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Course Outline
Day 1: AI Fundamentals and Python with AI for Finance
AI, Analytics and Agentic AI in Modern Finance
- Distinguishing between generative AI, machine learning, automation, and agentic AI, and understanding their respective roles in finance.
- Exploring finance use cases across accounting, FP&A, reporting, audit, treasury, and shared services.
- Identifying tasks suitable for AI assistance versus those requiring controlled automation.
Python for Finance - Using AI as a Coding Partner
- Essential Python concepts for finance professionals: variables, data types, conditions, functions, and notebooks.
- Leveraging AI assistants to generate, explain, debug, and refine Python code, moving away from isolated coding practices.
- Employing prompting techniques to ensure reliable, finance-focused code generation.
Working with Financial Data in Python
- Importing Excel and CSV data using Pandas and DataFrames.
- Performing filtering, grouping, aggregation, and calculation of finance metrics.
- Using AI to explain errors, enhance logic, and document analysis steps.
Practical Finance Coding Applications
- Automating repetitive calculations, variance analysis, and ratio analysis.
- Creating reusable Python workflows supported by AI code reviews.
- Validating outputs prior to their integration into finance reporting.
Hands-on Application
- Developing an AI-assisted Python workflow to analyze a sample finance dataset.
- Reviewing generated code, testing assumptions, and refining outputs through human validation.
Day 2: Advanced Financial Data Analysis with AI
Financial Data Preparation and Quality
- Cleaning, validating, and standardizing finance data.
- Addressing missing values, duplicates, inconsistent classifications, and date discrepancies.
- Consolidating data from multiple finance sources for comprehensive analysis.
Advanced Financial Analysis
- Analyzing revenue, costs, margins, profitability, and working capital.
- Conducting budget versus actual, variance, and period-over-period analyses.
- Performing drill-down analysis to pinpoint key financial drivers.
AI-Assisted Analysis and Anomaly Detection
- Utilizing AI to investigate movements, patterns, and unusual transactions.
- Formulating analytical questions and hypotheses based on finance data.
- Differentiating between useful signals and misleading AI-generated interpretations.
Forecasting and Scenario Analysis
- Considering historical trends, drivers, and assumptions for forecasting.
- Conducting what-if and sensitivity analysis to support finance decision-making.
- Using AI to support scenario narratives while maintaining financial controls.
Hands-on Application
- Executing end-to-end analysis of a finance dataset to identify key variances and anomalies.
- Compiling a concise AI-assisted finance insight summary backed by underlying data.
Day 3: AI-Based Financial Dashboards and Management Insights
Finance Dashboard Design
- Selecting meaningful KPIs for finance, management, and operational reporting.
- Designing dashboards centered on decision-making questions rather than visual complexity.
- Structuring views for executives, management, and analysts.
Building Interactive Financial Dashboards
- Connecting and transforming finance data for dashboard utilization.
- Creating KPI cards, trends, variance visuals, drill-downs, and filters.
- Developing views for budget versus actual, profitability, cash flow, and performance.
AI-Enhanced Dashboarding
- Exploring financial data using natural-language querying.
- Generating AI-assisted summaries and explanations of KPI movements.
- Utilizing AI to identify areas requiring deeper analysis.
Dashboard Controls and Reliability
- Considering data refresh, traceability, validation, and reconciliation.
- Managing access, sensitive financial information, and controlled distribution.
- Preventing misleading visual or AI-generated conclusions.
Hands-on Application
- Constructing an interactive financial dashboard using a structured dataset.
- Incorporating AI-supported management commentary linked to measurable financial movements.
Day 4: Advanced AI Tools in General Ledger and Finance Operations
AI Applications in General Ledger
- Analyzing GL accounts, transaction patterns, and posting behavior.
- Using AI to assist with transaction classification and account-level reviews.
- Identifying unusual, high-risk, or out-of-pattern entries.
AI for Reconciliations
- Matching records and identifying exceptions across finance datasets.
- Supporting bank, intercompany, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Prioritizing unreconciled items for human investigation.
Journal Entry Analytics
- Detecting duplicate, unusual, and manual journal entries.
- Analyzing period-end journals and generating supporting explanations.
- Establishing risk indicators and review checkpoints for finance teams.
AI in Financial Close and Reporting
- Prioritizing close tasks and conducting exception-based reviews.
- Generating AI-assisted variance explanations, commentary, and review notes.
- Employing structured approval and validation before final reporting.
Hands-on Application
- Analyzing a sample GL dataset to identify anomalies and reconciliation exceptions.
- Producing a controlled AI-assisted review summary for finance management.
Day 5: Agentic AI for Finance Operations and Decision Support
Understanding Agentic AI for Finance
- Defining agentic AI workflows: goals, planning, tools, memory, actions, and feedback loops.
- Determining where agentic AI can support finance operations and where human approval is critical.
- Comparing single-agent versus multi-step or multi-agent finance workflows.
Designing Agentic Finance Workflows
- Creating agents for data collection, analysis, validation, and reporting tasks.
- Connecting agents to structured finance data and approved tools.
- Designing escalation rules, checkpoints, and approval boundaries.
Agentic Use Cases in Finance
- Automating variance investigation and management commentary workflows.
- Triaging GL exceptions, supporting reconciliations, and monitoring close status.
- Refreshing forecasts, preparing scenarios, and assisting with finance queries.
Governance, Risk and Controls for Agentic AI
- Implementing human-in-the-loop controls, audit trails, permissions, and segregation of duties.
- Addressing data confidentiality, hallucination risk, validation, and model limitations.
- Defining safe operating boundaries before production deployment.
Final Practical Capstone
- Integrating Python, AI, advanced analytics, and dashboard outputs into a single finance use case.
- Designing an agentic workflow that analyzes results, flags exceptions, and prepares management insights.
- Presenting the workflow, controls, outputs, and recommended next steps.
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of finance, accounting, financial reporting, or FP&A concepts.
- Proficiency with Excel and experience working with financial datasets.
- No prior Python programming experience is necessary, though basic familiarity with data analysis is advantageous.
- Familiarity with AI or generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Claude, is beneficial but not required.
- Participants should feel comfortable handling financial reports, KPIs, budgets, variances, and related finance data.
- Access to a laptop equipped with the required training tools, datasets, and approved AI platforms is needed for hands-on sessions.
35 Hours
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