Finance Business Partnering Boot Camp

The Finance Business Partnering Boot camp is an intensive program designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge to excel as a strategic finance leader. In this course, you’ll learn how to move beyond traditional accounting roles and become a true business partner, driving decision-making, influencing business strategy, and improving financial performance. Through practical exercises, real-world case studies, and expert insights, you’ll master the art of communication, collaboration, and financial analysis, enabling you to build strong relationships with stakeholders and become a trusted advisor to the business.

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Workshop: The Business Partnering Mindset

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.

Workshop: Bringing Numbers to Life

Learn how to take a boring table of numbers, and in less than 10 minutes make it interesting, engaging and even a bit of fun!

Workshop: Turning Data into Insights

Learn how to turn data, into information, into insights. Explore Insights Mountain and ensure you are in the BP playground.

Workshop: Relationships

Learn how to build fast track rapport, challenge elegantly, and deal with conflict. Map out your relationships and make a plan.

Workshop: Secrets of Influence

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.

Workshop: Storytelling

Learn how to tell stories behind the data, using 3 storyline structures, the top 10 charts and the 5 charts not to use.

Workshop: Present with Confidence

Learn how to engage your audience, and feel confident presenting face to face, remotely and digitally.

Course Testimonials

Made a refreshing change to step away from the numbers and look at what finance business partnering really means for the business.

Brilliant, engaging and fun! Thank you for a fantastic training opportunity.

The business partnering boot camp was a great success and our team took a lot out of it.

Great content and covered lots of things in a short time. Very accessible, memorable and valuable use of time. Good to use lots of breakout exercises. This is a worthwhile investment for the whole finance team.

Course Overview

What we Cover:

Sharing Powerful Data Insights, Influencing Other People, Supporting Decision-Making, Presenting with Confidence

The Challenges:

Building strong cross-functional relationships, generating value, presenting data insights, influencing other people, supporting timely decision making.

The Barriers:

Talking finance to non-finance people, interpreting complex data, overcoming fear of presenting, gaining stakeholder trust, engaging your audience.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of the Finance Business Partnering Boot Camp, your team will excel in creating engaging financial presentations, transforming data into actionable insights, and building strong professional relationships. Teams will also gain skills in storytelling, influence, and confident communication, enabling them to drive strategic decisions and foster collaboration across the organization.

Business Benefits:

Greater Collaboration, Improved Accuracy, Strategic Insights, Better Decision-Making, Increased Buy-In

Course Facilitator

Oliver Deacon

Course Facilitator

Oli is an ICAEW FCA based out of the UK and a PCC-certified coach with ICF. He is also a former Microsoft Finance Director, where he business partnered marketing, product and software engineering teams with a $4.5BN P&L.

Prerequisites: No Prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course

Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required

Program Level: Basic

Delivery Method: Group Live

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