The Importance of Finance Business Partnering in Strategic Decision-Making
Finance business partnering is widely endorsed and inconsistently funded. Most finance leaders agree it is valuable; considerably fewer can say what it returned last year, and a good many have appointed business partners who quietly reverted to producing reports within twelve months. This guide takes …
Key Skills Every Finance Business Partner Should Possess
Finance business partnering is the discipline where the gap between the skills listed on a job description and the skills that decide success is widest. Most specifications lead with modelling, analysis and systems — all real, all necessary, and none of them the main reason …
From Accountant to Advisor: A Career Guide to Becoming a Finance Business Partner
Most finance business partners did not start out as business partners. They were management accountants producing the monthly pack, financial accountants running the close, or auditors who moved into industry and found they were more interested in why the numbers moved than in whether they …
