Stop Doing the Numbers. Start Reading Them.

Senior Accountants and Finance Managers are under growing pressure to deliver faster closes, sharper forecasts, and board-ready insights — often with the same headcount and the same spreadsheets they’ve used for years. Reconciliations, variance commentary, consolidations, and report drafting still eat up hours that could be spent on analysis and decision support.

AI for Senior Accountants and Finance Managers is an intensive, hands-on program designed to help corporate finance professionals cut through this manual workload using free, accessible AI tools — no coding, no technical background required.

Why Attend This Training?

This is not a generic AI course.

This is a practical, finance-specific program built around the real operational challenges faced by controllers, accountants, and finance managers today — and how AI tools can already be applied to day-to-day finance work.

Participants will work hands-on with use cases linked to:

• Budget variance analysis
• Cash flow forecasting
• Balance sheet analysis & key ratios
• Anomaly detection in accounting journals
• Board deck preparation
• Monthly close memos and reporting.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the finance tasks and processes best suited to AI implementation
• Use key free AI tools on real finance cases
• Significantly reduce time spent on repetitive, low-value tasks: data entry, reconciliations, variance commentary, consolidation
• Produce CFO-quality analyses and reports in a fraction of the usual time
• Build a realistic AI implementation roadmap, prioritised against their own time and budget constraints

Practical & Hands-On Approach

This program is designed around practical application and real-life operational scenarios.

Participants will:

• Work on real-world finance and accounting use cases
• Run comparative, hands-on testing of free AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and others)
• Complete structured exercises covering budget variance, cash flow, balance sheet analysis, anomaly detection, board decks, and close memos
• Build and present their own AI implementation roadmap, challenged by the trainers
• Leave with a personal 30-day commitment plan

Bring your Excel file. Leave with practical ideas and tools you can apply immediately.

Meet the Trainers

Dr Viv Padayatchy

Expert in Digital Transformation & Technology Implementation

Dominique Valerie Augsburger

Finance & AI Training Specialist

Why This Training Matters Today

Finance functions are no longer judged only on accuracy and compliance — they’re expected to deliver faster, sharper, more forward-looking insight to the business. AI is no longer a future concept for finance teams; it is already reshaping how reconciliations get done, how variance is explained, and how board reports get built.

This training gives senior accountants and finance managers practical, tested exposure to these tools — in a way that is immediately applicable to their own organisation’s numbers, systems, and constraints.