Turning Finance Teams Into Growth Drivers with AI with Julio Martínez #247 - SaaS District | Lyssna här

Julio Martínez is the Co-Founder and CEO of Abacum, an AI-native FP&A platform built to help finance teams drive efficient growth and deliver real business impact. With Abacum, he focuses on turning finance into a strategic function by giving teams real-time visibility into their KPIs, automating reporting, and enabling better forecasting, planning, and decision-making across the organization.

Before founding Abacum, Julio spent over two decades across finance and technology, beginning his career in investment banking in New York, São Paulo, Zurich, and London. He later transitioned into tech, where he launched multiple fintech products and deepened his focus on building solutions for modern finance teams. Originally from Spain and now based in New York, Julio brings a global perspective and a practical, operator-driven mindset to helping companies scale with greater clarity and control.

In this episode we cover:

00:00 - Intro
01:52 - From Investment Banking to SaaS Finance
05:36 - Why Abacum Was Built
10:07 - Turning Finance Into a Growth Driver
13:38 - AI Trends in the Office of the CFO
18:16 - How AI Is Changing Forecasting and Planning
23:20 - The Biggest Financial Planning Mistakes in SaaS
27:32 - Building a Strategic Finance Function
32:57 - Julio's Favorite Activity To Get Into a Flow State
33:29 - Julio's Piece Of Advice For His Younger Self
35:20 - Julio's Biggest Challenges at Abacum
36:22 - Instrumental Resources For Julio's Success
40:04 - What Does Success Mean for Julio Today
41:42 - Get In Touch With Julio

Get In Touch With Julio:

Julio's LinkedIn

Abacum Website

Books:

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Amp It Up by Frank Slootman

The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh

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