A CFO breakfast at AAB’s Leadenhall office, co-hosted with Selona AI. Neoflo CEO Nipun Mehra and Group CFO Prithvi Rajaram led the discussion on where AI holds up in the finance function and where it falls short.

Takeaways

• CFOs put AI ROI near the bottom of their priorities. In Gartner’s 2026 poll, 34% named driving enterprise AI ROI, the lowest-ranked of the priorities tested.

• “Automation” usually covers the easiest 80% of the work, while the edge cases need judgment and take up most of a finance team’s time.

• A lot of finance rules live in people’s heads and leave when they do.