That is why Founderz has partnered with Barcelona Finance School (BFS) to help finance professionals explore these possibilities through practical training connected to the realities of their work.
Barcelona Finance School is the business school of the Institute of Financial Studies (IEF), an institution with a long-standing presence in the financial sector. IEF was originally created to provide training for the financial community, but today its work also includes education, public outreach, debate and research across the field of finance.
Its activities range from professional certifications and executive programs to financial education initiatives for the wider public, as well as the publication of specialist studies and research papers.
This combination of financial expertise, education and industry knowledge fits closely with the way we approach learning at Founderz: practical content, professionals who are active in their fields and technology that can be applied to real-world situations.
How is artificial intelligence changing finance?
Adopting AI in finance is not simply about using new tools. It also means learning to identify which processes can be improved, how information can be analyzed differently and where professional judgment remains essential.
The collaboration between Founderz and Barcelona Finance School covers areas including:
- Financial data analysis using AI.
- Process automation in financial institutions and finance departments.
- The use of artificial intelligence in fintech.
- The creation and use of predictive models to analyze financial scenarios.
- The application of AI to risk management.
- The generation and analysis of financial reporting.
- AI-supported financial planning, budgeting and monitoring.
The goal is not to replace financial expertise with technology, but to learn how to use AI as another tool for working with information, identifying patterns, automating tasks and making decisions with greater context.
Online Master’s in AI in Finance: a Founderz, Barcelona Finance School and Microsoft project
One of the main initiatives to emerge from this partnership is the Online Master’s in AI in Finance, created to help professionals across the financial ecosystem incorporate artificial intelligence and automation into their work.
The program combines the AI education model of Founderz AI Business School, the financial expertise of Barcelona Finance School and technology from Microsoft.
The idea is straightforward: to move artificial intelligence away from being an abstract concept and make it part of the way finance professionals analyze information, organize processes and work with a company’s financial data.
AI applied across the entire finance function
One of the program’s central ideas is that AI can be applied to far more than market analysis or investment.
Throughout the master’s program, students learn how artificial intelligence and automation can be used across different activities within an organization’s finance function, including:
- Accounting and reporting: supporting the processing, analysis and presentation of financial information.
- Cost and margin control: using data to identify patterns and analyze changes in key business variables.
- Planning and budgeting: using AI to work with scenarios, forecasts and large volumes of information.
- Treasury and financing: organizing and analyzing information related to cash flow and financing requirements.
- Strategic business decisions: using data and AI tools to support the evaluation of different alternatives.
- Investment decisions: analyzing information and scenarios while maintaining professional judgment and human oversight.
This connects the learning directly with processes that form part of the day-to-day work of finance departments, consultancies, financial institutions, fintech companies and other professionals involved in the financial management of organizations.
Generative AI tools, dashboards and new financial workflows
The program also explores the advanced use of generative AI for finance, together with the creation of financial dashboards and new ways of working with information and processes.
Working with industry experts such as the program’s Academic Director, Eloi Noya, participants can understand not only what the technology can do, but how to incorporate it thoughtfully into their own professional context.
The program also includes content related to using AI to analyze customers, support acquisition and retention strategies and improve selected business processes connected with financial activity.
After completing the program and submitting the compulsory final project, students receive a certification from Founderz, Barcelona Finance School and Microsoft recognizing the competencies developed during the program.
A partnership that goes beyond the Master’s
The collaboration between Founderz and Barcelona Finance School is not limited to the creation of the Online Master’s in AI in Finance.
BFS is also moving forward with the adoption of Frontierz technology at different stages of its educational experience.
These initiatives include the introduction of AI Fellows, AI-powered learning assistants that can perform different roles depending on the environment in which they are deployed.
At Barcelona Finance School, AI Fellows are being used and explored in areas including:
- Academic guidance through the public BFS website.
- Technical assistance related to the use of its online campus.
- Academic support for participants in selected online programs.
AI Fellows allow some of the experience Founderz has developed around AI-supported learning to be transferred into other educational environments, adapting their role to the stage of the learning journey and the needs of each student.
Learning Paths for financial certifications
The collaboration also includes the incorporation of Learning Paths into selected Barcelona Finance School programs.
These learning pathways make it possible to structure content and guide students through a defined learning journey, including pathways connected with preparation for professional financial certifications.
In this way, the partnership between Founderz and Barcelona Finance School brings together two areas we consider particularly important: training professionals to apply artificial intelligence in finance and, at the same time, exploring how AI itself can improve the learning experience.
Because for us, artificial intelligence is not only something to learn about. It can also become part of the way we learn.