Round Table Event – S&W
Making AI Work: What Finance Leaders Told Us
Clarity isn’t just about what happened, it’s also about what happens next.
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for finance leaders. Organisations are investing in AI assistants, copilots, and automation platforms to improve productivity, accelerate decision-making, and automate routine work.
One question continued to dominate boardroom discussion:
How do you trust AI with business-critical financial decisions?
To explore this question, FUTUROOT, Percipere, and S&W recently hosted an executive breakfast roundtable in London, bringing together CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of FP&A, and Financial Controllers from mid-market organisations.
Rather than discussing AI technology itself, the conversation focused on a more practical question:
What does it take to deploy AI that finance leaders can trust?
Four Hard Facts About AI in the Finance Function
- Trust Remains the Biggest Barrier While AI can significantly improve productivity, finance teams still require confidence in the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated recommendations before reducing human oversight. Enterprise AI will only scale when business leaders trust its outputs.
- AI needs Context. Period – AI can only make informed decisions when it understands how the business operates. Operational context enables AI to move beyond generic responses and deliver recommendations that reflect how work is performed.
- Only Insights are not enough anymore – Traditional analytics tell organisations what has happened. The next generation of Enterprise AI is expected to explain why it happened, identify what should be prioritised, and recommend the next best course of action.
- Governance Will Define Enterprise AI Adoption – As AI becomes increasingly embedded into enterprise processes, governance, explainability, and auditability are becoming essential foundations for responsible AI adoption.
AI That Understands Your Business
AI works best when it understands how processes work. Process Intelligence provides the foundation by establishing the operational context that enables AI to generate recommendations that are more accurate, explainable, and actionable.
Combined with Percipere’s ERP implementation expertise, FUTUROOT helps finance functions build the operational data layer necessary for AI that is accurate, prescriptive, and entirely auditable—even amidst complex, multi-entity ERP consolidations.
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