Artificial Intelligence in Treasury Management Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Treasury Managers, Cash and Liquidity Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-TI-048

Before you join: Participants should understand core treasury activities such as cash positioning, bank accounts, cash forecasting, funding, payments, FX exposure or short-term investments.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Course overview

Treasury teams hold large volumes of cash, bank, payment, market and counterparty data, yet many decisions still depend on spreadsheets, manual exceptions and fragmented reporting. Artificial intelligence can improve forecast accuracy, identify unusual payment activity, support liquidity allocation and provide earlier warning of market or counterparty risk. Its value depends on disciplined data preparation, transparent model design, clear decision rights and controls that fit treasury policy.

This course examines practical AI applications across cash forecasting, liquidity management, payment controls, foreign exchange exposure, short-term investments and counterparty monitoring. Participants learn how machine-learning models differ from rules-based automation, how to assess prediction quality, and how to convert model outputs into funding, hedging and investment decisions. The programme also addresses generative AI for treasury analysis, including retrieval-augmented generation, source checking, confidential-data handling and prompt-injection controls.

Teaching combines focused instructor briefings with treasury cases, group analysis, model-review simulations and implementation planning. Cases reflect common corporate and financial-sector situations, such as a multinational managing multi-currency cash positions, a bank investigating suspicious payments, and a treasury function assessing investment concentration. Participants leave with a prioritised AI use-case portfolio, a model governance checklist, a cash-forecast evaluation framework and a 90-day application plan for their own treasury environment.

The course is suited to treasury professionals who already understand core cash, funding, payments or risk processes and now need to assess, specify, supervise or use AI-enabled decision tools. It is equally relevant to finance, risk, technology and audit professionals supporting treasury transformation.

What you will be able to do

  • Prioritise treasury AI use cases using value, feasibility, data readiness and risk criteria
  • Build an evaluation framework for machine-learning cash forecasts using MAE, RMSE, MAPE and bias
  • Assess AI-generated liquidity recommendations against funding limits, cash-pooling structures and treasury policy
  • Design payment anomaly detection controls with thresholds, alert triage and escalation rules
  • Evaluate AI-supported FX and investment recommendations using exposure, risk and policy constraints
  • Apply retrieval-augmented generation controls to treasury documents and internal knowledge sources
  • Establish model governance requirements covering validation, monitoring, overrides and audit trails
  • Produce a 90-day treasury AI implementation plan with pilots, owners, controls and success measures

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Assess vendor and internal AI proposals with treasury-specific evaluation criteria
  • Explain forecast accuracy, uncertainty and model limitations to senior stakeholders
  • Specify data requirements for cash, payments, FX and investment AI applications
  • Recognise control weaknesses in automated payment and liquidity recommendations
  • Create a credible treasury AI pilot proposal for immediate workplace discussion

For your organisation

  • Improved cash forecast measurement and earlier identification of liquidity pressure
  • Better prioritisation of AI investment against treasury value and control requirements
  • Stronger payment-monitoring design with documented investigation and escalation rules
  • Reduced model-risk exposure through validation, monitoring and audit-trail requirements
  • Clearer coordination between treasury, technology, risk, compliance and internal audit

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can identify, assess and prioritise AI opportunities linked to material treasury decisions.

  • AI use-case inventory linked to treasury decisions and value drivers
  • Distinguishing predictive, prescriptive and generative AI within treasury workflows
  • Decision rights mapped through RACI for cash, risk and payments
  • Materiality thresholds set for automated recommendations and human escalation
  • Benefits cases quantify forecast accuracy, liquidity savings and control effects
  • Use-case prioritisation with value, feasibility, data readiness and risk scores

Participants can assess whether treasury data is suitable for AI analysis and model development.

  • Data lineage from ERP, bank statements, TMS and market feeds
  • ISO 20022 camt and pain messages assessed for cash-data usability
  • Master-data controls for entities, bank accounts, currencies and counterparties
  • Missing values, duplicates and timing breaks diagnosed before model training
  • Feature definitions document calendar effects, payment terms and cash drivers
  • Data quality scorecards assign owners, thresholds, exceptions and remediation dates

Participants can evaluate machine-learning cash forecasts against treasury forecasting requirements and baseline methods.

  • 13-week rolling cash forecasts structured by entity, currency and horizon
  • Baseline forecast accuracy measured with MAE, RMSE, MAPE and bias
  • Regression, random forest and gradient boosting compared against baseline methods
  • Feature engineering captures seasonality, payroll cycles, invoices and collections
  • Backtesting separates training, validation and holdout periods without data leakage
  • Prediction intervals translate uncertainty into liquidity buffers and funding actions

Participants can interpret AI-supported liquidity recommendations within funding, pooling and policy constraints.

  • Daily cash positioning combines bank balances, intraday flows and forecast receipts
  • Cash concentration recommendations respect pooling structures, trapped cash and limits
  • Working-capital signals identify late collections, payment runs and unusual outflows
  • Scenario trees test rate shocks, delayed receipts and supplier disruptions
  • Liquidity-at-risk estimates quantify adverse cash positions at stated confidence levels
  • Funding decisions compare overdrafts, revolvers, deposits and money-market alternatives

Participants can design AI-assisted payment monitoring with practical investigation and escalation controls.

  • Payment anomaly detection scores beneficiaries, amounts, timing and approval patterns
  • Supervised classification distinguishes confirmed fraud cases from legitimate exceptions
  • Unsupervised clustering identifies novel payment behaviour without labelled outcomes
  • False-positive rates calibrated against investigation capacity and payment urgency
  • Alert triage routes cases using thresholds, evidence and escalation rules
  • Segregation-of-duties controls remain effective when AI flags or recommends payments

Participants can assess AI-supported FX and risk signals without exceeding approved risk limits.

