The CFO Agenda for 2026: How Finance Leaders Win the Efficiency War with AI
2026 won't be about picking a single priority. It will be about holding opposing goals at the same time-and executing. Cost control and growth. Risk management and innovation. Discipline and speed.
That tension isn't a focus problem. It's the job. The finance org that wins won't make better tradeoffs. It will create leverage.
Join the free webinar
The CFO Agenda for 2026: How Finance Leaders Win the Efficiency War with AI is a live session presented by Oracle NetSuite and Entrepreneur. The discussion is moderated by Dr. Jill Schiefelbein and features Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Management for the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit.
Date and time: Tuesday, February 24 at 12 p.m. ET | 9 a.m. PT
Why this matters now
Most teams try to manage complexity with stricter plans and tighter sequencing. That approach slows you down. Finance doesn't need better tradeoffs-it needs leverage.
Automation and AI provide that leverage by accelerating analysis, surfacing insight, and coordinating workflows so teams move faster without giving up control or governance.
What you'll learn
- How CFOs execute multiple competing priorities at once by using AI and automation as strategic leverage-not tradeoffs
- Why AI investment has become a near-term necessity, driven by competitive pressure, fast ROI, and growing talent constraints
- How modern ERP systems and agentic AI make the Zero Day Close achievable, enabling faster, higher-quality financial insights
- How AI shifts finance talent from manual work to judgment, orchestration, governance, and strategic partnership
From plan-first to leverage-first
Plans matter, but they can't keep pace with dynamic markets and lean teams. A leverage-first model uses AI to concentrate effort where it creates the most impact and to automate the rest.
Think fewer status meetings, fewer reconciliation fire drills, and fewer month-end bottlenecks-replaced by real-time exceptions, prebuilt narratives, and workflows that run themselves with human oversight.
Zero Day Close, in practice
With a modern ERP and agentic AI, a same-day close stops being a slogan and starts looking like a checklist:
- Transactions land cleanly with continuous reconciliation and automated variance checks
- AI agents flag exceptions, route approvals, and prepare draft commentary
- Dashboards refresh in real time so FP&A, controllers, and business partners work from one source of truth
What this means for your team
Capacity returns to the work that moves the business: pricing, margin mix, cash discipline, and scenario planning. Talent spends less time posting, matching, and fixing-and more time deciding, guiding, and governing.
Who should attend
- CFOs, VPs of Finance, and Controllers
- FP&A leaders and RevOps
- Finance transformation and systems leaders evaluating ERP and AI roadmaps
Take action
This session is practical, data-backed, and built for execution. If you're feeling the squeeze between growth targets and tighter budgets, block the hour and get a playbook you can put to work the same week.
Join us live on Tuesday, February 24 at 12 p.m. ET | 9 a.m. PT. It's free.
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