Finance teams of the future will no longer be confined to back-office silos. Modern Finance teams now have the opportunity to emerge as strategic partners, providing valuable business intelligence and supporting key decision-making.

Looking to drive the Finance function forward National Australia Bank (NAB) announced a strategic partnership with Melbourne Business School (MBS). This partnership helped to prepare 60 of NAB’s finance professionals for the disruptive changes which are coming in banking.

That was three years ago though and so far the 12-month customised course at MBS has helped boost the analytical and problem-solving skills of hundreds of the bank's finance specialists; ensuring the Finance team becomes a central function, not just a support function.

Ahead of the Future of Finance and CFO Summit 2019 we chat to Fiona Dickinson, Head of Consumer Lending Finance at NAB. In this article Fiona shares NAB’s Six Pillars of Finance strategy and delves into how the bank’s innovative partnership with Melbourne Business School is helping NAB achieve goals and transform finance.