Technology in Financial Reporting: Automation, Data & Standards Implementation
Every accounting standard is now also a systems project — the entities that struggle with new standards are usually struggling with their data.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Modern reporting failures are rarely accounting failures — they are data and process failures wearing accounting clothes. This programme works the technology layer of the reporting function: the close automated where automation is safe, with controls preserved and audit trails intact; the data architecture behind the statements — charts of accounts, mappings, reconciliations — treated as reporting infrastructure; digital filing and tagging obligations handled properly; and standards implementation as the systems project it really is: requirements from the standard, data sourced, calculations engineered, outputs controlled. For finance professionals who own the close, not for technologists.
What you will do
Who attends
Financial reporting and consolidation managers; finance systems owners; accountants on standards-implementation projects; auditors assessing automated reporting.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The automated close
- What to automate first: reconciliations, journals, intercompany
- Controls in automated processes: preserved, not assumed
- AI in the reporting function: real uses and their guardrails
II.The data layer
- Chart of accounts and mappings as infrastructure with owners
- Data quality measured where the statements are built
- Digital filing and tagging: obligations met by design
III.Standards as projects
- From standard text to system requirements
- Data sourcing, calculation engines, output controls
- Parallel runs, evidence and the auditor’s comfort
Frequently asked
Do these programmes cover the Basel III final reforms and the ICAAP/ILAAP cycle?
Yes. The BIZENIUS banking curriculum is built around the Basel III endgame, ICAAP, ILAAP, IRRBB, IFRS 9 provisioning, stress testing and BCBS 239. Participants leave able to quantify the output floor on their own portfolios, write capital and liquidity documents that withstand supervisory review, and defend the numbers to their board.
Are the programmes adapted to regional supervisors such as SAMA, CBUAE or BCEAO?
Casework is built around supervisory documents rather than textbook theory, and faculty include former practitioners who have sat on both sides of an examination. Programmes address the questions SAMA, CBUAE, BCEAO and other home regulators actually put to the desk, and an in-house edition can be tailored to a single jurisdiction.
How do I secure a seat on a banking programme?
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Can a programme run in-house for our bank?
Every BIZENIUS programme can be delivered in-house, tailored to your balance sheet, your regulator and your data, in English or French. Many institutions start with an open cohort, then commission a private edition for the wider team.
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