I’m Andy Shambrook and I’m on a mission to help finance people be more commercial and influence more decisions.
Follow my 3 step Commercial Mindset Plan® to build relationships, turn data into insight, and bring numbers to life.
Choose online, public or in-house finance business partnering options. Qualifies for CPD for ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA and more.
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I’m Andy Shambrook and I’m on a mission to help finance people be more commercial and influence more decisions.
Follow my 3 step Commercial Mindset Plan® to build relationships, turn data into insight, and bring numbers to life.
Choose video, public, or in-house finance business partner training options. Qualifies for CPD for ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA and more.
Global presence with partners in Europe, AsiaPac, Americas, & Africa.
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Follow my 3 step commercial mindset plan. If you build relationships, turn data into insight, and bring numbers to life, you’ll take your influence to the next level.
Influence starts with relationships. You can’t influence anyone if they don’t trust you. Learn to build rapport with anyone, fast. Accountants focus on systems & processes. Partners invest in relationships.
Accountants deal in the data that tells you what has happened. Finance partners focus on insight that answers the question ‘so what’. Want to be more commercial? Then stop telling people what happened, and start telling them what they can do to improve.
The worst way to communicate numbers is to use a table of numbers. Bring your numbers to life, making your finance reports and presentations engaging, interesting, and even a little bit fun.
We’ve identified the 16 behaviours of World Class finance business partners. All our training packages start with an online assessment against these behaviours to benchmark current performance and help us tailor the content. We repeat the assessment at the end of the training to give a tangible measure of the ROI.
Our finance business partner training courses will develop your people from calculator to leader.
You’re an expert in data. You know how to filter out the noise and focus on the only the most important elements. You eliminate bias and search for cause over correlation.
You translate the data into valuable information. You bring numbers to life, creating immersive dashboards visualising the most important KPI trends.
You turn information into insight, earning your seat around the table. You have built strong trust, giving you the opportunity to influence key business decisions.
You present with confidence & gravitas, and know how to position your ideas to gain buy-in. You’re seen as a broad commercial leader.
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.
Choose from online video courses, public workshops, and in-house tailored development programmes.
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.
I became UK Finance Director for Dulux Paints, and thought I had nailed finance business partnering.
I then became a Sales Director, was partnered by finance myself, and saw whole new perspective.
In 2014 I founded The Finance Business Partner, and over the last 5 years I’ve worked with over 5,000 finance people and over 100 companies across the World in every sector.
We’ve now grown to 3 partners covering the World. And we’ve all been senior finance leaders, and experienced life outside of finance.
If you work with us you won’t get a finance course. You’ll get a commercial course, applying sales and marketing techniques to being an influential finance business partners.
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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