Finance function — from budget cycle to cash collection. Understand how Company plans, records, and reports its financial position across every process, and reimagine where AI accelerates without compromising controls. Every recommendation must respect the SOX and audit environment that Finance operates within.
Covers: FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, variance) · Accounting (GL, AP, AR) · Order-to-Cash · Collections · Procurement · Payroll & Compensation · Financial Reporting · Treasury & Compliance
CORE COMPETENCY PILLARS
• Business Process Breadth
• Planning cycle: budget build, rolling forecast, variance review, board pack production
• Record-to-report: journal entries, period close, reconciliations, consolidation
• Order-to-cash: CPQ quote through EBS invoice through collection and recognition
• Procure-to-Pay: Coupa Purchasing, Ironclad Contracts, approvals, invoicing to EBS Payments processing
• Tax: Tax accounting, compliance, and reporting
AI Reimagination Focus
• Opportunity discovery: Run process walkthroughs, identify manual, high-volume, rules-plus-judgment steps, and size the value.
• Prioritization: Score ideas on value, feasibility, control risk, data readiness, and effort.
• Reimagine FP&A: AI-assisted forecasting and variance narrative replaces 3-day Excel cycles
• Reimagine collections: AI-prioritised AR queue over manual aging triage
• Reimagine reporting: natural language answers to CFO and Blackstone queries
• Reimagine Purchasing journey
Transformation & Change
• Every AI action needs a human review gate — SOX compliance is non-negotiable
• Frame AI as control enhancement, not replacement — the only language CFO trusts
• Define success in Finance language: close cycle time, forecast accuracy, DSO, Purchasing turnaround, touch-time per invoice, and audit findings.
Governance & Channelling
• No AI tools touching financial data without IT and InfoSec sign-off
• Sigma and Snowflake replace Excel reporting models — stop spreadsheet proliferation
• Oracle EBS as system of record — no shadow ERPs or parallel financial systems
TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE
Tools they run on today:
• Oracle EBS (GL, AP, FA, CE, AR, billing, revenue recognition)
• Salesforce CPQ (quoting, order management, commercial terms)
• Coupa / Concur (Procurement & Expense & Travel management)
• Ironclad – Vendor Contract management
• Highradius – Collections Management
• Stripe / Flywire/ Chargebee (payment processing and subscription billing)
• Adaptive – FP&A Platform
• Kyriba – Treasury Management
What they guide the business toward:
• Intake and routing: Qualify every Finance AI idea, extensions, and reporting request through the CoE, with one front door and a clear status for requesters.
• UiPath — approved RPA platform for all Finance process automation
• Snowflake Cortex — FP&A intelligence, anomaly detection, variance analysis, Receivables and Payables Insights
• Sigma — single BI surface for Finance reporting, replacing Excel management packs
