AI is changing what businesses expect from their finance teams, and the skills finance professionals will need to keep up. As routine work becomes easier to automate, finance teams are being pushed towards analysing data, generating insights and helping businesses make decisions. But poor data, skills gaps and the risk of unreliable AI-generated answers remain major hurdles. On Industry Insight, Lynlee Foo speaks with Dean Hezekiah, Policy and Insights Manager – Asia Pacific at ACCA, about how the finance function is changing and what the finance professional of the future could look like.