The future of finance is robots, a small number of exception ‘fixers’, and a small number of dedicated commercially-focussed people with financial expertise.
These pure business partners will be in demand and highly paid. Some will be very, very highly paid. I call then Super-BPs.
I’ve been a finance director and a sales director, and over the last 5 years I’ve trained over 5,000 senior finance people.
I’ve used this insight to develop the 4 types of finance business partners and the 16 behaviours that I believe will future-proof your career.
Take the free survey to find out what type you are, and download the 16 behaviours below. And when you’re ready try my online video course for free.
Choose from our range of in-house tailored options over 1 day to 6 months. All start with a capability assessment against our 16 behaviours of World class, and included high-impact, interactive face-to-face workshops. Plus full access to the online video course for 12 months to embed & extend learning.
Watch the video to find out what finance business partnering is and download the packages.
Finance business partnering is about 3 things: building relationships, turning data into insights, and bringing numbers to life. If you do those things you’ll influence decisions. And that’s the point of being a finance business partner – to influence.
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Data answers the question what, information answers the question why, and insights answer the question so what. Deal in data and the robots will take your job. But there are massive opportunities in the finance revolution if you can help answer the question so what.
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Andy delivered a course for our senior European team focussed on the softer skills of turning insight into influence, which he delivered with high energy. Andy is a great tutor, very passionate about his subject matter and has lots of credibility. The feedback from the attendees was excellent and the impact since the training has been visible with lots of great examples of putting the theory into practice and extending the influence and impact of the finance organisation. We intend to invite Andy back in the future.
Andy worked with our Finance Business Partner team and has transformed the way we approach the role. By emphasising the importance of relationship building and looking at things from the perspective of our stakeholders the team are now able to provide significantly better service.
If you are looking for a way to improve your business partnering then I cannot recommend Andy highly enough.
Andy has taken me & our team on a journey of self learning, enabling a transformation which has resulted in turning dull, low value information into insight and influence. The learning has opened our eyes to a different way of communication and we are excited to continue this journey and see what we can achieve – thanks Andy!
Andy ran a great course for our Finance team recently. Great speaker who engaged, inspired and motivated the whole team. Without exception, the team’s response has been amazing and Andy’s simple, memorable advice has already started to have a transformative effect.
Hi, I’m Andy Shambrook. I was once a finance business partner, struggling to influence decisions.
People said I was too ‘black and white’, and needed to ‘be more commercial’. They would ask me to ‘bring the numbers to life’ and to ‘tell the story behind the numbers’.
On my journey to becoming UK Finance Director for Dulux Paints, I learned what they meant.
I then became a Sales Director, and gained a whole new perspective on what great finance leadership could be.
I’ll show you and your team everything I learned in sales & marketing that I wished I’d know when I worked in finance, because it would have made my life a lot easier and completely transformed my influence.
I’ll show you how sales and marketing people do what they do, and importantly how you can apply it to your role in finance: whether you’re an analyst, manager, head, director, or CFO.
I have worked with Andy twice and have been very impressed with his ability to deliver relevant content in a way that is engaging from start to finish. Andy’s unique sales and finance background really brings something to the table and I would thoroughly recommend his expertise to develop any business partnering capability.
No other training course has created such a positive and sustainable change to the culture and work of a finance team in which I’ve been involved.
Our new focus on creating strong relationships and providing real insight has been been very rewarding for the finance team, and in many cases has been a total revelation for our non-finance colleagues who are now being given a genuine insight into what is actually happening in their business areas, compared to a previous diet of impenetrable tables and spreadsheets.
I would recommend Andy to any finance team wanting to influence their organisation, and if you work in finance and don’t want to influence your organisation then you’re probably in the wrong job.
With many courses I tend to find I get back to the office and can’t work out how to apply what I learnt in real life. It is not like that with Andy’s courses.
Andy understands what it is like working in a challenging, time pressured world and about what really works when you need to sell your ideas or build relationships.
The courses he gives are very interactive in way that feels natural, not forced.
Andy has supported our high potential Finance development programme on a number of occasions.
He connects with all members of our internationally diverse cohort bringing to life key finance development topics, such as strategic thinking, commercial insight, business partnering and influencing stakeholders.
His sessions are well planned and managed, delivered in an engaging, influential, conversational tone. He gets overwhelmingly positive feedback from our finance community.
We would invite Andy back again.
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