Automated, Insightful, and Connected: The Future of Finance with Hari Sankar, SVP of Applications Development at Oracle
February 24, 2026
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Hari Sankar, Senior Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle, joins Megan Weis to explore how AI, automation, and cloud technology are transforming finance from a reactive, manual function into an automated, insightful, and connected strategic force, drawing from his fifteen-year journey at the intersection of finance and technology and Oracle’s mission to embed AI directly into core finance platforms.
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Hari Sankar, Senior Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle, joins Megan Weis to explore how AI, automation, and cloud technology are fundamentally transforming the finance function. Hari brings over thirty years of experience driving enterprise transformation and is at the forefront of integrating AI into finance functions, having led Oracle’s journey with AI-powered finance tools.
With a career shaped by a pivotal insight from an MBA classmate over dinner, that finance had a substantial unmet need for analytics and planning software, Hari has spent fifteen years championing the cause of CFOs burdened by manual processes and disconnected systems. Now at Oracle, he oversees AI-powered solutions embedded directly into core finance platforms, helping organizations move from reactive scorekeeping to predictive, agentic operations.
What You'll Learn:
- Why finance has historically lagged in technology adoption and what is changing now
- The two biggest automation and prediction opportunities in finance today
- How AI is shifting the CFO role from governance and compliance to strategic advisory
- Why embedding AI inside systems of record matters more than layering it on top
- Real-world customer examples of AI-driven finance transformation across industries
- How CFOs should approach the transition to AI with a phased roadmap and agentic mindset
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