Hands-on Masterclass:
AI Augmented Finance
A practical, hands-on masterclass for finance professionals. Focused on building agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and real finance scenarios. Designed to make you the sharpest financial mind in the room.
Amsterdam · 4 Nov 2026
Unlocking the Power
of Artificial Intelligence
At the end of the Masterclass, participants will be able to understand how to unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence for:
- › Automating financial reporting and cutting hours off month-end close
- › Building faster, more accurate forecasts and running budget variance analysis
- › Translating raw numbers into board-ready executive communication
- › Strengthening audit readiness and compliance documentation
- › Identifying margin drivers and running costing and profitability analysis
- › Running financial risk assessments and scenario or stress-testing models
- › Moving from a descriptive approach (“what happened”), to a predictive approach (“what might happen”) to a prescriptive approach (“what-if scenario planning”)
- › Focuses on thinking, workflows, and judgment, not tools
- › Treats AI as a finance colleague, not a magic box
- › Prepares you for Agentic future, not just current GenAI
- › Balances productivity with governance, compliance and data accuracy
- › Multiple hands-on exercises, where you generate outputs using AI tools (ChatGPT / Co-pilot) /etc.), not just PowerPoint slides
Leave with workflows.
Not notes.
Most workshops give you slides. This one gives you things you can actually use — five working artefacts.
- The Finance Prompt Library
01
- The Prompting Card
02
- The Finance AI Use-Case Map
03
- The Agent Design Canvas
04
- Your draft Finance AI roadmap
05
What Four Hours
Actually Covers.
01
What AI Actually Is
- What an LLM actually does, why it “hallucinates” with total confidence, and the real difference between predictive, generative, and agentic AI — including where each is genuinely good, and where it reliably fails.
02
Generative AI and the Craft of Prompting
- The anatomy of a prompt, persona and iteration applied directly to financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and executive communication.
03
Hands-On: Finance AI Builds
- Small groups solve a real finance problem — variance analysis, forecasting, or reporting — using generative AI, present it back, and get feedback from the room.
04
Agentic AI — When Finance Systems Start Doing
- What an agent actually is: goal, memory, tools, autonomy, feedback loop. How it reaches into your ERP and reporting systems, and where a human needs to stay in the loop.
05
Hands-On: Design Your Own Finance Agent
- Groups design an agent around a real finance use case — like automated variance flagging or close-process support — present it, and stress-test it with the room.
06
Building Your Finance AI Roadmap
- The maturity ladder, where to start, the real challenges and opportunities, governance and compliance guardrails, and a structured 30-90-120-day plan you leave with.
Built for people who'll decide about AI — not build it.
- › CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of Finance
- › FP&A Leads and Financial Planning Analysts
- › Finance Business Partners, Controllers
- › Audit, Risk and Compliance leads
- › Treasury and Financial Operations leads
No technical background is required. You will not write code. You'll need a laptop and access to any AI tool — ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar
"AI isn't something to fear or resist — it's something to embrace. It takes the repetitive, time-consuming tasks off your plate so you can focus on what actually needs your attention."
- Natalie Suarez
- Recruiter · Abroad Experience International Recruitment
- Participant · AI Augmented HR Masterclass · Breukelen, Netherlands · 23 April 2026
The Knowledge Stewards
Practitioners who have sat in your chair, led organisations through change, and built the frameworks you'll use in this masterclass.
Hareesh Tibrewala is a seasoned entrepreneur and board-level advisor with over three decades of experience, navigating successive waves of technological change and digital transformation.
He co-founded and scaled a digital services firm that became part of the WPP network, partnering with global enterprises as they reimagined growth, customer engagement, and operating models across multiple technology cycles.
Through Manabu, Hareesh now works at the intersection of leadership, learning, and artificial intelligence; helping organisations build enduring capabilities, cultivate future-ready mindsets, and translate emerging technologies into sustained business impact.
Khushboo Sehgal is a specialist in HR and talent acquisition and the Managing Director of Cyber People, where she focuses on aligning critical digital skills with organisational priorities in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
A recognised voice in the cybersecurity ecosystem, she actively shapes industry dialogue through public content, conversations, and podcasts on career pathways, workforce readiness, and emerging trends.
At Manabu, Khushboo brings a practitioner’s perspective to building high-functioning, resilient teams; helping organisations strengthen both their human capital and their security posture for the future.
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Organisations we have worked with.
4th November, 2026
Event Details
Arent Janszoon Ernststraat 577,
Amsterdam, 1082 LD
Things people ask before registering.
Do I need any technical background?
Not at all. These sessions are built for business professionals — HR leaders, finance teams, marketers, operations heads. No coding. No technical jargon. Just practical workflows related to your job role.
Is this just about using ChatGPT better?
No. ChatGPT is a tool. We teach workflows — how your function actually changes when AI is built into the way you work. These workflows are tool agnostic.
Can I use this in my organisation the next day?
That’s the whole point. Every session is built around real problems from your function. You leave with workflows, not notes. Most participants go back and change something specific the very next morning.
Is this relevant for mid-size companies or only large enterprises?
Our workshops are relevant for organisations of every size. Whether a small organisation or a large organisation, we will all need to learn how to use AI in our day to day work.
What's included in the registration fee?
The registration fee enables access to the training workshop. Refreshments (snacks / lunch / dinner) will be as per workshop format. We do not sell you any products or services during the workshop.
How is this different from an online AI course?
An online course teaches you about AI. This session works through AI with you — on problems from your actual function, in a group of peers doing similar work. You can pause, question, push back, and go deeper. That back and forth is what makes it stick.
Is parking available at the venue?
Yes. Element by Marriot Amsterdam has on-site parking available at €2.50 per hour. EV charging stations are also available on-site.
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DATE
Wednesday, 4th November 2026
TIME
13:30 - 17:00 GMT+1
VENUE
Element by Marriot Amsterdam
PRICE
€250 per person
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