Located in Leeds, FBP Academy is an award-winning company on a mission to upskill, support, and inspire Finance Business Partners, or FBPs, around the world to perform at their very best. Influencing key decisions and driving improved financial performance within its clients’ organisations, FBP Academy has been awarded for its excellence in the Business Elite Awards 2025. FCCA, Founder, and CEO Andi Lonnen tells us more. Transformative Training Academy Empowering Finance Professionals Globally FBP Academy has been operating for 12 years to help transform traditional accountants into value-adding business partners. With clients typically from large organisations around the world, FBP Academy achieves this mission through its award-winning FBP Members Club® e-learning platform, conference speaking, a popular FBP guidebook, and top-tier training courses and programmes, especially its flagship 12-month FBP Transformation Programme. Unlike many training providers in the market, FBP Academy employs a robust team of senior finance experts, so that all training is designed for finance professionals by finance professionals. This has been a successful strategy to establish authenticity and credibility for FBP Academy, whose delegates often comment that the company understand exactly what the situation is like for them, and so its offerings remain relevant and effective. “Our experiences and war stories help those we train learn how to better solve the issues and challenges they’re facing,” Andi tells us. “We are one of three providers of this niche training in the world, we believe.” What’s more, we learn that FBP Academy is the only training provider to offer an e-learning FBP membership platform, which currently boasts more than 50 e-learning masterclasses on key FBP topics, over 50 FBP showcases, a Members’ Lounge, and a monthly Members’ Live event. FBP Academy’s flagship 12-month FBP Transformation Programme aims for just that – full transformation. This programme has helped to create a number of awardwinning finance professionals and teams and has had a significantly positive impact on many businesses as a direct result of implementing FBP Academy’s teachings. Providing a wealth of support and accountability for the delegates every step of the way, the programme consists of an FBP Competencies Assessment based on its 9Cs FBP Formula®, taken at the start and end to track progress; highly practical and interactive live modules; follow-up accountability sessions; Accountability Buddy Groups, a Success Diary; a copy of FBP Academy’s FBP e-book; team presentations at the end of the programme; a dedicated Programme Portal for each cohort; and Continuing Professional Development certificates. Such specialised services have been meticulously developed since FBP Academy’s inception, driven by Andi’s desire to help more individuals by utilising her financial talents. “I am so proud of all the work we do,” Andi beams. “I particularly love working with FBPs from so many different cultures, recognising their challenges are much the same and hearing their perspectives and experiences to enrich the thinking of all our delegates as well as us trainers.” Recently, FBP Academy has started to work with delegates in Kenya and Cameroon and has worked with an array of participants from countries as diverse as Kazakhstan, Dubai, Brazil, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Mexico, China, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and many more across the globe. Since its inception, FBP Academy has aided financial professionals on six of the seven continents of the world, truly striving to touch all corners of the world with its expertise. Named the Most Empowering Finance Training Provider 2025 – West Yorkshire, FBP Academy is a forward-thinking company with a keen eye on the market and a relentless drive to empower finance professionals around the world. After a year of substantial success in empowering, inspiring, and educating FBPs to better shape the future of the financial market, we at SME News cannot help but wonder what the upcoming year will hold for FBP Academy. “The world of accountancy is changing with the advent of AI and all things digital,” says Andi. “This is a massive opportunity for accountants everywhere to do what they were born to do; be a part of the cut and thrust of the business, help support and influence key decisions and help to drive improved business performance. Accountants have a unique skill in understanding the numbers of an organisation; business partnering involves them sharing that skill by interpreting what the numbers mean for business leaders and how to use that information to move forwards. It’s an exciting place to be! “For us as a business, we need to continually adapt to changing economic circumstances – such as navigating our way through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic when our company was nearly wiped out. Together, we will continue finding creative ways to aid smaller businesses who need our help and training support.” Contact: Andi Lonnen Company: FBP Academy Web Address: www.fbpacademy.com Feb25037
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