Team Development 05 – Business Partnering
Overview
This module is designed to help all finance team members—whether in a dedicated Finance Business Partner (FBP) role or supporting other departments—partner effectively across the business. You’ll explore the ten key roles of an FBP, from building trusted relationships and providing insightful data to influencing strategy and driving performance. Through expert-led videos, podcasts, and real-world examples, you’ll develop the skills and mindset needed to bridge departments, solve problems, and create value. By the end of the module, you’ll be equipped with proven techniques to strengthen your impact, enhance collaboration, and be recognised as a vital contributor to your organisation’s success.
Learning Objectives:
After completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Confidently support other departments across your business
- Provide insightful data and bring the numbers to life
- Influence strategies, initiate new ideas and contribute to decision making
- Deliver your responsibilities in an impactful and successful manner.
You should then seek opportunities to help other departments whenever appropriate and put your learnings into practice.
Lessons:
Lesson 1: Overview
Finance Business Partners turn financial data into insights, helping teams make better decisions and drive performance.
Lesson 2: Build trusted relationships
Finance Business Partners build trust by being credible, responsive, and collaborative—proving finance is a valuable partner in achieving business goals.
Lesson 3: Bridge different departments
Finance Business Partners can boost company performance by improving cross-department collaboration, driving synergies, and building stronger links between teams.
Lesson 4: Provide insightful data
Finance Business Partners turn financial data into clear, tailored insights—helping departments identify value drivers, improve decisions, and boost performance.
Lesson 5: Bring the numbers to life
This module shows you how to explain numbers in plain language, answer the “So what?” question, and use storytelling to drive better decisions across the business.
Lesson 6: Influencing strategies
This module covers five levers of influence and how FBPs can proactively shape decisions, gain trust, and align financial support with business goals.
Lesson 7: Initiate new ideas
Finance Business Partners are expected to drive innovation by proposing ideas, building strong business cases, and leading change to deliver impact across the business.
Lesson 8: Contribute towards decision-making
Finance Business Partners support data-driven decisions by sharing insights, managing conflict, and helping teams reach alignment.
Lesson 9: Drive performance
Finance Business Partners help drive business performance by identifying risks, supporting departments in hitting targets, monitoring KPIs, and providing training to boost capability across the organization.
Lesson 10: Solve other people’s problems
Finance Business Partners identify key challenges, research solutions, and design practical fixes to drive impact across the business.
Lesson 11: Creating value
Finance Business Partners create value by driving growth, reducing costs, freeing up cash, and improving working capital across the business.
Lesson 12: Skills and Mindset
The Finance Business Partner role demands strong analytical and people skills to drive impact—this section explores the key traits needed to succeed.
Additional Information
CPE Credit/CPD Hours: 6.6
Field of Study: Management Services
No prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course.
No advance preparation is required.
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
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