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Change what you hire for. Treat AI as added capacity.
A field guide to who is on the AI-native finance team, what it owns, what it stops doing, and who signs when AI is wrong. Includes a sign-off register and a 90-day plan.
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What you'll learn
Rewrite the team around what’s left
Seven chapters cover who is on the team, what finance owns, and what moves off its plate. The last three give you a sign-off register, a plan for training judgment, and a 90-day start.
01
See who is on the team
The CFO, controller, FP&A business partners, finance systems owner, and analysts each take on a new job. Agents monitor, analyze, model, investigate, and coordinate. People judge, prioritize, decide, partner, and lead.
02
Know what finance owns
Five things belong to finance and nobody else: the definitions, the model, the rules agents follow, the answer, and a seat in the decision. Then see the six kinds of work that move off the team’s plate.
03
Build a sign-off register
Every recurring AI output gets an owner, source systems, a check performed, and a person who signs. If any field is blank, the output isn’t ready to leave finance. Three worked examples included.
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Start in 90 days
Map the work, put agents on the monitoring, then move finance into one decision. Plus three practices for teaching analysts to spot a wrong number and four questions for your leadership team.
INSIDE THE E-BOOK
Seven chapters, from the new team to your first 90 days
From Accountant to Builder
The CFO role changes shape around each new scarce skill. The builder designs the operating system finance decides on.
What the Team Looks Like
Five human roles work alongside a Digital Finance Team of agents. Team size stays roughly where it is. The profile changes.
What the Team Owns
Definitions, the model, the rules agents follow, the answer, and a seat in the decision belong to finance and nobody else.
What the Team Stops Doing
Compiling, reconciling, and maintaining copies of the truth move off the plate. Finance moves into the room.
Who Owns the Answer When AI Is Wrong
The CFO owns it. A sign-off register gives every AI output a named person who signs.
Building the Next Generation of CFOs
Three practices teach analysts to spot a wrong number on purpose, now that agents take the repetitions.
The First 90 Days
Map the work, put agents on the monitoring, then move finance into one decision. Plus four questions for your leadership team.
AI can be 80% right. In finance, that’s 100% wrong.
Cube · The AI-native CFO Operating Model
Who's behind it
Written by a three-time CFO
Christina Ross has been CFO three times, at companies from high-growth startups to global enterprises. This e-book comes out of a conversation she has had dozens of times, with controllers who were excellent at their jobs and still not ready for hers.
It ends where Cube starts. When 60 to 80 percent of a finance team's capacity goes to reconciliation, the strategic work never gets a calendar slot. Cube's four FP&Agents work on a single governed data layer, so the hours the close used to take go to the judgment only you can supply.
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