FINSIA is changing.
Of course, we’ll always be deeply proud of our history and heritage and the role we’ve played in shaping the financial services sector in Australia and New Zealand for almost 150 years, improving professional practice and driving the highest standards.
We know, however, that we’ve got to deliver genuine value to you – our members – and we’re driven by leveraging the strength of yesterday, bringing meaning to today, and creating opportunities for tomorrow.
Here are some of the benefits of being a FINSIA member for 2024-25 to help you make the most of your FINSIA membership.
What’s new for FINSIA members?
Your FINSIA membership is packed full of resources and opportunities to help develop your career and play a role in shaping, guiding and evolving your profession, too.
From webinars, events and networking to education, CPD offerings and learning opportunities, you can access a whole host of member benefits, tailored to wherever you are in your career.
Log in to your new, complimentary microlearning courses
Continual education and professional development are incredibly important for anyone working in financial services, and as a FINSIA member, you have complimentary access to our growing library of microlearning courses.
We currently have 30 on-demand courses available, covering a range of subjects across four key areas: ethics, professional skills, personal development, and banking. Each area is designed to help you develop your professional skills and knowledge.
Topics include:
- Ethics in Business and Finance
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Overcoming Resistance and Objections
- The 6 Habits of Effective Leaders
- Maintaining Integrity in the Workplace
- Building Your Career Development Plan
- Empathy in the Workplace
A minimum of two new microlearning courses are added every month, ensuring you always have fresh professional development to tackle. Each course lasts between 15 and 90 minutes.
As a FINSIA member, you can access this ever-growing library of learning for free, and for every microlearning course you complete, you receive CPD recognition.
For non-members, access to the 30 courses currently available would cost AUD$2,350.
Explore our new education programs
FINSIA also provides a curated range of structured educational opportunities, with new courses coming online regularly.
We know that you’re part of the FINSIA community because you’re committed to continuous professional learning and development. As 2024 unfolds, an increasingly tough economic climate means there is even more reason to invest in your skills and knowledge to ensure you are well-positioned for changes in the employment market.
Until 2 August 2024, you can access a specially discounted, Professional Refresher Package through our partnership with the UK’s Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
The package provides 12 months’ access to 60-plus courses, providing over 80 CPD hours. Topics range from a recap of financial services basics to topics at the cutting edge for today’s professionals, including Investment Products and Investment Markets, ESG, Technology, AI & Fintech, and more.
Last week, we launched a new short course, The Essentials of Private Equity, in partnership with Mark Richardson, Co-founder of Wolseley Private Equity Group.
This self-paced online course consists of 5 modules that will take you inside the world of successful investing, career opportunities and wealth creation in the private equity universe.
Priced at just AUD$259, this course includes 22 content-rich videos explaining:
- The ultimate goal of private equity and how firms achieve this goal through a four-stage process.
- Realising what is required to attract capital from professional investors, where that money comes from, and what returns those investors can expect.
- Understanding how a private equity firm finds companies to invest in, what makes a company attractive to them and how the investment or deal is executed.
- Distinguishing myth from reality about how a modern private equity firm increases revenue and profit through growth, expansion and strategic operational improvements.
Attend our full calendar of in-person and virtual events and webinars
As well as our catalogue of on-demand learning opportunities, FINSIA has a full calendar of in-person and virtual events to keep you informed and up to date about everything going on in – and affecting – the financial services sector.
In 2023, we held 32 webinars and 33 face-to-face events across Australia and New Zealand. We also relaunched our regular roundtable sessions, designed to help members dive deep into trending topics and connect with industry experts.
Our diverse webinar program continues to be incredibly popular with members, attracting an average attendance of at least 300 members online each session.
We’re constantly updating the webinar and events calendar, so please look here for the latest opportunities.
Creating new opportunities to help you build meaningful connections is an important feature of your membership, and our in-person events provide just that. In addition to the educational sessions we organise, later this year we’ll also bring back FINSIA’s much-loved end-of-year cocktail networking functions with events planned in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. Stay tuned for further details and your invitations coming soon.
We’re working hard to expand our partnerships to deliver more value for members in regional locations, New Zealand and further afield. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to assist us in developing events in your local area.
Use your FINSIA post-nominals for added credibility and trust
Post-nominals are an incredibly important way of demonstrating your professionalism, knowledge and standing within the profession – reinforcing your expertise and experience as a senior financial services professional, and earning immediate credibility with clients, too. They also provide reassurance that you’re bound by a strong code of conduct and will behave ethically and responsibly.
Associate members of FINSIA can use the A FIN post-nominal, while Senior Associate members are SA FIN. FINSIA Fellow members can add F FIN after their name, while Senior Fellows have the SF FIN post-nominal.
Be mentored – or be a mentor
Having someone to offer advice, support and guidance is crucial as you navigate your way through your career. And, if you’ve already clocked up a few years, giving back to the professional community is an incredibly rewarding experience.
FINSIA’s mentoring program pairs together the perfect mentors and mentees, providing six months of guidance for mentees.
Having an independent mentor is an extremely valuable tool for professionals who are developing their careers, and as a FINSIA member, you have complimentary access to our mentoring program.
Access our regular news updates and resources
To complement our stream of educational content, we also produce and publish regular website articles, newsletters and other resources to help inform, shape and guide you through the everyday. By understanding the issues that are affecting you, we can create content that genuinely matters, and can be an invaluable resource. FINSIA members are often invited to contribute their views to our content, helping to build your own personal brand online.
FINSIA: driven by purpose
FINSIA is changing.
By focusing on how best we can support you today, and develop you for tomorrow, we’re determined to be the very best professional partner you can have.
By creating opportunities to affect how the professional services sector grows, and developing a voice that will be heard, we’re ensuring that you’ll play a role in shaping the future of the profession, too.
If you have any questions about your membership, please contact the FINSIA membership team at [email protected].
