From Spreadsheets to Systems: What AI Adoption Actually Looks Like in Public Sector Finance

Most public sector finance and audit teams have been told to adopt AI. Few have been told what that looks like on a Monday morning. This session skips the demo and the roadmap. It covers where audit and finance teams actually lose time, why the usual fixes fail, and what separates an AI pilot that scales from one that quietly stops after three months. It looks at how to keep authority, defensibility and transparency intact while you automate, with a real example from a UK central government department and offers five practical tests for choosing a first use case that delivers in months.