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Remote finance business partnering – how to run interactive meetings
As a finance business partner, are you running interactive virtual meetings with your business colleagues or just using Skype or Zoom as a video-conference facility? With most finance teams working from home, video-conference meetings have become the norm for many...
Covid-19 action plan for finance business partners
With many finance teams now working from home, don’t forget your business colleagues! I’d like to give you a simple 3-step plan for the short-term to help you stay focused on finance business partnering, especially since many finance teams are now working...
What is the role of Finance in your business?
Transforming the role of Finance to become strategic business partners is a change journey that takes time and requires improvements across several dimensions. Your starting point should always be to understand where you honestly stand today, in the eyes of your...
There’s a reason the car windscreen is bigger than the rear-view mirror!
Finance business partnering is about looking forwards through the windscreen to challenge and influence business decisions, business strategy and business outcomes. Yet more than 85% of the time in most Finance functions is spent looking in the rear view mirror!...
Start your Finance day by eating a Live Frog!
Most of the important things in life aren’t rocket science. They’re just difficult. Most of us don’t eat healthily or exercise enough. Yet the problem isn’t that we don’t know about healthy food and exercise. We just never get around to it. Other things take up our...
How to free up time for finance business partnering
“We’ve restructured our Finance organisation but we’re still not adding any more value to the business” I can’t tell you how many times I hear this from Finance Directors who’ve been through a Finance Transformation. Finance typically creates a new ‘Target...
