The confidence to change | A CFO on joining up the data, and bringing the team with her
The CFO’s office is changing fast. Team structures, the skills finance needs, which AI use cases are worth the effort: none of it is settled, and most CFOs are working it out as they go.
Underneath it all is the same problem. Finance data sits in separate systems that don’t talk to each other, and Excel fills the gaps. AI can’t help with data it can’t reach, and a team won’t trust numbers it has to stitch together by hand.
Kayleigh Wright (CFO of Tes) is leading her team through this. In 30 minutes with Pauline Glikman (Payflows's CEO & Co-founder), she’ll share how her own road to the CFO seat shapes the way she leads change, how she tells where AI will pay back from where it would only shift work from one team to another, and what it takes to move a team off Excel and onto one set of numbers everyone trusts.
That’s the idea behind this series: CFOs hearing from CFOs in the middle of the same change, not vendors telling them what to do. The value is in the detail of someone else’s experience.
🎯 Who this is for
CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers and Heads of Finance who are exploring AI or already experimenting with it, and want a practical way forward.
Whether you’re deciding where to start, proving ROI on what you’ve already launched, or getting your team on board, this conversation will help you plan your next steps.
💡What we’ll discuss
The road to the CFO seat: How Kayleigh built her career in finance, what she learnt along the way, and how AI could reshape the skills and career paths of the next generation of finance leaders.
Where AI actually delivers ROI: How to spot the workflows worth automating, avoid AI projects that just move work between teams, and measure real improvements. And why getting more from your existing systems can be a better starting point than a full migration.
Bringing your finance team along: Why finance teams fall back on Excel when the numbers matter, how to build trust in a single source of truth, and how early AI wins drive adoption and build the skills your team will need.
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💬 Got a story of your own? This is the first in a series of conversations with CFOs leading change in their teams. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.
🏢 About the host
Payflows builds agentic modules that sit on top of your existing ERP. We automate complex workflows across procurement, accounts payable, contracts, spend and treasury. Finance teams using Payflows automate up to 80% of manual operations, gain better control and visibility, and free their people for higher-value work. Customers include Alan, Swile, Ledger, Mistral AI and more.