Management consultant

As a finance business partner, you need: to have credibility and influence within the management team, to be articulate and proactive in your approach and, most importantly, to have a thorough understanding of where your business can create value. This course explores the finance business partner role and how you can develop your skills to become a trusted advisor in your or your clients' businesses.

This course will enable you to:
 

• understand the role of the finance business partner and how it differs from traditional transactional and management accounting
• become a core part of management decision-making, using financial information to influence and shape outcomes
• help your business interpret the internal and external environment through good information sources so that both financial and strategic targets can be achieved
• identify and overcome the challenges involved with the finance function and finance business partnering
• understand how best to implement a successful finance business partner approach that results in an effective and respected finance business partner role.

This course guides you through how to build resilience within your organisation. It discusses the structures needed to create an agile and lean organisation, and how this helps business management when facing a crisis. You'll also discover what good management looks like during the recovery period, and how a crisis provides the opportunity to build resilience.

In this course you will:

• discover what is meant by resilience and the basis your organisation needs to be resilient
• understand that resilience involves restructuring your organisation to make it more lean and agile
• familiarise yourself with the different elements of business management that need adapting when facing a crisis
• identify what good management looks like during the recovery period, including managing business and employee morale.