Every finance leader is now being asked what the business is doing about AI. The pressure is real, but the answer is not a rush of tools — it is deliberate, governed adoption led from the top of the finance function. This hub brings together FD Capital’s guides for CFOs, Finance Directors and boards on how to adopt AI in finance, govern it properly, and hire the leaders who can do both.
These guides are written for the finance leader, not the practitioner. They are about the decisions that sit with the person accountable for the finance function — how AI reshapes the operating model, what governance it demands, and what it changes about the people you hire. Every guide funnels to one practical question for the businesses we work with: do you have a finance leader who can own this?
Strategy and the finance function
How AI reshapes the CFO’s remit and the function they lead — and the leadership decisions that follow.
The hire-versus-upskill decision and how to build AI capability across the team.
How AI shifts the finance leader’s remit, span of control and operating model.
The adoption and governance competencies that now belong in a senior finance brief.
How a fractional CFO can de-risk and accelerate AI adoption without a full-time hire.
A finance leader’s phased plan for adoption, sequencing and change management.
Governance and risk
The governance a finance leader owns when the function adopts AI — and, in regulated firms, the accountability that comes with it.
What boards and audit committees need from the CFO on AI risk and controls.
How a CFO authors and owns the policy that governs AI use in the function.
How AI use intersects senior-manager accountability in FCA-regulated firms.
The vendor, data-boundary and sign-off decisions a finance leader owns.
Practical applications
AI in the finance function’s highest-stakes work — at the level of the leader who reviews, interprets and signs off.
Using AI for board packs and investor materials while owning the numbers.
Interpreting, challenging and governing AI-assisted forecasts.
AI’s role in transaction support and deal analysis at CFO altitude.
Do you have a finance leader who can own AI?
FD Capital places CFOs and Finance Directors who can adopt and govern AI across the finance function — fractional, interim or permanent. See our AI-ready CFO recruitment service, or tell us about your hire.
“Every business I speak to is being told it must ‘do something’ about AI. My job, and the job of the finance leaders we place, is to turn that pressure into a governed, deliberate programme — one that improves the finance function without exposing the business to risk it hasn’t thought through.”
— Adrian Lawrence FCA, Founder, FD Capital. Fellow of the ICAEW and holder of a practising certificate. Verify ICAEW membership →
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