Baskar Ganapathy

As finance teams transform into AI-native organizations, we’re sharing an inside look at the operating principles required to run one. Our Finance Director, Neerav Patwa, sat down with @AlonaMysko (Founder of @fuelfinance_ and author of The Finance Engineer on Substack) to break down how our finance team operates from the inside. Today, the office of the CFO at Chargebee runs on 50+ agents and automations across billing, accounting close, FP&A, treasury, and procurement. That transformation comes down to deliberate operating choices: ⟡ Distributing technical ownership: Rather than waiting on IT or engineering roadmaps, three to four finance teammates stepped up as internal "finance engineers," creating a peer-led system to help the rest of the team build their own workflows. ⟡ Strict human-in-the-loop governance: Agents handle recurring execution on schedule, but every process routes exceptions to human review and judgment. ⟡ Total visibility over shadow IT: Every script and automation is tracked in a central inventory, supported by per-person AI budgets and regular reviews with finance leadership to monitor what runs. The result is tangible operational capacity: cash application runs in two minutes instead of 45, and our quarterly capitalized software accounting—previously 16 spreadsheets consolidated by hand over nearly a week—now runs in one day. We built Traceable, the AI summit for finance teams looking to learn how to use these exact blueprints, bringing finance, RevOps, and engineering leaders together to unpack how operating models actually function behind closed doors. Thank you to Alyona Mysko for capturing the full architecture in the latest issue of The Finance Engineer. Read the deep dive on The Finance Engineer here: bit.ly/4jUduNs and join us at Traceable for industry insights from top finance leaders here: chargebee.com/traceable/ #Chargebee #Traceable #FinanceAndDevOps