Two standalone certificates. One progressive pathway. Practical capabilities
for creating greater organisational value.
The finance role is being redefined. As automation, data tools, and AI absorb more routine reporting, reconciliation, and transactional work, technical expertise remains essential - but it is no longer enough on its own.
Businesses need finance to do more than report what happened. They need partners who can explain why it happened, what it means, and what to do next. The professionals who connect the numbers to strategy, challenge assumptions, surface risks and opportunities, and move stakeholders to action are becoming central to how organisations create and protect value.
The AICPA-CIMA Finance Business Partnering programme is a progressive pathway for CPAs, accounting professionals, and finance professionals who want to expand their influence, strengthen decision-making, and create greater value across their organisations.
AI embedded throughout - with professional judgement in the lead. Participants learn to use AI as a challenger and hypothesis generator rather than an authority, while protecting objectivity, accountability, and sound professional judgement.
Complete either certificate as a standalone development experience, or take both to build a progressive set of capabilities from understanding the business and earning stakeholder trust to shaping strategy, navigating uncertainty, exercising judgement, and leading organisational change.
SCOREKEEPER
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TRUSTED ADVISOR
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STRATEGIC DECISION LEADER
Ideal for finance and accounting professionals who are expected to move beyond technical execution and reporting to advise stakeholders, influence decisions, and contribute more directly to business performance.
Best suited for professionals beginning or strengthening their finance business partnering responsibilities. Build the mindset, business acumen, communication, and influence skills to become a trusted advisor.
Best suited for experienced finance partners, managers, and leaders ready to influence broader strategic and enterprise decisions. Strengthen judgement, strategic thinking, decision-making, governance, and change leadership.
Ideal for finance and accounting professionals who are expected to move beyond technical execution and reporting to advise stakeholders, influence decisions, and contribute more directly to business performance.
Build the essential mindset and capabilities of an effective finance business partner.
7 modules of 1.5 hours | 10.5 CPE and CPD credits | Group live and online
Trusted advisors improve decisions. Strategic decision leaders help determine where the organisation goes - and how it gets there.
This certificate helps finance professionals move beyond explaining results to uncovering what drives them, and then use that understanding to improve business decisions. Participants learn how organisations create value, how operational activity connects to financial outcomes, and how to identify the insights that matter most.
The series develops the human and analytical capabilities that build credibility with stakeholders: listening before advising, asking questions that uncover the real business need, challenging assumptions, evaluating AI-generated interpretations, and translating complex information into concise, decision-ready recommendations. Participants also learn to communicate with impact, handle objections, negotiate constructively, and gain commitment without relying on formal authority.
Advance from effective partnership to strategic and organisational leadership.
7 modules of 1.5 hours | 10.5 CPE and CPD credits | Group live and online
Trusted advisors improve decisions. Strategic decision leaders help determine where the organisation goes - and how it gets there.
This advanced certificate prepares finance professionals to apply business partnering at a strategic and organisational level. Participants learn to connect recommendations to mission, strategy, competitive advantage, resource allocation, and long-term enterprise value.
The series focuses on the realities of leadership when information is incomplete and the stakes are high. Participants strengthen their ability to evaluate strategic alternatives, make risk-informed decisions, frame complex and ambiguous problems, test critical assumptions, and use AI to challenge their thinking rather than replace it.
Participants also explore the uniquely human responsibilities of finance: exercising professional judgement, protecting objectivity, establishing appropriate governance, and knowing when to challenge, intervene, document, or escalate. They learn to lead transformation, build stakeholder commitment, strengthen the organisation's finance partnering culture, and bring strategic, operational, ethical, and organisational considerations together in stronger decisions.
AI accelerates the work. Judgment protects the quality of the decision.
