AI in Finance: Driving Insights, FP&A & Financial Governance

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AI is transforming the modern finance organization — from FP&A forecasting and scenario modeling to accounting operations, close, reporting, and controls. It is designed for finance leaders navigating the tension between speed and accuracy, automation and governance, productivity and defensibility.

Across FP&A and Controllership, we explore how AI integrates with Excel and planning tools to drive impact, accelerate forecasting, and enable real-time scenario analysis and valuation. We examine its role in enhancing reporting, automating commentary, and improving core accounting processes like AP/AR, close, and reporting. At the same time, we address how AI can streamline reconciliations and analysis while remaining auditable and defensible, and what governance frameworks are needed to ensure transparency and accountability.

FP&A seeks speed, insight, and strategic impact.
Accounting safeguards accuracy, compliance, and trust.

This podcast brings both perspectives together — demonstrating how AI can simultaneously drive productivity gains and strengthen financial control. The future-ready finance function is not just automated. It is intelligent, governed, and strategically aligned.


This episode is sponsored by Aidentified. The nation’s top RIAs and wirehouses use Aidentified to turn relationship data and money-in-motion events into organic growth without adding headcount. It’s AI-powered intelligence built for modern finance leaders. Learn more at Aidentified.com.

Devon Coombs

Devon Coombs

Fractional CFO / CAO Advisor | ex-Google & Deloitte | Strategic Finance Partner – AI, Transactions, & Transformation | Educator @ SJSU

I help high-growth companies, and the CFOs and CAOs who lead them, navigate scale, complexity, and transactions with strategic finance support rooted in technical depth and operator insight.

I specialize in technical accounting leadership, revenue recognition (ASC 606), IPO readiness, and strategic finance advisory. My work helps companies navigate complex revenue structures, build investor-ready financial operations, and sustain operational resilience through scale and transition.

My expertise is built on leading finance and accounting at scale. As Controller for Google Cloud Marketplace and Chief of Staff for the Google Cloud Controllership, I directed multi-billion-dollar revenue initiatives, managed technical accounting policy for AI and cloud partnerships, and advised executive leadership through major restructurings and international growth. Earlier in my career, I guided technology companies through IPO readiness, ASC 606 adoption, and revenue accounting challenges while at Deloitte and Effectus Group (now Riveon).

In addition to strategic finance advisory, I am committed to leadership development and long-term stewardship. I have designed and delivered training programs for over 10,000 finance and operational stakeholders, served as an adjunct professor of finance and accounting, and host the leadership podcast Ambition Aligned, where I explore the intersection of high performance, stewardship, and sustainable leadership.

Angela Liu

Angela Liu

Angela Liu is the founder of Gaapsavvy, a community of 600+ technical accountants at enterprise tech companies who live at the intersection of technical accounting and operational finance—the people building close processes, implementing systems, and making complex accounting actually work. A former Big 4 instructor turned product strategist, Angela specializes in helping finance teams bridge the gap between technical theory and operational execution. She hosts the Gaapsavvy Podcast and regularly facilitates knowledge-sharing sessions on quote-to-cash complexity, AI adoption, and system implementation.

Lynn Gargano

Lynn Gargano

Editor of the Financial Executives Journal and a strategic advisor to The Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG), where she contributes to thought leadership, business strategy, and the continued expansion of the organization’s digital and content platforms.

Lynn is an accomplished, business-savvy, senior financial executive and thought leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, focused on driving value creation. She has a strong financial acumen and deep understanding of financial levers with extensive experience in Financial Services, Asset and Wealth Management subsectors. Lynn is a collaborative leader, who bridges finance and strategic growth, turning insight into a growth engine, that drives P&L performance, unlocks revenue opportunities, guides strategic decision-making, and cultivates strategic partnerships.

Her background includes Big 4 public accounting, shaping her perspective on financial reporting, planning, and finance transformation.

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