Ever tried to book a meeting with your boss (or other senior leaders) only to find their diary is completely full. Frustrating isn’t it? You simply can not get time with the senior leaders and get them to focus on
Identify key barriers holding back finance business partnering success and discover practical ways to overcome them to become more strategic and valued.
When we hear leadership most of us think of how we lead our own teams. How we are showing up to the people “below” us in the finance team. Which is great but it is missing a key element of
Your Audience Needs a GPS This week I was lucky enough to sit through one of the most poorly structured and boring presentations I have ever seen. Lucky because it gave me material for my blog of what not to
Do you have any workshops or material on Storytelling Andrew? It’s probably the one question I get asked the most. Like there is some magic elixir we can cover in two hours that will make every finance person brilliant at
A Finance Business Partner is a finance professional who works closely with leaders and teams across an organisation to improve business decisions. Rather than only producing reports, budgets and forecasts, a Finance Business Partner helps people understand what the numbers
At a recent keynote I was asked what piece of advice would you give entry level finance staff around how they can start to build stronger relationships with non finance. My answer……focus on being likeable. 92% of finance people, when
Where Do I Find A Great Finance Business Partner? The answer to this one is fairly straight forward for me….they are right in front of you! I am a massive believer that the people who make the best finance business
The Worst Negotiations are…. The past fortnight has been an interesting ride for me as I started the process of negotiating for a new property. And also had a separate negotiation with a client go south It’s been a pretty
I wrote a version of this article eighteen months ago. The argument back then was simple. The question of AI or business partnering was the wrong question. The right one was AI and business partnering. Two things you needed to
One of the key components of great finance business partnering in our QUIET framework is Q for Quality Good data, good systems and processes and good people. If you don’t know what I am referring to just download our book
For someone who has been in the finance profession for over 25 years, it’s a big call to isolate and label one piece of advice I received as the best. And yet here we are. The reason I want to
When I first started working in a business unit I was a firm believer that the way I was going to get ahead was to build awesome reports, provide great commentary about what was happening and why and visualise information
I have been working in this space of Finance Business Partnering for over 10-15 years now. Some doing it in an organisation, but over the last 6-7 researching it and teaching and developing finance teams to do it effectively. So
