Finance Team Training

This practical training programme will help finance professionals build business resilience and competitiveness by integrating nature information into core finance processes and decision-making.

Participants will explore how nature-related risks and opportunities can affect a company’s financial performance and position – and how finance teams can respond through planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment appraisal, and capital allocation processes.

The emphasis is on using nature-related information to support better business decisions, rather than treating nature solely as a compliance or disclosure exercise. The programme will reflect the practical realities facing finance teams today as well as relevant developments in good practice, regulation, and accounting and reporting standards. Reference will be made to resources from the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and others, where appropriate.

Training will comprise three sessions designed to enable (and capture) changes in finance team behaviour, processes and decision making. Participants will test a practical application within their organisation between sessions, share lessons with the group and identify how successful approaches could be embedded or scaled. The overall objective is to achieve a transition from topic awareness to practical application. 

Why take this training?

• Develop practical ways to integrate nature-related information into established finance processes and decisions. 
• Learn from finance, accounting and nature specialists, supported by business case studies and practical exercises. 
• Learn from peers facing similar challenges. 
• Test and build approaches that can be embedded within routine financial management, governance and reporting.

What you’ll learn

By the end of the training, participants should be able to:

• Understand how nature-related risks and opportunities can affect financial performance and prospects; 
• Identify entry points for nature-related data and insights within planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment appraisal and capital allocation; 
• Navigate uncertainty, time horizons and trade-offs when incorporating nature into finance processes and decisions; 
• Understand the distinct but complementary roles of natural capital assessment (including the TNFD’s LEAP approach) and natural capital accounting; 
• Understand how nature-related considerations connect with the wider sustainability reporting and disclosure landscape, including the ISSB and other relevant frameworks; and 
• Demonstrate at least one practical action or process change arising from the training.

Who is this course for?

This training is primarily aimed at finance professionals working in business roles – including CFOs, finance directors, controllers, FP&A professionals, management accountants, analysts and report preparers.

We also encourage other business professionals working in sustainability, strategy, risk or procurement roles to join a finance colleague, where this supports cross functional application.

Session details and timings

Training will comprise three separate 3-hour sessions. The expectation is for participants to attend all three sessions, and engage in practical application between sessions, to provide the most valuable learning experience.

1. Better decisions | 12 November 2026 |13:00 – 16:00 UK time (14:00 – 17:00 CET)

• Explore how nature-related information can inform strategic planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment appraisal and capital allocation. 
• Understand how natural capital tools can generate decision-useful information. 
• Identify a practical opportunity to test within your organisation before Session 2. 

2. Embedding change | 8 December 2026 | 13:00 – 16:00 UK time (14:00 – 17:00 CET)

• Share initial implementation experience and learn from peers and practitioners. 
• Explore how nature-related information can be incorporated into monitoring, management reporting, governance and controls. 
• Refine your approach and identify actions to embed change within routine finance processes. 

3. Outcomes and scaling | 1 March 2027 | 13:00 – 16:00 UK time (14:00 – 17:00 CET)

• Reflect on what was tested, what changed and what was learned. 
• Share evidence of application and organisational change with peers. 
• Identify how progress can be sustained, embedded and scaled.

Secure your place: register your interest by Friday 2 October

Places are limited – please register as soon as possible by completing the form below.

If you are interested in attending together with a colleague, please register separately (i.e. one registration per participant).

Expressions of interest will be reviewed to assemble an appropriate cohort and tailor the programme to participants’ roles, experience and learning needs.

Priority will be given to those able to participate in all three sessions.

We will contact applicants to confirm places and provide calendar invitations and joining information.

The programme will provide a trusted environment for peer exchange. Sessions will be run under Chatham House rule (no comments shared during the training will be attributed).