6 Steps to Build an AI-Ready Finance Team

With AI dominating the business agenda, CFOs and finance leaders are being called on to do more than crunch numbers—they’re expected to steer enterprise-wide innovation. But as breakthrough technologies reshape the finance landscape, one truth becomes clear: success hinges on your team’s ability to keep up. Facing a persistent talent shortage and an evolving skills gap, there’s never been a better moment to reassess your finance talent strategy. From finding valuable AI use cases to upskilling your current team, finance leaders must take action now to ensure their departments are ready for what’s next. Join this session for practical steps to build an AI-ready finance organization—starting with the talent behind the tech. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Understand the impact of AI on the finance industry and its potential to transform daily tasks and operations. Explore talent acquisition strategies focused on the skills needed in an AI-driven environment. Discover how AI-powered tools can automate routine finance tasks, improve efficiency, and enhance overall productivity. Recognize the role of AI in enabling finance teams to focus on strategic work—including AI-generated narratives, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. This ERP Today live session will cover how DuPont were able to substantially reduce IT costs by decommissioning legacy infrastructure, eliminate compliance and cybersecurity risks with audit-proof access to historical data, streamline global system architecture, reduce complexity, and eliminate technical debt. Despite the goals, the entire project was completed in just 12 months, an industry-record timeline for a project of this scale. In addition, the project delivered significant gains in energy efficiency in support of ESG targets. By attending this session, you will be able to: Identify the financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks associated with continuing to run outdated SAP ECC systems. Explain how legacy system retirement can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80% while maintaining audit-proof data access. Describe the key steps and best practices in executing a large-scale SAP system decommissioning project without disrupting business operations. Assess how a platform-based approach like JiVS IMP can simplify IT landscapes and support long-term data governance and ESG goals.