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The Claude Finance Playbook

Learn to work with AI today, or be replaced by someone who has.

A Claude AI course for finance professionals, built on real finance work.

1,000+hours of Claude on real client work
50+finance professionals trained
1-to-1training, also delivered to teams
2 hoursper session, number of sessions set by your needs
OnlineWeekdays, as well as weekends
Why this is different

Not another generic AI course. A practising CFO training you on the real work.

Taught by someone who does the work.

A practising CFO doing real client work every day, not an AI influencer.

Real deliverables, not toy prompts.

Models, forecasts, budgets and board packs, the work you actually do.

Know the risks, and control them.

Control hallucination, prove the numbers tie out, make Claude ask instead of guess.

Built on your work, safely.

We agree what is safe to share first, and can start on a copy that mirrors your business before Claude touches real data.

One-to-one, or for your team.

Every session is about your reports and your questions, answered live.

You do not just learn to build one model. You learn the skill, and apply it to everything you do.
Why I built this
I built this because I have watched AI change my own work as a CFO, and I know it is changing yours. The speed is real, and so is the gap it creates between the people who use it well and the people who do not. What surprised me was how few practitioners were teaching it. Most AI training for finance comes from people who have never had to put their name to a board pack. I wanted to offer the opposite: training from someone who uses Claude on real client work every week.
Zain ul Abideen, FCCA
Zain ul Abideen
Who it is for

For finance professionals who want a more productive way to deliver their work, and to be ready for what comes next.

It assumes you know your finance. It is not a beginner's accounting course or a generic introduction to AI.

  • 01

    You want the same standard in less time

    Reporting, reconciliations, forecasts and board packs. You learn a faster way to produce them, and still check and sign every number.

  • 02

    You want to be ready before the change arrives

    AI is reshaping finance roles now. You would rather learn the new way on your own work than catch up later.

  • 03

    You lead a team and want everyone working this way

    One shared way of working with Claude, so the gains belong to the team, not to one person.

What you leave with

Prompts expire. Skills don't.

I am not selling you an AI agent.
I am teaching you to build your own.

Most AI training hands you prompts to copy and steps to repeat, and within months they are out of date. The ability to turn your own knowledge into a working agent is not. That is what I teach: how to bring Claude into your world and build agents for your own work. Nobody understands your work, your numbers and your standards better than you.

Your own agents.

Built by you, on your own reports and systems, so you understand how they work.

A skill that transfers.

Build one agent and you can build the next, for any task, long after the sessions end.

No dependence on us.

The know-how stays with you and your team, not with a vendor or an IT project.

How it works

Four steps to your first session.

A simple process, so you know exactly what happens next.

01

Tell us what you need

Email us your role and the work you want Claude to take on. We send a short questionnaire to understand your needs.

02

Get your proposal

We send a written plan and fee fitted to you, as soon as possible. A discovery call is available on request.

03

Agree the details

We agree dates and times that suit you, on weekdays or weekends. You sign a short agreement and pay by card or bank transfer.

04

Start

Your first session begins with your own work. Each session builds on the last, with support in between.

Practice between sessions

After each session, you apply what we built to one of your own reports. You bring the results and any questions to the next session.

Direct support

A WhatsApp line to Zain for questions while you test and build.

At your times

Two hours per session, with the number of sessions set by your needs. Online, on weekdays or weekends, around your reporting calendar and time zone.

Example plans

Three programmes we have scoped recently.

One-to-one · 4 sessions

Procurement and financial reporting

An individual already using AI daily, who wanted routine reports to run themselves
  • Procurement reporting agent: spend, suppliers and stock
  • Financial reporting agent: variances, forecast and cash flow
  • Reusable skills for each report
8 hours · weekends
Team · 5 sessions

Monthly reporting for a finance team

A team of five, moving from occasional AI use to a repeatable monthly reporting process
  • Management pack agent, from system data to a finished pack
  • Variance commentary drafted against prior months
  • Each team member builds a reusable workflow for their most repeated task
11 hours · whole team
One-to-one · 7 sessions

Multi-entity group reporting

A finance leader in a growing group with several entities
  • Monthly reporting and budget versus actual
  • Revenue, forecasting and the multi-entity close
  • Board reporting and transaction work
14 hours · weekdays

Details simplified and anonymised. Your plan is written around your own work.

What people say

From finance people who have worked with Zain.

Zain ul Abideen is a CFO and a qualified accountant with a deep understanding of this technology, and a very clear view of the concrete actions and skills needed to demystify AI for finance productivity. My session with Zain changed my view and clarified my path.
AH Atif HasanStrategy and Growth CFO
In one week: 13+ entities, thousands of trial balance rows, almost 20 reconciliation cycles, and zero imbalances. Training with Zain has become an ongoing way of working.
AE Ashhad EmaduddinKORE Consulting
I had been using Claude for a while, but the workshop showed me better ways to use it in my daily finance work, and features I had not properly explored.
AM Abdul MujeebFinancial Controller, UAE
Work we did manually can now be done in minutes. This changed how I approach my work.
IS Ibrahim Bin SalamFinance Manager, Geocon Constructions
Practical, on how Claude actually fits into finance workflows. Tangible rather than theoretical, and I came away with ideas I want to try this week.
AS Ahsan SharifLead Financial Analyst, UK public sector
Zain is an excellent presenter and the material was great. Definitely worth attending.
CS Charlotte Hartley SmithCFO, Smart Salem
Methodical and well-structured, with deep expertise in applying Claude to real-world financial scenarios.
MM Muhammad Majid Mahmood, ACCAFinance Specialist, multinational manufacturing group
Questions finance teams ask

Claude AI training for finance teams: common questions

I have hardly used Claude. Can I still start?

Yes. Session one sets you up properly before we build anything. You need to know your finance, not AI.

Will we work on our real data?

You decide. We agree what is safe to share in session one. Where your data cannot be used, we work on a copy built to mirror your business, then you apply it to the real thing.

Which Claude subscription do I need?

A paid Claude plan. We help you choose the right plan and seat, and which model to use for each task, so you do not pay more than you need. We do not sell subscriptions or receive any commission on them.

How long does a programme take?

Each session is two hours, and the number of sessions is decided by what you need. Sessions run online on weekdays or weekends, scheduled around your diary and your month-end.

Can my company pay?

Yes. We invoice your company, and you can pay by card through a secure link or by bank transfer.

Do I get CPD?

Yes. Every participant receives a certificate for the hours attended, to record with their professional body.

What happens after the last session?

You keep everything you built. If further sessions would help, we agree them with you.

Start here

Tell us what is taking up your week.

Your role, whether it is for you or your team, and the work you would like Claude to take on. We reply within one working day.

Not ready yet? Watch the work on the Claude for Finance YouTube channel, or join The Circle.
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