Led by Andrew Jepson • Chartered Accountant • Author • 25+ Years’ Experience
Finance Business Partnering Training for Finance Teams
Helping finance professionals influence
decisions, not just report results.
Practical Training for the Modern Finance Function
The FBP Team provides Finance Business Partnering training and coaching for organisations and individual finance professionals.
Many finance teams are technical strong, and produce accurate reports – but still struggle to have their insights acted upon. We develop finance professionals’ communication, influencing, storytelling and presentation skills. Combining this with stronger relationships and improved commercial understanding, your finance team will have a greater impact on how decisions are made in your organisation.
The focus is practical application. Participants learn techniques they can use immediately in meetings, conversations and presentations with non finance stakeholders.
Our Programs
We offer structured programs depending on whether you are improving an entire finance team or developing an individual career.
The FBP Accelerator
For Finance Teams
A 12 module program designed for organisations wanting finance to operate as a true business partner.
Focus areas
- Improved communication with non finance teams
- Influencing over decision making
- Storytelling and presenting insights with clarity
- Building strong relationships to allow challenge
Best suited to CFOs and Finance Directors who want their teams to deliver insights, spark action and proactively influence the decisions of their organisation.
The Leaders Lab
for top talent individuals
A leadership and coaching program for senior finance professionals progressing toward executive roles.
Focus areas
- Present with confidence
- Leadership communication
- Influencing senior stakeholders
- Strategic thinking
- Executive presence
- Embedding Finance Business Partnering expertise into the team
Best suited for top talent finance professionals trying to embed business partnering in their teams as they move toward the C-suite.
7 Day Kickstart
On demand video course
A professionally produced on demand introduction to Finance Business Partnering.
Focus areas
- Learn at your own pace
- Over 6 hours of professional filmed content
- Online quizzes to support learning
- Over 50 tools and techniques for business partnering
Best suited for individuals or small teams on a small budget looking to improve their business partnering capability.
Ideal starting point for individuals or small teams.
Organisations Who Have Trusted Us
We have provided Finance Business Partnering training for finance teams across a range of industries including large global organisations, government departments and not for profit entities.
Led by Andrew Jepson
During his corporate career he realised technical expertise alone did not determine effectiveness or career progression. Communication, influence and understanding how businesses operate were far more important.
Over the past 10 years Andrew has worked directly with organisations and finance leaders helping them apply practical techniques that can be used immediately in real workplace situations.
Andrew is the author of Compliance to Commercial: The QUIET Approach to Finance Business Partnering, one of the few published books dedicated entirely to this topic. He is considered the global expert on the topic of Finance Business Partnering and personally believes…..
“It’s not what you do, it’s how you
do it that makes the difference.”
What Is Finance Business Partnering?
Communicate effectively with non finance stakeholers
Understand commercial drivers of the organisation
Build Strong Relationships so things work quickly
The objective is simple. Better business decisions and performance, not just better reporting.
“Finance Business Partnering is finance working cohesively with other functions to help solve real business problems that achieve the organisation’s strategic goals” – Andrew Jepson
Our Build > Connect > Impact Framework
BUILD
Recondition how finance approaches its roles, priorities and the way it interacts with stakeholders and the way it interacts with stakeholders in other functions
CONNECT
Help finance understand the commercial side of the organisation and build strong relationships so they can operate with speed and accuracy
IMPACT
Improve communication, storytelling and presentation skills so that finance begins to influence decision making and shape results
What Participants Say
We have provided finance business partnering training to over 10,000 finance professionals across a range of industries. Here is what some of them had to say about the programs…
“This program was a real mindset shift for me. I applied the tools immediately.”
Mohammed
CFO
Pharmaceuticals
“Strongly recommended to teams building finance business partnering capability.”
Michael
Finance Director
Medical
“The first training course in a very long time I actually enjoyed and will use in my job.”
Elissa
Senior Finance Analyst
Energy
“Skills not taught at university but essential in the workplace.”
Simon
National Accounting Manager
construction
“They show how finance people can add more value to the organisation using simple techniques.”
Sumeet
Financial Controller
property
“Simple, practical techniques I could experiment with straight away.”
Polly
Senior Strategy Analyst
materials
Free Finance Business Partnering Resources
Monthly
Bootcamp
Free
Book
“FBP Made Easy”
Newsletter
Our fortnightly newsletter “FBP Made Easy” provides simple tips to apply today.
The Role of Finance Is Changing
Automation and AI continues to reduce the time spent on reporting. The value of finance is increasingly determined by how we communicate, how we influence and our contribution to decisions.
Once the robots arrive, the only thing left will be business partnering.
Finance Business Partnering is becoming a core capability for modern finance professionals.