EP 14: The 12 AI Workflows Aussie Finance Teams Are Actually Using (a recruiter asked 50 CFOs)

<p><strong>&quot;I don&#39;t think I&#39;ll ever hire a financial accountant again.&quot;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>That&#39;s a real CFO, talking to a real recruiter, about a real decision he&#39;s already made.</p><p>Tom Hunter runs Story Recruitment and hosts The CFO Track. He spent months interviewing Australian finance leaders about how they&#39;re actually using AI — not the LinkedIn version — and packaged it into a free practical workflow guide. We sat down to go through it.</p><p><br></p><p>📄 <strong>Link to the AI in Finance — Practical Workflow Guide:</strong></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-hunter-story_ai-in-finance-workflow-guide-story-recruitment-ugcPost-7473132331864702977--msC/"> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-hunter-story_ai-in-finance-workflow-guide-story-recruitment-ugcPost-7473132331864702977--msC/</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>What we got into:</strong></p><p> — Why only ~15% of businesses have genuinely embedded AI into BAU (up from 10% a year ago), and why everyone else is quietly panicking for no reason<br> — The AP team that went from 3–4 officers plus a manager down to 1–2 staff<br> — The double standard: a human at 98% is &quot;fantastic,&quot; an AI at 98% is &quot;not trustworthy&quot;<br> — Why the AI wizard doesn&#39;t get the job, and the communicator does<br> — What &quot;good with AI&quot; actually means when a CFO asks for it<br> — The one risk Tom flags for every finance professional<br> — How he built TomBot with zero technical background</p><p>If you work in finance and you&#39;ve been told you&#39;re behind on AI: you&#39;re probably not. But you probably should start.</p><p><br></p><p>👤 <strong>Tom Hunter</strong>, founder of Story Recruitment — finance recruitment for Australian startups, from first finance hire to CFO recruitment.</p>