  • FX exposure data aggregates forecast, committed and balance-sheet currency positions
  • Time-series signals support hedge timing while preserving approved hedge policy
  • Value at Risk compares parametric, historical simulation and Monte Carlo approaches
  • Stress tests model currency gaps, basis movements and counterparty deterioration
  • Hedge recommendations document objective, instrument, limits and residual exposure
  • Explainability reports show drivers, sensitivities and confidence behind risk signals

Participants can review AI-supported investment and counterparty recommendations against treasury policy.

  • Short-term investment allocation considers liquidity tiers, duration, yield and concentration
  • Credit-scoring inputs combine ratings, spreads, financials and payment behaviour
  • Counterparty limits monitored against exposure, collateral, wrong-way risk and concentration
  • Optimisation constraints encode investment policy, eligible instruments and maturity limits
  • Expected shortfall supplements Value at Risk for tail-loss assessment
  • Recommendation logs preserve market data, assumptions, approvals and execution evidence

Participants can apply generative AI to treasury analysis while protecting data and maintaining review controls.

  • Retrieval-augmented generation grounds treasury assistants in approved policy documents
  • Prompt patterns extract covenant terms, bank fees and cash-report exceptions
  • Source citations and confidence cues support review of generated outputs
  • Sensitive data redaction protects account details, payroll and counterparty information
  • Human review gates control drafting, analysis and external communications
  • Prompt-injection tests expose unsafe instructions and unauthorised data requests

Participants can establish governance requirements for treasury AI models and automated recommendations.

  • Model inventory records purpose, owner, inputs, outputs and decision impact
  • Model risk tiering considers materiality, autonomy, complexity and data sensitivity
  • Validation plans test performance, stability, bias and conceptual soundness
  • Drift monitoring tracks feature shifts, accuracy decline and alert volumes
  • NIST AI RMF functions organise governance, mapping, measurement and management
  • Audit trails retain versions, approvals, overrides and exceptions for assurance

Participants can prepare a controlled treasury AI pilot and a practical 90-day implementation plan.

  • Target operating model assigns treasury, technology, risk and audit responsibilities
  • Pilot charters define decision scope, success metrics, controls and exit criteria
  • Integration architecture connects TMS, ERP, banks, data platforms and dashboards
  • Vendor due diligence examines data rights, security, support and model transparency
  • Change plans address analyst adoption, procedure updates and control ownership
  • 90-day application plan sequences quick wins, dependencies, funding and governance

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Treasury AI use-case prioritisation matrix
  2. Cash forecast accuracy evaluation template
  3. Payment anomaly detection control checklist
  4. Treasury AI model governance checklist
  5. AI pilot charter template
  6. 90-day treasury AI application plan

Who should attend

  • Treasury Managers — responsible for cash, funding, banking and technology decisions
  • Cash and Liquidity Managers — seeking stronger forecasting and daily positioning methods
  • Treasury Analysts — preparing data, reports and recommendations for treasury decisions
  • FX and Financial Risk Managers — assessing AI support for exposure and hedge decisions
  • Finance Transformation Managers — defining treasury automation, data and operating-model requirements
  • Internal Audit and Risk Professionals — reviewing AI controls, model governance and evidence trails

Skills and tools covered

AI use-case prioritisationCash forecast modellingPayment anomaly detectionLiquidity risk analysisModel risk governanceTreasury AI implementation

Tools and standards

NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO 20022, Python, Power BI

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish treasury AI methods, followed by sector-based cases, group analysis and structured simulations. Participants interpret cash-forecast results, review payment alerts, compare risk recommendations and identify control gaps in sample AI workflows. Facilitated discussion connects model outputs to treasury policy, approval limits and operational constraints. Each participant develops an application plan using a use-case prioritisation method, governance checklist and pilot-charter structure that can be adapted to their organisation.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should understand core treasury activities such as cash positioning, bank accounts, cash forecasting, funding, payments, FX exposure or short-term investments. Experience using spreadsheets and interpreting treasury reports is assumed. Familiarity with a treasury management system, ERP or bank portal is useful but not essential. The course does not require programming, Python, data-science qualifications or prior machine-learning experience. Participants will work with model concepts, governance methods and treasury decision cases rather than build production software.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand core treasury processes such as cash forecasting, payments, liquidity, funding, FX or investments. Programming and machine-learning experience are not required; models are assessed from a treasury decision and governance perspective.

Bring a laptop if permitted by your organisation and any non-confidential examples of treasury reporting, pain points or proposed AI initiatives. Do not bring bank account details, customer information, payment files or other restricted data.

The course is designed for treasury managers, analysts, cash managers, financial risk professionals and finance transformation staff. It also suits risk, compliance and internal audit professionals who review treasury AI controls.

This course focuses on treasury decisions: cash forecasting, liquidity, payments, FX, investments and counterparty risk. It addresses model outputs, controls, policy limits and implementation requirements rather than software engineering or advanced coding.

Participants can assess existing vendor proposals, improve requirements for internal technology teams and define suitable pilot controls. The takeaways provide structures for use-case selection, forecast evaluation, model governance and implementation planning.

Training runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day, with about 6.5 contact hours daily. Time is divided across ten modules covering use cases, data, forecasting, liquidity, payments, risk, generative AI, governance and implementation planning.

Questions about this course?

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