Hypothetical question: What would you do with one million dollars?

You open your front door and there it is in a suitcase. With a note that says:

"A suitcase contains $1 million. You have 30 minutes to make an itemised list of how you would spend...

At a recent keynote I was asked what piece of advice would you give entry level finance staff around how they can start to build stronger relationships with non finance.

My answer......focus on being likeable.

92% of finance people, when asked...

"Once the robots arrive, the only thing left will be business partnering?"

This is our strap line at theFBPteam.

We believe this will become true in the future of finance over the next decade.

The alternative is finance teams get downsized and...

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do" - E.M. Gray

A love this quote by E.M.Gray above. It is a great stand alone quote but it also fits well into another great resource for time management.

The...

So you want to become a Finance Business Partner, but don't know how?

Surprisingly you probably already are one and you:

• didn't know it (because nobody gave you the title) or
• are doing it poorly (because nobody has ever shown you how).

Lets...

Prince Harry.....isn't he doing a good job of dishing the dirt on his family and the "institution".

I have yet to read his book or watch his Netflix series but one thing that does come across from him is his ability to operate "below the line"

And...

I get asked this question a lot

It is one of the most important roles in the finance team as they cross over many functions and are the first face the other department see and hear from the most

Often they are the brand of Finance.

So getting it...

The twenty-first century (and post pandemic) has allowed us to communicate in a number of effective and innovative ways. Email, Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, hashtags – the list goes on and on in relation to forms of communication...