Are Finance Business Partners only for big companies?
By Andy Burrows
There is a common frustration among Finance Business Partners.
Many of them almost feel as if they have been mis-sold the role.
They were promised that they’d be close to the business, as writers like me keep saying we must be in Finance. They were promised involvement in important discussions and strategic decisions. They were promised freedom from mundane number crunching.
And yet one of the biggest complaints from Finance Business Partners is that they still seem to spend too much time compiling reports, checking numbers, drilling down, building forecasts, and writing commentaries. And they hardly have any time left to spend with the non-finance colleagues they’re supposed to be partnering with.
And, to be clear, I’m talking about the way that Finance Business Partners feel about their jobs, not the way that others may criticise them.
So, for instance, this is a question that was sent to me during a recent Finance careers event:
“I am...
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