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Research theme · AI in the Office of the CFO

AI Governance, Risk & Control

How do we stay in control — auditable and defensible to the audit committee?

A permanent research theme — one of fifteen questions this pillar exists to answer
IndependentEvidence-backedReviewed Jul 2026Sources 60Methodology

Overview

The control environment for AI in finance: model risk, explainability, segregation of duties, audit evidence, regulatory expectation and the governance a CFO must be able to demonstrate.

Themes cut across the nine finance domains. An article lives in one domain, but may speak to this theme from several — which is why this page is an index, not a home.

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Benchmark Intelligence →

How performance in this area is measured, and what comparable finance organisations achieve.

Capability MaturityAutomation & AI Adoption

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Where the answer is a partner rather than a product — the specialisms that deliver work in this area.

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How it works →

The Executive Finance Assessment reads your organisation against the same maturity spine, decision archetypes and benchmark models used across this pillar — so what you read here and what it tells you about AI Governance, Risk & Control are expressed in one vocabulary, not two.

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What does ai governance, risk & control mean for your organisation?

Research frames the question in general. The Executive Finance Assessment answers it for your finance function specifically — with your position, your highest-impact move and the evidence behind it.

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