Benefits
Becoming a member with LIA opens up a window to limitless opportunities in your career and personal development, and provides you with ongoing access to numerous member benefits, which will support and assist you in the advancement of your profession.
Members holding one or more of LIA’s widely recognised designations demonstrate their commitment to excellence as a Finance Professional to employers and clients throughout Ireland and are highly sought after in their field.
As a valued member of LIA, you gain access to an exclusive suite of offers and discounts through our Affinity Scheme. Designed to assist you in achieving a greater level of wellbeing, whether it’s personal
or professional coaching to provide you with guidance on your journey, educational courses or public speaking training to help you get your next promotion - or health insurance, yoga or meditation to aid your physical and mental health, our Affinity Scheme has got your wellbeing covered!
Available to QFAs and CFPS, there is a unique opportunity to leverage your financial expertise to support families grappling with the profound challenges of childhood cancer. You can participate in two ways. either by giving financial advice to families to help them deal with their financial issues during and after treatment and/or by being a speaker at local parent and survivor workshops where you can offer your insights and expertise.
Published exclusively for LIA Members, "The Advantage" is the premier quarterly magazine for today’s dynamic finance professionals. Each issue is accompanied by a Factsheet that provides concise and up-to-date tax, interest, mortgage, pension rates and thresholds in an easily digestible format. Access both current and past issues through our eMagazines platform in audio and readable formats, viewable on your phone, tablet, or PC.
Members can access a library of on-demand events that allows you to earn CPD hours where applicable and are ideal if you want to learn at your own pace, revisit important topics, or catch up on live events you may have missed. This flexible learning option helps you stay informed, develop professionally, and meet your CPD requirements at a time that suits you.
Once you successfully complete an on-demand event, your CPD hours will be added automatically to your CPD log. You do not have to manually add these to your CPD log.
All on-demand webinars are free to access FOR Qualified and Associate Plus members.
We also hold national practitioner and business value events each year, for example:
• Managing Wealth seminar series
• Credit Union specific seminar series
• RPA Practitioner Forum
• And other ad hoc events, e.g. HR seminars, ideas sharing workshops, motivational events
LIA organises over 35 hours of online and in-person practitioner-focused CPD events each year (at
least 10 of these events are free to attend for members). These thought provoking, practical and member-relevant sessions ensures your ongoing professional development, along with providing an opportunity to network, share experiences and develop business and personal relationships with your peers.
We produce pre-recorded webinars for all course modules every year. Qualified LIA members have 24/7 online access to the latest pre-recorded webinars, specific to the courses you have successfully
completed. These are delivered on a chapter-by-chapter basis, making it easier for you to cover the specific sections which are of most interest to you.
We have 24/7 online access to the latest textbooks for LIA courses which you have successfully completed. As our textbooks are updated every year this provides you with easy online access to the most up-to-date information relevant to your qualification. We encourage you to use these textbooks as valuable reference material.