2026: Advanced business partnering

2026: Advanced business partnering

£625.00 + VAT
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Virtual
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Business partnering & personal impact
Jun
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Schedule Description: Advance from trusted partner to strategic adviser, strengthening your influence, challenging decisions, and driving performance.
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CPD hours: 6hrs

Description

Strengthen your credibility and impact as a senior business partner. Learn to influence strategy, challenge effectively, and communicate financial insight with authority to drive better business performance.

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Virtual classroom - Advanced business partnering
Advance from trusted partner to strategic adviser, strengthening your influence, challenging decisions, and driving performance.

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WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?
For finance professionals who have already built core partnering skills, the next challenge is to deepen strategic influence. Advanced business partnering goes beyond interpreting numbers - it’s about shaping choices, building credibility with senior leaders, and influencing the direction of the business. This course helps you operate with authority, challenge assumptions effectively, and ensure financial insight drives action at the top table.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Expand your impact from operational partner to strategic adviser.
• Lead and influence senior-level discussions on business performance and direction.
• Challenge assumptions with confidence, clarity, and diplomacy.
• Extract and interpret key insights to support better, faster decision-making.
• Strengthen relationships with board-level and executive stakeholders.
• Embed advanced partnering approaches within planning, forecasting, and performance cycles.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course is designed for experienced finance professionals who are already operating as business partners and want to elevate their strategic influence. It is ideal for those who have completed Mastering Business Partnering or have equivalent experience, including senior finance business partners, controllers, FP&A leads, and finance managers seeking to operate with greater authority at a strategic level. Participants will benefit most if they are ready to move beyond analysis to shaping decisions, influencing outcomes, and driving business performance.

WHY CHOOSE ICAEW?
• Trusted heritage: For over 145 years, ICAEW has trained and supported the world’s leading finance professionals, setting the global benchmark for quality.
• Expert-led learning: Our courses are designed and delivered by subject matter experts, combining professional insight with real-world experience.
• Connected and relevant: With close links to government, regulators, and industry, our training reflects the latest challenges and opportunities in business and finance.
• Practical and interactive: Live, small-group learning with peer exchange ensures every programme delivers immediate workplace impact – and counts as verifiable CPD.

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 6hrs 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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A 6-hour virtual classroom delivered over two interactive sessions combining practical tools, peer discussion, and applied learning.

Session 1 – Strategic partnering and influence

• Redefining the partner–adviser distinction.
• Building credibility and trust at senior levels.
• Framing financial insight for strategic discussions.
• Leading with influence – shaping agendas, not just responding to them.

Session 2 – Challenge, communication and impact

• Delivering challenge with confidence, tact, and clarity.
• Navigating stakeholder dynamics and managing conflict.
• Storytelling with finance – crafting persuasive strategic messages.
• Sustaining credibility and embedding influence within business planning cycles.

 

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 Cost Early Bird Pricing
ICAEW Member £425 + VAT £361.25 + VAT
Non-member £625 + VAT £531.25 + VAT

Early Bird Pricing
15% discount automatically applied on bookings made up until 6 weeks before the course date

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?

Yes, no fixed timings - will depend on the length of the course.

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.

 

Title Topic Format
 Description
Advanced business partnering Communication Virtual Elevate from trusted business partner to strategic adviser. This course helps experienced finance business partners strengthen influence, challenge assumptions effectively, and ensure financial insight drives decisions at the executive level.
Communicating to influence Communication Virtual Learn how to adapt your communication style to different contexts and improve your ability to engage and persuade, whether leading meetings or navigating difficult conversations.
Leading challenging conversations Communication Virtual Learn how to lead challenging conversations with confidence using neuroscience-backed techniques. Understand how people react under pressure and gain practical tools to communicate effectively in difficult situations.
Mastering business partnering Communication Virtual In an AI-driven world, strong relationships and valuable commercial insight set you apart. Enhance your finance business partnering skills to turn data into direction, build influence, and deliver real impact. Understand the skills required to be a great business partner and how to apply them.
Mastering high-stakes negotiation Communication Virtual Sharpen your influence and composure in high-stakes situations. This immersive course helps you plan, execute and adapt negotiation strategies under pressure, achieving stronger outcomes while building trust and lasting professional relationships.
Optimising emotional intelligence (EQ) for professional impact Communication Virtual Strengthen your professional impact by developing the emotional intelligence skills that drive credibility, influence, and resilience. Grounded in neuroscience and real-world application, this course helps you understand your emotional patterns and use EQ to perform and lead more effectively.
Presenting financial insights with impact and influence Communication In person Transform complex financial data into compelling narratives that drive decisions. Learn to structure messages for clarity and engage senior audiences effectively.
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