Degree RNCP-Accredited, Level 7, 6 years of higher education
Entry Requirement: Bac+5
Duration: 12 months
Credits: 75 ECTS
Format: Work-study, initial, or continuing education
Language: French
Campus: Paris-Villejuif
Start date: October 2027

MSc · Starting October 2027 · Paris-Villejuif

MSc AI & Data for Finance & AccountingThe Bac+6 in AI & Data for financial professions

The Bac+6 in AI and Data dedicated to the professions of Finance, Accounting, Audit, and Management Control. No programming prerequisites.

Work-Study Alternating Internship Initial Training Continuing Education Diploma Update Guarantee©

Recognized by the State: RNCP Level 7 title. Artificial Intelligence Solutions Development Project Manager · RNCP 38584 · Certifying body: aivancity.

12 months Duration
75 ECTS Credits
350 hours Academic training
6 Finance AI Products
2 Certifications

Why now

Finance isn’t going away. It’s evolving.

AI isn’t just arriving in finance departments. It’s already there. And it affects, first and foremost, the activities that have historically made up entry-level professional experience: production, analysis, control, reporting, forecasting, and information processing.

This shift is already starting to change access to financial professions. Junior hiring is slowing in several functions, because the tasks traditionally assigned to beginners are precisely the ones AI and automation take on first.

In the United States, entry-level job postings in accounting and finance have declined by around 30 % since 2019, while several industry analyses estimate that 40 to 50 % of accounting tasks could be automated or heavily augmented by AI.

Generative AI can already analyze, synthesize, explain, and produce. AI agents go further: they can search for information, interact with systems, trigger actions, check a result, and chain several tasks together within a single process.

The professional’s value will no longer lie solely in producing information, but increasingly in the ability to:

Question Orchestrate Challenge Decide Influence Assume

AI automates part of the work. It increases the value of what remains deeply human. Financial professions aren’t disappearing: their center of gravity is shifting.

 

What the numbers say

The first rung of the career ladder is changing.

59 %

of finance departments already use AI. Adoption rose from 37 % in 2023 to 59 % in 2025. Among the most common uses: knowledge management, accounts payable automation, and error and anomaly detection.

Gartner, AI in Finance Survey 2025

80.5 %

of Finance and Accounting professionals believe generative AI and AI agents could become standard tools in their profession within the next five years.

Deloitte, Center for Controllership, 2025

41 %

of employers plan to reduce headcount where AI will automate certain tasks. The WEF already ranks accountants and auditors among the professions expected to see falling headcount by 2030.

World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025

39 %

of the skills currently used on the job are expected to be transformed or become obsolete by 2030. At the same time, AI and Data top the list of skills expected to see the fastest-growing demand.

World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025

Yesterday

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Tomorrow

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What’s changing isn’t just the tool. It’s the value expected of the professional.

 

The promise of the MSc

You already know Finance. Now learn to transform it.

The MSc AI & Data for Finance & Accounting is designed for Bac+5 graduates already trained in Finance, Accounting, Audit, and Management Control. Its aim isn’t to repeat their financial education, but to give them the second skill that has become essential: mastery of AI and Data.

Neither Data Scientists. Nor AI engineers.

The program doesn’t aim to turn financial professionals into software development specialists. It makes them able to understand, use, build, and steer AI & Data solutions within their own professional environment.

  • Use and derive value from financial data
  • Apply predictive models to anticipate and decide
  • Build assistants based on generative AI
  • Design and steer AI agents
  • Intelligently automate financial processes
  • Scope and run AI projects
  • Assess their value, costs, and risks
  • Govern data and AI usage
  • Rethink the processes and organization of the Finance function

Finance+Data+AI

Three skills now inseparable for taking part in the transformation of the finance function.

Dual recognition

Degree aivancity Bac+6 Degree
RNCP Level 7 Title Artificial Intelligence Solutions Development Project Manager RNCP 38584 · Certifying body: aivancity

The title certifies skills in Data, Artificial Intelligence, AI solutions development, results valuation, and AI project steering, applied here to Finance, Accounting, Audit, and Management Control challenges.

 

Six capabilities + discernment

Master → Augment → Build → Govern → Steer → Transform

What graduates can do by the end of the program, from the technical foundations to transforming the function.

Master

Understand technology well enough to act with it.

The goal isn’t to become an AI engineer, but to reach the level of mastery needed to select, use, challenge, and steer the technologies.

Augment

Put AI and Data to work for financial professions.

Identify tasks that can be accelerated, enriched, automated, or rethought thanks to new technologies.

