Achieving Financial Excellence – Taking Advantage of AI to enhance decision confidence

Jodie Meadows, Former Chief Financial Officer at NRI Australia & New Zealand & Oracle and Shilpa Bhale, Director, Strategy and Product Management at Oracle discuss the evolving role of finance in driving innovation and the importance of adopting AI and technology in finance operations. Shilpa outlines her role at Oracle, emphasising her focus on finance transformation to enhance agility, compliance, and efficiency in financial processes. By leveraging Oracle’s ERP Cloud Fusion, Shilpa collaborates with finance leaders to integrate AI and machine learning, automating mundane tasks and improving data quality for accurate insights and predictive analytics. This advancement in automation supports touchless operations, freeing finance teams from routine tasks and enhancing decision-making. This supports faster month-end processes and facilitates strategic business outcomes.

Jodie shares her experience leading a digital transformation at NRI, where finance plays a central role in ERP-led innovations. She discusses the growing involvement of CFOs in technology decisions…