(As featured in CFO Tech Outlook) Profit variability has become one of the most persistent challenges facing CFOs. As enterprises move faster and financial complexity increases, small breakdowns in visibility can quietly compound into material performance risk. In a recent featured article for CFO Tech Outlook, we examined how leading finance teams are responding to … Read more
Operational resilience is not lost in a single failure. It erodes quietly through small breakdowns in everyday processes that compound over time. For CFOs, one of the most common sources of that erosion sits inside Procure-to-Pay (P2P). Across vendor onboarding, invoicing, approvals, payments, and reconciliations, minor inconsistencies can scale into margin leakage, compliance exposure, and loss of confidence … Read more
Cost-cutting is easy. Value creation is not. In volatile markets, CFOs are under pressure to reduce spend while still funding growth, protecting margins, and maintaining control. Across procurement, payroll, vendors, and shared services, spending decisions compound quickly—and small blind spots scale into material risk. This is why business spend management is evolving. What was once treated as a cost-control function is … Read more
Volatility has changed what margin analysis needs to do. When tariffs can swing input costs overnight, when liquidity is strained by buy-ahead inventory decisions, and when cost-cutting must occur without disrupting the business, finance teams cannot afford to discover margin issues after the close. They need a way to detect margin leakage early enough to act, … Read more
AI adoption in finance is no longer a matter of if; it’s a matter of when and how fast. According to our latest MindBridge CFO AI Adoption Survey, a full 80% of finance teams have already moved beyond research and are actively using AI to improve operations, identify risk, and drive better decision-making. This shift … Read more
The Gap Between Automation and Intelligence Modern CFOs are being asked to do more than ever—manage compliance, drive strategy, and oversee digital transformation. Yet most finance tech still lags behind, surfacing anomalies too late or burying insights in dashboards that don’t drive action. That’s why AI for CFOs is quickly becoming the modern standard for … Read more
The CFO role is no longer just about controlling costs and closing the books. Today’s finance leaders are enterprise architects—tasked with transforming fragmented systems into intelligent operations. Decision intelligence is the key to that transformation. But here’s the catch: most decision intelligence content reads like a buzzword bingo card. What CFOs actually need is a practical, outcome-driven … Read more
MindBridge at the 2025 Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference📍 Booth 515 | May 20–21 | National Harbor, MD CFOs are being asked to do more than ever: drive profitable growth, cut costs, manage risk, and steer enterprise strategy—all while navigating a fragmented tech stack and mounting complexity. The problem? Most finance tools still operate … Read more
In today’s enterprise, financial transformation is no longer a long-term vision—it’s an urgent necessity. But transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. It spans multiple processes, exposes new risks, and often reveals inefficiencies that traditional tools simply can’t keep up with. This is where MindBridge comes in. Why Transformation Demands More Than Legacy Tools From order to … Read more
Transparency and accountability are essential for businesses worldwide. While traditional audits provide these safeguards, their periodic nature often leaves gaps in risk coverage. Continuous auditing, powered by AI, offers a proactive solution, enabling real-time insights and more effective risk management. This article explores the fundamentals of continuous auditing, its use cases, benefits, challenges, and implementation … Read more
A message from MindBridge CFO, Matthias Steinberg The Gartner CFO conference is an important industry event for my company MindBridge. It gives me the opportunity to join and support the MindBridge team and I get to participate in many of the keynotes, presentations, and round tables. Naturally, I am keen to understand where AI adoption … Read more
As the complexity of data analysis increases, preemptive vs. reactionary capabilities become paramount. Data anomaly detection can help.
