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Smart Finance
Leveraging AI for Enhanced Financial Planning and Analysis
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Supercharge your financial planning and analysis with AI Smart Finance: Leveraging AI for Enhanced Financial Planning and Analysis, by Christian Martinez, is an essential guide for finance professionals ready to harness AI's transformative capabilities. Martinez draws on his extensive experience as a finance executive responsible for...
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Supercharge your financial planning and analysis with AI
Smart Finance: Leveraging AI for Enhanced Financial Planning and Analysis, by Christian Martinez, is an essential guide for finance professionals ready to harness AI's transformative capabilities. Martinez draws on his extensive experience as a finance executive responsible for implementing AI solutions in global enterprises to bring you a hands-on strategy guide for building new and exciting financial planning and analysis capabilities. You’ll learn to deliver faster insights, tighter forecasts, and more focused recommendations while your competitors struggle to keep pace. You’ll also discover how commercially available AI tools like ChatGPT, Python, and automation platforms can revolutionise every aspect of financial planning and analysis – from monthly closes to strategic decision-making.
The book provides a comprehensive roadmap through the four levels of analytics – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive – showing you how AI can expand and enhance your professional offerings at each stage. Martinez demystifies complex technologies, explaining machine learning, large language models, and generative AI in practical terms that connect directly to daily finance work.
Instead of assuming an extensive technical or coding background, Smart Finance teaches you how to communicate effectively with AI tools through prompt engineering, showing you how to generate Python code without programming knowledge. It explains how to build automated workflows using code-based and no-code solutions. Along the way, you’ll find real-world use cases drawn from the author’s work with over 15,000 professionals that highlight how you can apply the book’s lessons in your own work, today.
Explore:
- Master prompt engineering techniques specifically designed for financial planning, forecasting, and analysis workflows
- Generate Python scripts through AI to automate data cleaning, report building, trend analysis, and forecasting without programming expertise
- Build AI-enhanced dashboards and reports that deliver executive summaries, variance commentary, and diagnostic insights in minutes instead of hours
- Implement predictive analytics using tools like Prophet and scikit-learn with AI-generated support to create accurate revenue, cost, and cash flow forecasts
- Automate repetitive FP&A tasks using Power Query, n8n, Make, Zapier, and other workflow tools to dramatically reduce month-end cycles
Smart Finance is perfect for CFOs, financial analysts, FP&A managers, controllers, and finance executives interested in offering more agile, accurate, and forward-looking services. It’s also a must-read for business leaders, data scientists, and AI enthusiasts interested in taking advantage of the extraordinary potential of artificial intelligence in financial applications. You’ll find actionable capabilities to accelerate analysis, improve forecast accuracy, and elevate your strategic contribution to your clients and your company that will change the way you work, forever.
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ISBN: 9781394369164
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 30 April 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Weight: 250g
Pages: 272
About the Author
CHRISTIAN MARTINEZ is Senior Manager of Finance Transformation at Kraft Heinz, where he defines and drives global finance analytics strategy. A trusted voice among senior finance leaders and CFOs with 45,000 LinkedIn followers, Martinez has trained over 15,000 professionals through LinkedIn Learning courses on AI and finance topics. He was named to Accounts Daily’s 30 under 30 in Finance & Accounting and was a finalist for Young Leaders in Finance Australia’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Martinez speaks frequently at major conferences including World Summit AI and the World Finance Forum.
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