Finance playbook · AI Employee: Fin

Weekly Finance Digest

Leadership gets weekly rhythm without pulling reports

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The problem

The finance leader's Monday morning consists of pulling numbers from six systems, reconciling them, and building a status update by 11am for the exec team. Cash position, AR aging, AP queue, top expenses, deviations from forecast, upcoming renewals — each requires a separate query, a mental spreadsheet, and a fresh Powerpoint each week. By the time the update is done, it's stale, and the same exercise starts tomorrow.

At a glance
Trigger
Cron (weekly)
Approvals
None
What it does
Read-only
Systems
NetSuite · Ramp · Brex · Bill · Slack
How it feels in production

An hour-by-hour walkthrough.

Every Monday at 07:00, Fin assembles the weekly finance digest and delivers it to the CFO + finance team: **Cash + Runway** - Current cash: $18.4M (vs. $18.9M last week; -$0.5M) - Net burn (rolling 30d): $2.1M/mo - Runway: 8.8 months at current burn **AR + Collections** - Total AR: $4.2M ($3.1M current, $0.7M 30-60, $0.3M 60-90, $0.1M 90+) - New invoicing last week: $1.8M - Collections last week: $2.3M - Top overdue: Acme Corp $180K (90+ day, escalated to CFO) **AP + Payables** - Total AP: $2.8M ($2.1M scheduled current, $0.7M in approval) - Next payment run: 2026-09-11, $1.4M - Payment holds: 3 vendors (see risk report) **Spend Highlights** - New POs over $10K: 12 (list attached) - SaaS renewals within 60 days: 8 ($340K total, review recommendations) - Anomalies flagged this week: 3 (see spend-monitoring report) **Forecast Deviation** - Current month vs. forecast: -3.2% (revenue slightly under, expenses on-plan) - Quarter-to-date: -1.8% **Actions Requested** - CFO: approve override on Beta Corp AP hold (they're contesting; procurement's recommendation attached) - CFO: sign off on 3 SaaS renewals over $25K (details in linked reviews) CFO reads for 5-10 minutes. Actions from digest handled directly. Weekly finance meeting focuses on strategic conversation, not data-gathering.
How it works

Step by step.

  1. 01

    Aggregate data from every finance system

    Cash from bank feeds. AR + AP from accounting. Runway from finance model. Spend from procurement. Forecast from planning tool.

    Bank feeds · NetSuite · Anaplan · Adaptive Planning · Coupa
  2. 02

    Compute deltas + highlight signals

    Week-over-week deltas. Threshold-based highlighting (spend anomalies, aging aggression, forecast deviation over 5%). Trend arrows.

    Analytics · Threshold engine
  3. 03

    Assemble digest with actionable sections

    Structured Markdown / rich formatting for readability. Action-requested section calls out decisions needed this week.

    Digest template · Delivery formatter
  4. 04

    Deliver to CFO + finance team

    Monday 07:00 delivery. Email + Slack DM + dashboard link. Follow-up questions handled in-thread via Fin.

    Email · Slack · Web dashboard
  5. 05

    Enable actionable follow-through

    Approvals + reviews linked directly. CFO can act on the digest without opening 6 systems. Actions logged; feeds next week's digest.

    Approval flow · Cross-linking · Audit log
Systems and wiring

What you connect to make this run.

NetSuite · SAP · QuickBooks · Sage

read

Master financial data. AR aging, AP position, GL, month-end trend.

Bank feeds · Treasury tools

read

Real-time cash position. Multi-bank aggregation for accurate treasury view.

Anaplan · Adaptive Planning · Cube

read

Forecast + planning data for deviation reporting.

Slack · Email · Web dashboard

read+write

Multi-channel delivery. Follow-up Q&A in-thread with grounded answers.

What changes

Before and after, honestly.

CFO time on weekly digest prep
Before
3-6 hours
After
5-10 minutes (reading)
Digest delivery time consistency
Before
Variable (Mon PM to Wed)
After
Monday 07:00 sharp
Follow-up questions requiring new data pull
Before
60-80%
After
10-20% (context bundled)
Finance actions delayed from digest visibility
Before
3-7 day lag
After
Same-day action
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AR section of digest surfaces top overdue accounts for CFO awareness.

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Spend Monitoring Detection

Anomaly detection feeds the spend highlights section.

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License Cost & Renewal Tracking

Upcoming SaaS renewals surface in the digest with recommendations.

Frequently asked

Answers about this playbook.

Can the digest cadence be customized per audience?

Yes — CFO weekly, executive team monthly summary, board quarterly, controller daily. Same data model, different audience-specific views.

How does it handle multi-entity or multi-currency companies?

Consolidated + per-entity views. Currency conversion at week-end rates for consolidated; native currency for per-entity. Both surfaced.

What if the underlying systems have data errors?

Anomalies + suspicious deltas flagged with confidence level. CFO sees "AR jumped $2M week-over-week — likely reconciliation issue, investigating." Never hides data quality issues.

Can we drill down from digest to underlying detail?

Yes — every summary line deep-links to the underlying report or system. Digest is entry point; detail one click away.

How does it handle sensitive information (comp, layoff cost)?

Audience-appropriate scope. CFO sees everything; wider finance team sees ops-appropriate; board sees strategic-summary. Access-controlled delivery.

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