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Treasurers and Controllers
Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Evaluate needs for procurement of funds and investment of surpluses and make appropriate recommendations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Develop and maintain relationships with banking, insurance, and external accounting personnel to facilitate financial activities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Receive, record, and authorize requests for disbursements in accordance with company policies and procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Advise management on short-term and long-term financial objectives, policies, and actions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement, or investment activities of all or part of an organization.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Prepare or direct preparation of financial statements, business activity reports, financial position forecasts, annual budgets, or reports required by regulatory agencies.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities, such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Receive cash and checks and make deposits.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss39%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
47%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 50% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 29% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Receive cash and checks and make deposits.