Overview:
For accountants working in industry, Artificial Intelligence offers a step-change in how finance functions plan, report and analyse.
This practical session is designed for accountants in the corporate sector - management accountants, financial controllers, and those working in financial reporting, FP&A and business partnering.
It moves beyond the headlines to examine where AI is genuinely useful inside a corporate finance function today: accelerating the month-end reporting cycle, generating and refining management commentary, strengthening forecasting and variance analysis, and interrogating large datasets quickly.
Delegates will gain a clear understanding of the current tools, how to apply them within a controlled corporate environment, and how to navigate the governance, data and ethical considerations that come with using AI in a reporting and decision-making context.
Key Features of the Course:
This CPD session will cover:
- The current AI landscape for finance teams: what generative AI and Copilot-style tools can do in a corporate setting
- Accelerating the month-end close and management reporting cycle
- Using AI to draft and sharpen management commentary and board narrative
- Enhancing forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
- Working with large datasets: analysis, anomaly detection and surfacing insight
- AI within Excel and Power BI: practical productivity for the finance function
- Automating repetitive processes across the finance team
- Data governance, model risk and internal controls in an AI-enabled function
- Ethics, transparency and responsible use in reporting and decision-making
- Building a realistic adoption roadmap for your finance team
Speaker:
Philip Weldon, Managing Director, Titan Digital
Philip Weldon is Managing Director of Titan Digital, a Dublin-based consultancy specialising in the practical application of artificial intelligence and automation for businesses and professional service firms. He works with organisations across Ireland to identify where AI can deliver genuine time savings, building automated document-processing and workflow systems and training teams to adopt these tools confidently and responsibly.
Philip is an experienced trainer who delivers AI and digital skills programmes for professional bodies, Skillnet networks and Local Enterprise Offices throughout Ireland.
His sessions are known for cutting through the hype to focus on real, applicable use-cases, with a strong emphasis on safe, ethical and compliant adoption. Drawing on hands-on experience building AI-driven automations for finance and administrative functions, he brings a practitioner’s perspective on how professionals can put these tools to work in their day-to-day roles.