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How To Maximise The Value of What You Communicate As A Finance Business Partner
If you’re a finance business partner or even a management accountant, communication of financial information is vitally important. Chances are you produce lots of reports. You may have been providing these reports for a long time. So they must be of value then, right? Not necessarily. I was watching a YouTube video from Andi Lonnen on what to communicate. The big […]
Continue readingThe Most Important Thing You Can Do To Be A Better Business Partner
What’s the number one thing you can do to be a better finance business partner? From my perspective and from talking to literally hundreds of people in workshops, the one thing that’s going to make the biggest difference to you being a more effective business partner is to spend more time out in the business. Understanding the […]
Continue readingMaking The Right Interventions As A Finance Business Partner
As a finance business partner you wear many hats and play many roles. A lot of your time the focus is on adding more value. Whether that’s through insight, advice or influence. From time to time you have to switch to the stewardship role. Thinking not just about the areas that you support but the wider organisational interests. Considering the […]
Continue readingHow To Constructively Challenge While Maintaining Great Relationships As A Business Partner
The business partner role is expanding in most functional professions, including Finance, IT, HR and Procurement. Most in business partnering roles love the focus on adding more value and being part of shaping success. Of course there’s the other side of business partnering. This when you have to challenge, push back and say things that might not be […]
Continue readingHow To Get The Buy-In From The Business For Finance Business Partnering
Finance Business Partnering is a hot topic among accountants. Many in managing accounting roles aspire to step into the role of Finance Business Partners. As management accountants there may well be many great reasons from a professional and fulfilment perspective why you would want to move to more Finance Business Partnering. To make this a reality is going […]
Continue readingDo You Report On The Cost of Non Conformance As A Finance Business Partner?
Many organisations are facing really challenging times right now. And it looks like this will be the way it is for quite a while. When faced with tough times, the use of resources becomes even more important. I remember back in the early 90’s getting trained in quality when working in a credit card company. At that time it […]
Continue readingWorking Effectively Across The Business As A Business Partner
Business partnering is common now for many accountants and other functional professionals. A key element in your success is the ability to working with others across the wider organisation. Conceptually many understand this. But how do you do this in practice. I offer some quick tips in the video above. Looking to be a better business partner? Sign up below […]
Continue readingHow To Build Better Relationships As A Business Partner
More and more functional professions like accounting, IT, procurement, marketing and HR are moving to more business partnering. Some of this is driven by technology. Some down to changing expectations. Some down to professionals wanting to play a bigger role in the business. One thing I’ve noticed over the course of my career is just how important […]
Continue readingThe Role of The Finance Business Partner In Challenging Times
Finance Business Partners make a major contribution to business performance and success. How does the role of the Finance Business Partner change in challenging times like we have right now with COVID-19 pandemic? To help answer this, I video interviewed one of the UK’s leading authorities on Finance Business Partnering, Andi Lonnen Visit The Finance Business Partner […]
Continue readingHow To Make The Transition To Finance Business Partner
The role of accountants in business, whether in private or public sector is changing.Technology is making it possible to do a lot of tasks quicker.More routine tasks are being outsourced or eliminated.In other words times are changing.In this screencast video I share some thoughts on how to successfully transition from a traditional management accounting role […]
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