How AI Is Rewriting The Role Of Finance Teams
Techstrong.ai, December 10,2025
In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, Mike Lynch, principal for artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and transformation for Auditoria.AI, explains how the role of finance teams is evolving as more rote tasks are automated.
Mike Lynch breaks down how artificial intelligence is reshaping work inside the office of the CFO - starting with the back office and radiating outward.
Rather than asking if AI will be adopted in finance, Lynch says the real questions now are how fast and where first. For most organizations, the journey begins in controllership functions such as accounts payable and accounts receivable, where highly repetitive, rules-based processes make strong candidates for automation. Lynch notes that some organizations are seeing up to an 85% reduction in manual work such as sorting shared inboxes, responding to supplier and customer inquiries, and hunting down invoices.