{"id":2510,"date":"2022-09-30T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2022-09-30T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:58:40","slug":"finance-business-partners-training-and-networking-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2022\/09\/30\/finance-business-partners-training-and-networking-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Business Partners \u2013 Training and Networking Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Meet The Team Event<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Business Partnering Team are organising several events this year to help meet your training needs.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be able to meet colleagues in an informal networking setting and that refreshments will be available at each event!<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Terry, Debbie Howard, and Sarah Cornelius, who make up the newly formed Business Partnering Team, want to ensure that anyone involved in finance processes has a say into the financial systems at Kent University;\u00a0 be it raising purchase orders,\u00a0 journals, commentary for reports or who have overall responsibility for planning and budgeting;\u00a0 can come together, network to resolve shared problems and gain a better understanding of how and why procedures must be in place to meet financial objectives and to ensure Kent meets its regulatory obligations.<\/p>\n<p>The first event will take place between <strong><em>10am \u2013 12noon<\/em><\/strong> on<em> <strong>Tuesday 1<\/strong><\/em><strong><em><sup>st<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><strong><em> November 2022<\/em><\/strong> in the <strong>Darwin Boardroom<\/strong> and be an opportunity to meet the team and allow us to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give an overview of the team\u2019s responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Update you on the types of training we will be offering and organising<\/li>\n<li>Hear your feedback and training requests<\/li>\n<li>Get to know you better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope as many of you as possible will be able to drop-in to this initial event.<\/p>\n<p>We will be scheduling more events once we know your needs better.\u00a0 We are already considering targeted events such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UBW help drop-in session \u2013 system support, specific processing queries, an overview of how they can support you.<\/li>\n<li>Procurement drop-in session \u2013 why raise requisitions and purchase orders, how to raise them, benefits of correct coding, ensuring available budgets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure there are other areas where training and advice can really help you, so please come along on the 1st of November to help us shape your support.<\/p>\n<p>Do not be shy, we are all nice friendly people ready to help you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please email <a href=\"mailto:financebusinesspartnering@kent.ac.uk\">financebusinesspartnering@kent.ac.uk<\/a> to let us know if you&#8217;re coming.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet The Team Event The Finance Business Partnering Team are organising several events this year to help meet your training needs.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2022\/09\/30\/finance-business-partners-training-and-networking-opportunities\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262275,262269,137341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}