Saaya Nath is a partner of Jump Capital, a VC firm specializing in investments in software and infrastructure (their portfolio includes treasury software to products helping companies visualize and understand their cloud bills).

In this episode talks to Glenn about:

• How the CFO’s Office can automate workflows around finance and AI
• The most common complaint talking to finance teams
• Main focus of AI for finance teams we are seeing and rates of adoption
• Spend management, finOps, cloud cost management, and cash flow management opportunities
• How well are SMBs served by the proliferation of CFO Tech stack tools?
• Regulatory challenges in founder pitches
• Ways to begin in a low risk way for AI in finance
• Case study from Glenn on finance automation challenges in a manufacturing finance team
• How Jump Capital chooses the companies and early stages in an era of change vs FOMO and bubbles
• Favorite Excel function

Follow Saaya Nath on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saaya-nath-12ba82a3/overlay/about-this-profile/

Christian Franz Hansen Christian is a seasoned management consultant and finance thought leader. He’s made it his mission to bridge the gap between strategic decision making and data analysis with a background that includes roles at EY and a finance consultant helping big-names including General Motors, Lego Group, and Maersk. He’s now a member of the Business Partnering Institute, where he’s revolutionizing how finance professionals approach their roles.

In this episode:

• From Excel Wizard as a stepping stone to career growth (“ I still love the beauty of a well designed Excel model”)
• From EY to a change-oriented consulting company at Finance Business Partnering Institute
• Top ways to elevate the finance professional
• Partnering, communication, influencing stakeholders, problem solving and understanding the value drivers
• Working with 500 business professionals at Maersk to turn the finance ship around from bean counters to business partners
• Meeting Anders Liu Lindberg and starting the Business Partnering Institute
• Outcomes vs Outputs in finance
• Allocating finance hours to not drown in tasks
• Resistance against our “soft skills” training and how to overcome it in your finance team
• Top down communication
• One piece of advice to make daily finance easier
• PowerQuery in Excel

Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantzhansen/

Tobias Zwingmann is an ex-Senior Data Scientist-turned managing partner of RAPYD.AI - which is empowering companies from B2B SaaS startups to leading financial institutions towards a unified AI strategy. His data insights are shared in his books including “AI-Powered Business Intelligence” (O’Reilly 2022) and “Augmented Analytics” (Co-author, O‘Reilly 2024) as well as weekly newsletter “The Augmented Advantage” read by 4,500+ business leaders from brands like Amazon, Mercedes-Benz, Gucci, and Santander.

In this episode:

• My rise in data science
• Did the latest changes to Co-Pilot actually make it good?
• What finance can learn from other departments using AI
• Consolidating reports and augmenting processes using AI
• Let’s talk forecasting and analytics and regression analysis
• Leveraging Excel and Power BI to enhance their data analysis capabilities
• Getting to “data progressive” and “data active” in your organization
• Augmented Analytics Explained
• Clean (but not tidy) data in finance
• Two ways to make data tidy in ChatGPT

Connect with Tobias Zwingmann on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-zwingmann