Build

Move from using AI to creating solutions.

Design and prototype solutions able to respond, analyze, control, and decide within a defined framework, and act on the company’s systems.

Govern

Make AI a trustworthy tool.

Assess risks, protect data, define controls, and ensure AI systems remain traceable, auditable, and under human oversight.

Steer

Turn an AI idea into a value-creating project.

Know where to invest in AI, how to run the project, and how to measure the value actually created.

Transform

Rethink the Finance function for a world where humans and agents collaborate.

Stop asking only « How can I use AI in this process? Â» and start rethinking the process itself.

Discern

When AI can produce an answer, value shifts toward the quality of the question and the decision.

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Master the technology without handing it your judgment.

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Let’s discuss your plans.

Receive the complete brochure, admission requirements, and key dates. Our advisors will answer your questions about the program, the work-study option, and financing.

  • Bac+6 for graduates with a Bac+5 in Finance / Accounting / Audit / Management Control
  • No programming prerequisites for admission
  • Work-Study, Alternating Internship, initial or continuing education
 

One program. Several ways to experience it.

The same level of rigor, the same skills, the same degree.

The MSc was designed to adapt to different statuses, while guaranteeing every student the same course of study. Fees and financing details are provided on the Admissions tab.

Work-Study

Learn at school. Transform in the company.

1 week at aivancity · 3 weeks at a company

Apprenticeship or professional training contract. Skills acquired are progressively applied to real Finance, Accounting, Audit, or Management Control challenges.

Eligibility: be a national of the European Union, or an international student residing in France with at least one year of higher education completed in France.

Alternating Internship

The same rhythm, with an internship agreement.

1 week at aivancity · 3 weeks at a company

A format particularly suited to students who want to combine academic training with professional immersion right away.

Full-Time Initial Training

An intensive course of study, followed by professional immersion.

Professional internship of at least 4 months

Periods outside seminars are devoted to the Finance AI Portfolio, certifications, projects, and supervised work. The AI Clinic can serve as a testing ground. A format suited to international students arriving in France for the first time.

Continuing Education

Add AI & Data to your expertise without interrupting your career.

Adapted schedule

Open to professionals looking to develop new AI and Data expertise applied to the finance function while continuing their career.

See fees and financing by modality 

The program, at a glance

From mastering Data to orchestrating AI.

11 weeks of seminars · 24 hours of classes + 6 hours of Finance AI Portfolio per week · 350 hours · 75 ECTS

01

Master & Augment

From financial data to an AI-ready infrastructure. Seminars 1 to 3.

02

Predict & Build

From analyzing data to creating AI solutions. Seminars 4 to 6.

03

Act, Orchestrate & Govern

When AI stops just answering and starts acting. Seminars 7 to 9.

04

Steer, Transform & Discern

Create value with AI and redesign the Finance function. Seminars 10 and 11.

See the detail of all 11 seminars 

Careers, at a glance

Augmented finance roles, new hybrid positions.

The MSc prepares graduates both to advance existing financial professions and to take on the roles born from the meeting of Finance, Data, and AI.

Augmented Management Controller Augmented Financial Analyst Augmented Auditor Augmented Accounting & Reporting Specialist AI & Data Project Manager (Finance) Finance AI Transformation Consultant AI Product Owner (Finance)

See all augmented roles and hybrid positions 

The experience, at a glance

11 weeks of seminars
24 h + 6 h classes + portfolio / week
20 hours of online Boarding (LinkedIn Learning)
6 Finance AI Products
2 professional certifications
1 + 3 1 week at school / 3 weeks at a company

Learn → Experiment → Build → Apply → Transform

 

Why aivancity

An MSc that prepares Finance for the age of AI must be designed by a school built for AI.

aivancity is a French Grande École dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Data. It didn’t add AI to a traditional teaching model: it was built around it.

1stEduniversal 2026 ranking of schools specialized in AI & Data Science, for the 3rd consecutive year.
5 PalmsEduniversal Schools of Excellence in AI & IT, awarded in 2025.
10,000+professionals trained in AI.
250+partner companies.
50international agreements and partnerships in more than 20 countries.
10 yearsof diploma update guarantee© for the Grande École program; 5 years for MSc graduates.

AI isn’t a subject added to the program. It’s the environment the program was designed in.

You already know Finance.
Now learn to transform it.

The information presented on this page is provided for informational purposes only and is not contractually binding. Given the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence and Data, aivancity reserves the right to modify the program content, certifications, terms and conditions, schedule, and fees. The final terms and conditions are those communicated at the time of enrollment.