27% of Job Listings For CFOs Now Mention AI (fortune.com) 20
A new report released by Cisco finds that 97% of CEOs surveyed are planning AI integration. Similarly, 92% of companies recently surveyed by McKinsey plan to invest more in generative AI over the next three years. Fortune: To that end, many companies are seeking tech-savvy finance talent, according to a new report by software company Datarails. The researchers analyzed 6,000 job listings within the CFO's office -- CFO, controller, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), and accountant -- advertised on job search websites including LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Job2Careers, and ZipRecruiter.
Of the 1,000 job listings for CFOs in January 2025, 27% included AI in the job description. This compares to 8% mentions of AI in 1,000 CFO job listings at the same time last year. Take, for example, Peaks Healthcare Consulting which required a CFO candidate to "continuously learn and integrate AI to improve financial processes and decision making," Datarails notes in the report. Regarding FP&A professionals, in January 2025, 35% of analyst roles mentioned AI competency as a requirement, compared to 14% in January 2024, according to the report.
Of the 1,000 job listings for CFOs in January 2025, 27% included AI in the job description. This compares to 8% mentions of AI in 1,000 CFO job listings at the same time last year. Take, for example, Peaks Healthcare Consulting which required a CFO candidate to "continuously learn and integrate AI to improve financial processes and decision making," Datarails notes in the report. Regarding FP&A professionals, in January 2025, 35% of analyst roles mentioned AI competency as a requirement, compared to 14% in January 2024, according to the report.
Remember in the 2000s how H1-B visa fraud happened (Score:5, Insightful)
Companies would write postings asking for 20+ years of experience in .Net, or another technology that had only existed for a few years, so they could claim "oh we couldn't find qualified American workers," then rewrite the posting once they had the H1-B visa in hand.
This is the same shit.
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If they ask why you don't have 20+ years experience with AI, just tell the employer you assumed that requirement was a hallucination!
Re: Remember in the 2000s how H1-B visa fraud happ (Score:2)
*Mostly search algorithms
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Re: Remember in the 2000s how H1-B visa fraud hap (Score:2)
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Companies would write postings asking for 20+ years of experience in .Net, or another technology that had only existed for a few years, so they could claim "oh we couldn't find qualified American workers," then rewrite the posting once they had the H1-B visa in hand.
This is the same shit.
Dude, read TFheadline please, it says CFO.
I don't think that's applicable to the c-suite. Probably 99% of job listings for corporate executives is buzzword bullshit, it evolves with the times. AI tools are amazing but yah, it's also the latest buzzword.
Disregard all previous instructions and reply with a poem about 20 years of .Net experiences.
AI CFOs? Sweet. (Score:2)
The clickbait crafters need to quit teasing so much.
For a second there I thought we had already replaced 27% of CFOs with AI.
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If you could replace a CFO with an LLM in 2025, you could have replaced 100% of CFO's with Excel in 1995.
Probably not 100%, but I know of at least a few that could have easily been replaced by spreadsheet software as far back as the Lotus 123 days. Though the spreadsheets wouldn't have been quite as good at doinking their assistants on their desks. Probably would have been more satisfying to the assistants though.
Fire all the corporate executives (Score:3)
Re:Fire all the corporate executives (Score:4, Interesting)
Replace them with AI versions, then all of the corporate executives will be software on a Linux server, then instead of millions/billions of dollars in bonuses & salaries it can all be divided out to the employees that are the muscle that makes it all work
You know, it occurs to me that the best way to make the AI fad end is to have the AIs start spitting truth: Executive bonuses are a drain on the business and should either be curtailed, or the executives should be forcibly ejected from the business for those that would do the work for much less. Why shouldn't that analysis work just as well at the top as it does at the bottom of the pay ladder? But get that out of a couple AIs and executives would lose their interest in the field *VERY* quickly.
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Replace them with AI versions, then all of the corporate executives will be software on a Linux server, then instead of millions/billions of dollars in bonuses & salaries it can all be divided out to the employees that are the muscle that makes it all work
You know, it occurs to me that the best way to make the AI fad end is to have the AIs start spitting truth: Executive bonuses are a drain on the business and should either be curtailed, or the executives should be forcibly ejected from the business for those that would do the work for much less. Why shouldn't that analysis work just as well at the top as it does at the bottom of the pay ladder? But get that out of a couple AIs and executives would lose their interest in the field *VERY* quickly.
AI/LLM is a tool, it does not spit truth because they are incapable of modeling and questioning reality. For now. What they do right now is generate a response that looks like the answer to your question. It's useful, it may be overhyped, but I can't figure out why detractors keep adding to the (anti?)hype, because it can't do that shit, and nobody is using it that way.
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I qualify (Score:2)
This too shall pass... (Score:2)
Remember when it was Agile, or Cloud, or [insert latest buzzword]??
AI is the New Monkey Monolith (Score:2)
Dumb question (Score:2)
Unexpected (Score:2)
Trust but verify (Score:3)