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AI for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Explore how AI can add value to financial planning and analysis. Get more from your performance data and strengthen decision-making, while keeping ownership of the conclusions you reach.

Learn by doing through practical exercises based on real FP&A work
Access templates, checklists and real-world case examples from day one
Get feedback and support from start to finish, and for 90 days afterwards

Overview

Turn data into decisions you can defend.

FP&A teams are expected to do more than explain what happened. They need to understand why, anticipate what could happen next and help the business make better decisions. Our Foundational and Practitioner AI for FP&A courses show you how to use artificial intelligence across forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and reporting to uncover insights faster and build stronger financial narratives. You'll learn how to use AI responsibly, challenge assumptions and support decision-making with confidence, while commercial judgement and accountability stay firmly with you.

One professional pathway,
two ways to progress
 

Whether you’re new to the world of AI or already use it in your work, there’s a route for you. Both courses are delivered through live, instructor-led online sessions with a focus on real-world learning that you can put into practice from day one.

Duration

10 hours of intensive learning over two days

Study modes

Online - Live and instructor-led

Cost

Courses are delivered in groups of minimum 15 learners.
Talk to our team to find the right option for you or your organisation.

🟡 Foundational

I want to use AI effectively in my role

You want to build the skills and confidence to get the most value from AI in your FP&A work.

Learn how to: 

  • Use AI across budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis with prompts that work

  • Support everyday planning, research and financial reporting activities

  • Work confidently with sensitive data, analysis and performance drivers

  • Use AI responsibly by challenging and validating assumptions, sources and outputs

🟢 Practitioner

I want to build AI-supported workflows

You want to move beyond individual tasks and turn them into automated processes or workflows.
 
Learn how to: 

  • Identify planning and analysis workflows where AI can add value, with appropriate human sign-off

  • Build and test AI-supported workflows using approved data and KPIs

  • Design AI assistants and agents with clear controls and human review

  • Manage multi-agent systems while maintaining oversight of assumptions and outputs

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Book your place today

Equip yourself or your team with the skills to use AI safely, confidently and ethically in your role.

FAQs

If you can’t find the answer to a question, our helpful advisers will be happy to help.

Choose based on your experience of using AI and what you want to do with it. Foundational is for professionals who want to use AI more effectively in individual tasks. Practitioner is for those already comfortable using AI who want to connect tasks into workflows and test AI-supported processes.

Before the course, you'll complete an AI skills diagnostic to assess your current level of capability. Based on your answers, you'll receive guidance on the most suitable starting point. At the end of the course, you'll complete a second diagnostic to measure your progress and demonstrate the impact of your learning. 

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