The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is the world's leading and largest professional body of management accountants, with over 227,000 members and students operating in 179 countries. As CIMA continues to evolve its qualifications portfolio to reflect employer needs and drive better business decisions, it has established a strategic collaboration with The Hackett Group to offer a professional development qualification in the global business services (GBS) and shared services (SS) sectors.  

This unique, comprehensive talent management programme is specifically tailored for GBS professionals in finance, IT, HR and procurement and combines CIMA’s training expertise with the best practices and intellectual property only The Hackett Group can provide. Together they are addressing the need to provide structured professional certification, talent development and lifelong learning for the sector, whilst helping organisations around the world to build a road-map to achieving world-class standards by developing people, not just process.