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2025: Advanced finance business partnering

£725.00 + VAT
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Business partnering & personal impact
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Schedule Description: Change your approach to difficult conversations, moving away from anxiety, blame and conflict towards mutual understanding and problem solving.
CPD hours: 7

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Change your approach to difficult conversations, moving away from anxiety, blame and conflict towards mutual understanding and problem solving.

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8 July 2025, virtual classroom: Advanced finance business partnering

£725.00 + VAT
Available
Virtual
All Locations
Business partnering & personal impact
Jul
8
Tue
09:30
-
16:30 BST
Schedule Type Title: 1st of the Month
Schedule Description: Change your approach to difficult conversations, moving away from anxiety, blame and conflict towards mutual understanding and problem solving.
Sessions: 1
Session Hours: 7.00
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84495663115?pwd=aK9A450nrQE7UPndcPjhcs0iqpZn8D.1 Meeting ID: 844 9566 3115 Passcode: 296413
CPD hours: 7
Virtual classroom
09:30 - 16:30 BST

Description

Change your approach to difficult conversations, moving away from anxiety, blame and conflict towards mutual understanding and problem solving.

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Advanced Finance Business Partnering

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08/07/2025, 09:30 - 16:30 BST

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You are already an experienced finance business partner, and have earned your seat at the table. In this workshop you’ll learn how to make the very best use of that seat, and move from trusted advisor to strategic influencer.

If you’re ready to become one of the very best finance business partners in the world, then this workshop is for you.

At ICAEW we define finance business partnering as:

  • building relationships;
  • translating data into commercial insight;
  • influencing the key decisions that improve business performance.

Strategic finance business partners are the first name in the VIP list when it comes to making business decisions. Sharing the lead, they are genuinely commercial and operational and use this acumen to build relationships and influence decisions that achieve business objectives. This one day workshop is designed for anyone who wants to learn the secrets of influence and for anyone who has already completed the ICAEW's Bringing Numbers to Life with Commercial Insight course.

So what next? One of the reasons why we are so passionate about finance business partnering is that it is a skill that is never truly mastered. However good we get, we can always get better. On this one day course you’ll learn the importance of rapport and how to build it with anyone quickly before looking at the power of language and how to have difficult conversations, challenge elegantly and negotiate win-win outcomes. You'll then learn two superpowers that you didn't know you had and combine these with a superhero influence technique guaranteed to inspire action every time.

Advanced finance business partnering is all about building relationships and influencing decisions. You’ll start the day as a great finance business partner. You’ll end it as one one of the best.

Learning outcomes:

  • Influence starts by prioritising and building strong relationships.
  • The importance of rapport and how to build it quickly with anyone.
  • The power of language, how to challenge elegantly and negotiate win-win outcomes.
  • Relationship building superpowers and superhero influence
  • Inspire action and get decisions made.

Who should attend?

Anyone who works in finance who wants to build stronger relationships, learn the secrets of influence and be the first name on the VIP list when it comes to making business decisions. This one day workshop picks up where our Bringing Numbers to Life with Commercial Insight master class left off, it also works as a stand-alone workshop for anyone who wants to learn the secrets of influence.

CPD Hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this course could contribute up to 7 hours of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the course booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

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This course is for: Analysts, Managers, Trusted Advisors and Business Leaders.

Capability Framework 4

 

 

Trainer

Iain Dewson
Iain is an audit-trained senior finance leader. He qualified as an ACA and took a finance career path through various industries and financial control and FP&A roles until he landed at TUI to run their global Finance Academy. He was responsible for the learning and development of over 3,500 finance colleagues in more than 42 countries, which was a radical change in direction and a real eye-opener. Spending almost six years running a global learning platform, as well as designing and delivering bespoke training programmes around the world, was a richly rewarding experience.

His finance background combined with his viewpoint of looking into finance as a senior learning and development leader has given him a unique perspective. He now concentrates on finance business partner training: building relationships, turning data into insights and bringing numbers to life.

"Ian was excellent." - Delegate feedback

 

Rate Price
ICAEW Member £425 + VAT
Non-Member £625 + VAT

 

How are the courses delivered?

All Virtual Classrooms are run by live on Zoom. These are interactive and not recorded, interaction and delegate involvement is encouraged.

When will I receive joining instructions?

You will receive a email with joining instructions after enrolling. Materials and any other resources for the course will be sent to you shortly before the course start date.

Are there breaks?

Each 3-hour virtual classroom will include a 10-minute comfort break.

How do I access the course slide deck?

Depending on the course you will either be sent in the lead up to the course or after.

What if I miss the live date?

The Virtual Classrooms are not recorded so we recommend you attend all sessions.

What if I am going to be 15 minutes late?

This is not a problem, the classroom starts at the start time, but you will be let in if you are delayed for any reason. Trainers do their best to accommodate catch-up, but this is not guaranteed. Where possible please let us know of any delays so we are aware when doing role call the beginning of the session.

Can I have my colleague with me in the live course?

Yes, if you purchase a second place. Each booking is valid for one person only.

Can I record the training?

No, virtual classrooms are not recorded.

Do the courses on this programme count as verifiable CPD?

Yes, these courses contribute verifiable CPD, so long as you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role. Additional information about CPD can be found here: Your guide to CPD.

How many people will be on the course?

Virtual Classrooms are designed to resemble a real classroom. Therefore, group sizes vary between 6 – 22 delegates per course.

Click here to view the full 2025 Virtual Classrooms CPD Planner.

Our public course programme is deliberately structured to encourage delegates from different organisations to participate. However, if you have six or more delegates who require development in the same area, we are able to run a more cost-effective and much wider range of courses tailored specifically to your organisation.

Organisations will have the choice to run our in-house courses online or in-person.

These are ideal for organisations seeking hassle-free, flexible and cost-effective training delivered to multiple delegates at your location of choice. Whether we use our existing materials or develop new content for your business, our expertise lies in translating your requirements into a pragmatic, interactive training programme highly relevant to your people and organisation.

To discuss in-house training for your business please email academy@icaew.com or contact us through our enquiry form.

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