180 episodios
- AI transformation is a problem of governance, not technology. Anthony Habayeb, CEO of Monitaur, argues that organizations don’t need to spin up a new AI governance framework, but they need better use of the controls CFOs and auditors already own.
In this episode:
-Why AI pilots stall and what it reveals about governance gaps
-How to build an AI governance framework from structures you already have
-Why the agent isn’t the risk, but the use case is
-Who owns accountability when an autonomous system takes action?
-How CFOs and audit teams are becoming the forcing function for AI quality
Subscribe for episodes on the issues shaping finance, audit, risk, and sustainability at the C-suite level. - Most climate risk assessments are missing hazards, scoping too narrowly, and leaving physical climate risk under-analyzed. Linda Romanovska helped write the rules, and she’s here to explain what better reporting looks like.
As co-author of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards and a member of the EU Sustainability Reporting Board, Linda has spent 20 years working on climate risk assessment across sectors and jurisdictions. She joined The Pre-Read to break down what mandatory climate-related financial disclosure requires.
In this episode:
Why most climate risk assessments assess too few hazards
The key differences between physical climate risk and transition risk
How to scope scenarios and time horizons without cutting corners
What climate-related financial disclosure users want to see
Where AI is making climate risk assessment faster and more audit-ready - The M&A market is heating up, and AI is compressing deal timelines from weeks to days.
In this episode of The Pre-Read, guest host Josh Gertsch and Troy Hooper of Mergermarket provide a capital markets update that touches on the SpaceX IPO, the quiet M&A surge, and why quality assets with resilient cash flows are winning. Then, guest host Esther Toth talks with Latitude Financial Services CFO Guillaume Leger about leading finance teams through change, AI, and why sustainability reporting is a frontier CFOs can’t ignore.
0:00 What’s in this episode
1:56 Capital markets & M&A update with Josh and Troy
3:32 The IPO boom and M&A recovery
4:39 Trends driving M&A
13:18 Esther asks Guillaume about guiding finance teams through change
16:55 Upsides and downsides to AI in finance
19:48 The new frontier of financial reporting
Subscribe to The Pre-Read for weekly conversations at the intersection of finance, sustainability, audit, and risk. - Sustainability reporting and financial reporting are converging fast. But the controller who treats them as the same thing could get burned.
In this episode, Dr. Lee Hui Mien of Singtel and Jonathan Gregory of The Hershey Company offer their views on one urgent question: what does it actually mean to bring sustainability reporting under the finance umbrella, and where does that process break down?
Chapters:
0:00 — Intro
2:30 — Dr. Lee Hui Mien on why sustainability data is fundamentally different
8:45 — Why restatement in sustainability is a feature, not a failure
13:20 — Scope 3 and why supply chain visibility can break down at tier two
19:10 — Jonathan Gregory, Global Controller at The Hershey Company
24:00 — AI governance and segregation of duties
29:45 — What the next five years demand from controllers
Guests:
Dr. Lee Hui Mien, Sustainability Leader, Singtel
Jonathan Gregory, Global Controller, The Hershey Company
Subscribe to The Pre-Read for more conversations at the intersection of finance, sustainability, audit, and risk. - Boards are under pressure to govern AI responsibly, but most directors still lack the knowledge to ask the right questions, let alone hold management accountable. Two leaders explain what it actually takes.
Dr. Chong Yoke Sin chairs Singapore’s SCS AI Ethics and Governance Council and sits on financial services, property, and healthcare boards. Heather Holding is Chief Risk Officer at Best Egg and hosts an AI adoption series called “AI With Heather.” They’ve approached AI governance from opposite ends of the org chart—and landed on the same answer.
In this episode:
Why fiduciary responsibility now extends to AI (and what that means for directors who lack technical backgrounds)
How continuous AI monitoring is disrupting the traditional three-lines-of-defense model
The “organize my closet” onboarding method that got an entire risk team using AI regularly
Why curiosity is the most important governance capability of the next 12 months
What “clean data in” means for getting AI outputs you can trust
Subscribe to The Pre-Read for bi-weekly insight for finance, risk, audit, and sustainability leaders.
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Just like the slides you get before a big meeting, The Pre-Read prepares CFOs and senior leaders for the decisions ahead. This is the global podcast for the modern office of the CFO, focused on how finance leaders drive performance, resilience, and long-term value in a constantly shifting environment.
Designed for executives operating at scale, the show features candid conversations with CFOs, board advisors, regulators, and business leaders shaping how companies compete, comply, and grow. Hosts Alyssa Zucker and Steve Soter connect financial performance, data integrity, regulation, and technology to the real questions CFOs are being asked by boards, investors, and stakeholders.
From AI adoption and enterprise data trust to evolving disclosure expectations and global regulatory pressure, The Pre-Read focuses on what matters now and what's coming next. Each episode cuts through noise to surface practical insight, strategic perspective, and the signals CFOs need to lead with clarity. If you're responsible for stewarding capital, managing risk, and creating value over time, you're in the right place.
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