Comment by jimnotgym

With respect, you probably only see that bit of Finance, but doesn't mean that is all Brenda does.

At least half of the work in my senior Finance team involves meeting people in operations to find out what they are planning to do and to analyse the effects, and present them to decision makers to help them understand the consequences of decisions. For an AI to help, someone would have to trigger those conversations in the first place and ask the right questions.

The rest of the work involves tidying up all the exceptions that the automation failed on.

Meanwhile copilot in Excel can't even edit the sheet you are working on. If you say to it, 'give me a template for an expense claim' it will give you a sheet to download... probably with #REF written in where the answers should be.