Finance

Building finance tools from domain expertise with AI

AI helps finance leaders turn domain knowledge, models, and workflow ideas into working tools, systems, and prototypes by describing requirements in plain English, testing outputs, and refining logic iteratively.

Why the human is still essential here

The finance professional provides the domain expertise, defines the model structure, evaluates outputs, and decides what is worth building. AI accelerates prototyping and implementation, but human judgment remains essential for assumptions, scenario design, and business decisions.

How people use this

Cash flow forecasting prototype

A finance leader uses AI to turn forecast logic, driver definitions, and business rules into a working cash flow model or lightweight app that can be tested and refined before engineering support is needed.

ChatGPT / Claude

Variance analysis dashboard

AI helps draft the queries, calculations, and interface for an internal dashboard that explains actual-versus-budget variances and highlights the business drivers finance wants leaders to review.

Retool / ChatGPT

Headcount scenario planner

Finance teams use AI-assisted low-code tools to build a planning app that lets managers test hiring, compensation, and attrition scenarios using finance-owned assumptions.

Microsoft Power Apps / Microsoft Copilot

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Why Building a Game With My Son Made AI Click for Me!

Why Building a Game With My Son Made AI Click for Me!
I’m a finance leader, not an engineer.
After watching Indiana win the College Football Playoff National Championship over Miami, my son and I spent the weekend building a college football simulator that lets you run your own program.
Not bought. Not downloaded. Built.
I had no coding background and no experience deploying apps.
But with AI, I could describe what I wanted in plain English, test the output, refine the logic, and keep going.
And in the middle of building it, I realized something:
I had seen this structure before.
The game had:
a data layer
a model layer
a resource allocation layer
a user interface
That is not just game design.
That is also finance.
Actuals. Drivers. Assumptions. Scenarios. Decisions. Dashboards.
That was the moment AI clicked for me.
The real opportunity may not be with people who know the most code. It may be with people who know their domain deeply and now have better tools to build around that expertise.
Finance professionals already know how to think in models.
What AI changes is our ability to turn those ideas into tools, workflows, and systems much faster than before.
That is the part of AI I’m most interested in: practical use cases for finance teams, what is real, what is overhyped, and what is actually worth building.
I’m writing about that here: https://lnkd.in/gtAVGhBb
#AI #Finance #FP&A #CFO #Automation

Aleksandr SutkinVice President of Finance at Autodesk

Mar 20, 2026