AI helps teams that use it carefully. It wastes money for teams that rush. For a finance team the gains are easy to see: hours saved on routine work, and better information for decisions. But you have to start in the right place.
Pick a few real tasks
Begin with work your team already does every week: writing report comments, checking and summarising data, and doing a first look at the numbers. Small, repeated tasks are where AI actually sticks. Do not start with your hardest problem.
Train on your own work
General training does not transfer. People learn fastest using their own files, their own tools, and their own weekly tasks. By the end of the session they should have finished something real.
Set simple rules
Decide three things: what AI may be used for, who checks the result before it is used, and what information must never be put into it. One clear page beats either a total ban or a free-for-all.
The goal is saved hours you can measure, not something new to show off. That is exactly how we run AI Training & Consulting.