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6 - 8 October 2025
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Certificate in Finance as a Strategic Business Partner

Transforming the finance function from reactive scorekeeper to proactive business partner

Sign Up for Our Professional Certificate in Finance as a Strategic Business Partner Training

Gain insight into a range of frameworks for the role of finance as business partner

Why Attend?

This intensive training course will take delegates through a range of building blocks to achieve this desirable transformation.

Many finance professionals seek this transformation of their function, but whilst the ambition is there the successful achievement is very often missing, and many Finance Functions remain as backward-looking accounting and control functions, perceived by the rest of the organisation as adding little value.

Case studies, Supporting background articles and video clips will be used many times during the course to illustrate real-life learning or both good and poor practice.

Benefits of Attending

  • Learn what being a Strategic Business Partner really means and how finance can uniquely contribute value to that business partnership
  • Understand a range of practical ways to achieve transformation of the finance function to become a successful and valued strategic business partner
  • Learn from many case study examples of both good practices and potential barriers to be overcome
  • Recognize and apply useful and relevant management tools and techniques to support successful “SBP”

Run this course in-house

For over 29 years, Informa Connect Academy’s customised training solutions have helped organisations deliver tailored learning in different languages to suit every requirement.

Bespoke training designed for your organisation only, combining traditional classroom setting, blended and online learning models

Is this course for you?

Who Should Attend

  • Finance professionals - who aim to reposition their functions to become genuine and respected / valued Strategic Business Partners
  • Business and strategy managers - who recognize the added value that finance is uniquely able to bring through Strategic Business Partnership

Course Requirements

  • Satisfactory attendance – delegates must attend all sessions of the course. Delegates who miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions will not be eligible to sit the course exam
  • Successful completion of the course assessment.

Learn More About This Training Course

Delivered by Mark

Mark is a Balanced Scorecard Institute Senior Associate and the lead consultant of BSS Africa, a South African based consulting and training firm owned by PMI Africa.

Certified by NASBA

Informa Connect is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

Run this course in-house

For over 29 years, Informa Connect Academy’s customised training solutions have helped organisations deliver tailored learning in different languages to suit every requirement

Delegate

"""Your course was a game changer for me and enabled me to take very critical and challenging roles in several organisations. I still go back from time to time to the material you provided for guidance."""