This IBM Professional Certificate builds the budgeting, modeling, forecasting, and AI skills that define a modern financial planning and analysis (FP&A) career — no prior FP&A or coding experience required. Using IBM Planning Analytics and a watsonx-powered assistant, you will move from finance fundamentals through driver-based planning, Excel modeling, variance analysis, predictive forecasting, scenario design, and executive storytelling, applying generative AI responsibly at every step. You will graduate able to build driver-based models, run variance and forecast analysis, design scenario and sensitivity views, and communicate findings to executives — job-ready for FP&A Analyst and senior analyst roles.
Applied Learning Project
Every course sets its hands-on labs inside Acme Mutual, a proxy enterprise insurer with the product lines, regional reporting, and capital decisions of a real FP&A organization, and a multi-stage capstone has you run the full lifecycle on its data — selecting drivers, building a model, analyzing variance, forecasting with AI, designing scenarios, and assembling an executive pack with embedded governance evidence. The result is a portfolio-grade work sample you can show employers as proof of end-to-end, AI-augmented FP&A competency.




















