Using AI in Finance Operations and Budgeting

Details

This program is tool-agnostic and hands-on. Participants learn how to weave AI into daily finance rhythms—close activities, reconciliations, working-capital actions, and planning cycles—while maintaining strong governance and auditability. Labs and templates emphasize quick wins, measurable KPIs, and safe scale-up across P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A.

Target Group

Target Group

• Finance operations and shared-services leaders (P2P, O2C, R2R)
• FP&A managers and planning analysts
• Controllers, senior accountants, and treasury/working-capital owners
• Internal audit, risk, and compliance professionals driving AI governance
• BI/analytics leads and ERP/EPM product owners enabling the finance tech stack

Goals

• Map AI opportunities across operational finance and planning, linking each to time, accuracy, cost, and control.
• Design clean, governed data flows that feed copilots/LLMs and analytics with traceable evidence.
• Automate repetitive tasks in close and reconciliations with clear exception handling and approvals.
• Build driver-based budgets and rolling forecasts, enriched by predictive and scenario techniques.
• Produce executive-ready narratives, dashboards, and decision briefs with defensible explanations.
• Establish governance for security, validation, model risk, and benefits tracking.
  

Target Competencies

Target Competencies

• AI-enabled process optimization and exception management
• Driver-based planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling
• Narrative reporting and decision intelligence for leadership
• Governance, model risk, and audit-ready evidence management
• Cross-functional partnering to convert insights into action
  

Outlines

AI Strategy for the Finance Office

• Where AI creates measurable impact in P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A
• Readiness checklist: data standards, master data, posting logic, and lineage
• Copilot patterns for policies, journals, variance notes, and board summaries
• Human-in-the-loop controls and evidence trails that satisfy audit
• Quick-win portfolio and KPI baselines to prove value early

Operational Intelligence: P2P, O2C, and R2R

• Smart capture and classification for invoices, POs, receipts, and contracts
• Three-way match assistance, duplicate detection, and automated approval routing
• Cash application, dispute clustering, and prioritized collections actions
• Scalable reconciliations: bank, GR/IR, sub-ledger to GL with confidence scoring
• Continuous-close practices: checklists, flux analysis drafts, and close-calendar optimization