Those of you who know me and have worked with me — either our email subscribers, people on our Finance Business Partner  programs, our Finance Business Partner members, people on our training courses, have probably heard me say, again and again: Finance Business Partnering is a mindset, a skill set, and the daily actions that you take.  

This is the shift from the traditional accounting role of do and produce to working with others in the organization. Understanding the business and connecting with them. Designing your reports and your communications in a way that adds greater value so that they can improve their decision, improve financial health, and performance. That’s the mindset shift.  

A huge area of the skill set is the FBP Formula™: the 9 C’s model. Those are the skills to develop and continually work on.  

The daily actions of business partnering — in the everything that you do — is really considering in every email where you’re adding value, who is your recipient, or recipients of that email? How do they want the information delivering? Do they need one line, or do they need loads of detail?  

Business partnering is in the everything that you do— your emails, your discussions, your meetings, your reports, your presentations, your month end, your everything. Every single action that you take during the day, you have the opportunity to be a stronger, more value adding Finance Business Partner.  

Remember everybody, Finance Business Partner is a mindset, a skill set, and the daily actions that you take.  

Wishing you every success on your own Finance Business Partner growth journey! 😊