CFOs are experimenting with AI use cases to free up capacity for business-critical work. Generative AI has the potential to transform the finance function. By taking on some of the more mundane tasks that can occupy a lot of time, generative AI tools can help free up capacity for more high-value strategic work. For chief financial officers, this could mean spending more time and energy on proactively advising the business on financial strategy as organizations around the world continue to weather ongoing geopolitical and financial uncertainty. CFOs can use large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools to support everyday tasks like generating quarterly reports, communicating with investors, and formulating strategic summaries, says Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris professor and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "LLMs can't replace the CFO by any means, but they can take a lot of the drudgery out of the role by providing first drafts of documents that summarize key issues and outline strategic priorities."

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As AI proliferates, it is not just data scientists who need to learn AI. AI Literacy is fast becoming a requirement for professionals from all industries. I recently participated in an overview of AI for Finance Professionals, organized by SLASSCOM Sri Lanka for finance professionals in Asia. While there are thousands of AI techniques and tools available, the AI lifecycle in business tends to follow a predictable pattern - shown in Figure 1. The lifecycle begins with an identification of the business need.

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Over the next two years, 75% of finance professionals believe their day jobs will significantly change, and 83% said they will have to learn new skills for AI and related technologies, according to a survey of finance processionals around the world from Unit4, a cloud leader in enterprise software. Above: More technical knowledge may be helpful, but the survey shows a surprising lack of emphasis on strategic leadership skills; only a quarter say interpersonal and influencing will be essential for future finance professionals. And only 21% think story telling will be important. In the next 12 months, more than four fifths of respondents are expecting to focus this upskilling on AI, machine learning, coding, analytics and data science capabilities, but a third of respondents accept that their organizations will need to grow their teams to fully implement the new technology, Unit4 said.

All this while, we have seen wide applications of technology in every industry that we can think of. One of the greatest innovations on the technological front is that of Artificial intelligence. AI has made it way easier to handle tasks and getting them accomplished. When AI continued to see immense implementation in every field, one sector that lagged a little was the finance sector. However, this is no longer what we get to see these days.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have already transformed industries and changed the way work gets done across the enterprise. While finance has traditionally lagged behind other departments in the AI adoption curve, that's starting to change. Adoption of AI in finance is being spurred by digital natives (professionals who grew up in a connected world), with tech solutions finally delivering on the promise of AI/ML. Finance professionals accustomed to modern technology experiences in other areas of their lives are no longer willing to endure painstaking manual reviews and the threat of inaccurate data in their forecasts and plans. Outside of finance, many other areas of the businesses are far beyond cutting their teeth when it comes to using AI to improve forecasting and drive decision-making.

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Just about a year ago, before the world was locked down, the big fear was technology taking over jobs. But, over the extended global lockdown, humans seem to have discovered greater faith in technology and machines, according to Oracle's Money and Machines: 2020 Global Study that was conducted across 9,000 consumers and business leaders in 14 countries. India is among the top three geographies including Japan and China where 83 per cent of Indians and 88 per cent of business leaders now trust artificial intelligence (AI) more than humans to manage finance. Across Asia-Pacific, 76 per cent of consumers said they would trust a robot more than a financial adviser, while at a global level it was 67 per cent. Covid-led financial anxiety, and sadness among both consumers and business leaders more than doubled in 2020.

MORE than half of the 11 finance roles picked for a study will be moderately to highly changed by technology in the next three to five years. Those in the two most junior roles will likely be taken over by machines, while the most senior roles will be least affected, a new study showed. The study, entitled "Redefining the Finance Function with Job Redesign", said the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital transformation. Within the next three to five years, there could be a wider adoption of technological enablers such as robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics/Big Data and blockchain. This shift will have a pronounced impact on the finance functions of 2025, according to the study, conducted by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd (EY).

The explosion in data that has launched the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era when business will be transformed by cyber-physical systems, has enabled several technology trends to develop. Every business can leverage these important trends and should pay attention to how best to use them, but accountants should really evaluate how these six technologies can be used strategically to achieve the company's business strategy. Data is crucial to make business financial decisions. Today, data isn't just numbers and spreadsheets that accountants have been familiar with for years; it also includes unstructured data that can be analyzed through natural language processing. This can allow for real-time status monitoring of financial matters.