Pillar · AI in Finance
AI gives finance leaders genuine leverage, but only after the boring work is done.
Clean data. Governed process. Executive sponsorship. Without those, AI confidently produces wrong numbers faster than people used to. The hard part is the prerequisites, not the prompts.
Proof
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40+ staff trained
AI literacy programme designed and delivered for a mid-market FMCG group. Practitioner-led, finance-specific, governed from the executive layer.
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Board-level governance
AI governance frameworks built for finance functions: usage policies, vendor evaluation, data handling, audit trail. Written to survive a regulator.
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Conference speaker
Speaking on AI in finance at Irish industry events. FCA perspective, not vendor marketing.
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Practitioner, not pundit
Big 4 trained. Twenty years of running finance functions. The transformation work and the AI literacy work are the same problem at different layers.
Reading
- AI Won't Fix a Broken Finance Function December 2025
- Building an AI-Ready Finance Function: The Roadmap February 2026
- Data Quality for AI in Finance: Why Your Data Probably Isn't Ready January 2026
- The CFO's Guide to AI Strategy in 2026 December 2025
- How to Evaluate AI Vendors as a CFO January 2026
- What the board needs to understand about AI governance April 2026
- The ethical bypass problem: how accountants are using AI without thinking it through April 2026
- Is your finance function ready for AI? A five-pillar self-assessment April 2026