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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Day 1: Foundations of AI for Finance

1. Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Practical Perspective

  • Understanding what AI is and is not within the financial sector
  • Insights into how modern AI systems operate
  • Differentiating Generative AI from conventional automation
  • Essential factors for finance: precision, clarity, risk management, and control

2. Leveraging Claude with Generative AI

  • Introduction to Claude and its integration with the Microsoft 365 and finance ecosystems
  • Excel – Enhancing analysis, formulas, reconciliation, and reporting
  • Word – Drafting policies, narratives, and financial documentation
  • Outlook – Improving stakeholder communication and explanations
  • Assessing Claude’s strengths, limitations, and data handling boundaries

3. Effective Prompting for Finance Processes

  • Methods to interact with Claude efficiently and consistently
  • Crafting prompts that yield precise, structured, and auditable results
  • Identifying and preventing common prompting errors in financial applications

4. Agent-Assisted Workflows with Human Supervision

  • Clarifying the concept of “agentic AI” in relation to Claude
  • Creating agent-assisted workflows that keep humans in the loop

5. Ideation – Exploring how Claude could be applied if you were leading finance in your organization

Day 2: Practical Finance Integration Workshop

1. Implementing AI in Financial Scenarios

  • Revisiting use cases introduced on Day 1

2. Navigating provided scenarios

3. Designing and Setting Up Claude-Powered Workflows

  • Specifying the financial task and intended results
  • Choosing reliable data sources and defining access limits
  • Developing prompts, guardrails, and approval stages
  • Identifying instances requiring human validation

4. Verifying AI Outputs in Finance

  • Strategies to verify Claude’s outputs for precision and coherence
  • Conducting spot checks, parallel tests, and confidence evaluations
  • Handling errors, uncertainties, and escalation procedures
  • Ensuring auditability and meeting regulatory standards

5. Open forum for discussion and participant queries

  • Summary of key learnings and suggested next steps

Requirements

  • Attendees should be professionals in finance, accounting, reporting, audit, FP&A, treasury, compliance, or other business roles involved in financial processes.
  • Proficiency in using Excel, Word, and Outlook is recommended.
  • Knowledge of standard finance activities, including reporting, reconciliation, variance analysis, documentation, stakeholder communication, or financial reviews, is expected.
  • Technical or programming skills are not a prerequisite.
  • Prior experience with Claude or similar AI tools is beneficial but not required.

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