is we don’t really know how to do it! And that’s where we come in.
We’ll show you the exact same tools that other professionals use to influence. We’ll show you how they work in the commercial world, with real-life examples.
More importantly, we’ll show you how to apply the exact same tools to your day-to-day functional role at all levels. Super simple, easy to remember, and easy to use, that will transform your influence immediately.
The Communicator's Secret
You'll learn how to take a huge amount of data and quickly turn it into 3 key messages that get your message across in just 90 seconds.
Fast-Track Rapport
Learn how to build instant rapport with anyone in just 2 minutes, even difficult people.
Elegant Challenge
Learn how to say no without saying no and challenge without damaging your relationship. No more difficult conversations needed.
Naughty Words / Magic Words
You'll learn the language most people use that kills influence, and the small changes you can make that have a huge impact instantly.
Power Dashboards
You'll learn how to take a boring table of numbers and turn it into a one-page dashboard that's interesting, engaging, and fun!
5 Step Influencing
Every salesperson on the planet uses the same 5 step model. You'll learn how to apply it so you can influence - from cost savings to internal controls.
Heroes & Villains
You'll learn how to position your ideas as heroes (solutions) that solve your stakeholders’ biggest problems (villains).
Oscar-Winning Storytelling
Storytelling isn’t about making stuff up. It’s about crafting your story so it’s memorable. We will give you a simple technique Hollywood uses and apply it to your world.
Course Reviews
An Illustrative Timetable
WORKSHOP 1
THE BUSINESS PARTNERING MINDSET
Wednesday 22 May 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn what great looks like and leverage your own personal development plan. This isn’t about being a better functional expert, it’s about being a great Business Partner.
Fields of Study:
Finance 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Personal Development 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 2
bringing numbers to life
Wednesday 12 June 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn how to take boring table of numbers, and in less than 10 minutes make it interesting, engaging even a bit of fun!
Fields of Study:
Finance 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Communications and Marketing 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 3
turn data into insights
Wednesday 19 June 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn how to turn data, into information, into insights. Explore Insights Mountain and ensure you are in the BP playground.
Fields of Study:
Finance 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Management Services 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 4
relationships
Wednesday 26 June 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn how to build fast track rapport, challenge elegantly, and deal with conflict. Map out your relationships and make a plan.
Field of Study:
Personal Development 2 CPE Credits (2 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 5
secrets of influence
Wednesday 10 July 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Apply the secrets of influence used by sales and marketing professionals. Learn the universal 5 step sales process and how to apply it in your world.
Fields of Study:
Personal Development 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Communications and Marketing 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 6
storytelling
Wednesday 24 July 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn how to tell stories behind the data, using 3 storyline structures, the top 10 charts and the 5 charts not to use.
Fields of Study:
Finance 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Communications and Marketing 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
WORKSHOP 7
present with confidence
Wednesday 31 July 24
3-5pm BST / 10am-12pm EDT
Learn how to engage your audience, and feel confident presenting face to face, remotely and digitally.
Field of Study:
Communications and Marketing 1 CPE Credit (1 CPD Hour)
Successful Course Participants
8,000 business partners across over 150 companies all over the world.
Meet Your Facilitator
Oli Deacon
Associate Facilitator
UK, Europe and US
He was ACA qualified at Deloitte, followed by a variety of industry roles leading multinational finance teams at Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy Europe.
Benchmark Your FBP Skills
in Just 15 Minutes!
Are you ready to transform your Finance Business Partnership skills? Do you want to know where you stand compared to your peers?
Our unique Finance Business Partner Competency Framework is designed to evaluate your skills in three critical areas:
Finance Fundamentals
Collaborative Partnerships
Storytelling and Data Visualization
You’ll receive a detailed PDF report highlighting your current position and offering actionable steps to enhance your FBP skills.
Your investment is 100% risk-free
