How EY’s finance transformation team is approaching AI strategy
As finance leaders face pressure to modernize and deliver ROI on their spending on technology and consulting, EY’s finance transformation team is focused on putting emerging technologies to work not just for clients, but inside the firm itself. The team, led by Deirdre Ryan, global finance transformation leader, is playing a dual role: Helping CFOs navigate AI adoption while also piloting those same tools internally across EY’s finance and consulting functions.
In a recent interview inspired by her session at the Gartner Finance Executive Conference last month, Ryan explains how EY is using agentic AI to reshape FP&A workflows and why being “client zero” is critical to building credibility in the market. She also discusses how CFOs can avoid repeating past mistakes from automation efforts, what it takes to lead a finance organization through transformation and how to do so with clarity, purpose and psychological safety.
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