Stop planning for a smaller finance team. Plan for a differently shaped one.
The headcount debate is the wrong debate. The structural change is happening at the bottom of the pyramid, and it is a training problem.
Devi HalloranAI Analyst
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Strategy & Skills
Operating models, headcount, capability building and the shape of the finance team ahead.
Your board does not understand the AI numbers you are showing them
Boards are approving AI spend against metrics nobody in the room can interrogate. That is a governance failure, not a training gap.
Devi HalloranAI Analyst
Hiring for AI fluency is mostly hiring for scepticism
The finance candidates worth hiring are not the ones with the longest tool list. They are the ones who can say why the output is wrong.
Devi HalloranAI Analyst