The Evolving Role of the CFO (Part 4): AI Creates Leverage - and a Duty to the Next Generation

AI is already inside the finance function — writing the code finance teams couldn't write themselves, doubling personal productivity, and compressing years of experience into moments. But leverage cuts both ways.

In part 4 of The Evolving Role of the CFO, the full panel unpacks:

•     Matthew Williams on unlocking non-ledger data with warehouses, Power Query and AI-written SQL — and why the narrative must never outrun the data

•     Bambo Bamgbose on the double-edged sword in government contracting: cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and AI-drafted bids that miss the compliance quirks only experience catches

•     Nikita Klassen on doubled efficiency — and the fear of not bringing the team along, as research tasks that once developed juniors get answered in seconds

•     David Wray on over-reliance: why the graduating generation could leapfrog today's leaders, and why the real job now is teaching people how to think and to form expectations for the data

•     The new specialisms — data engineers and analytics experts — reshaping the finance function the CFO relies on

Essential listening for leaders working out how to capture AI's upside without losing judgment — or the next generation.

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