Most finance teams are under pressure to do something with AI. The pressure produces a predictable pattern. Buy a tool. Run a pilot. Declare progress. Move on. That is not a strategy. A strategy is a short list of specific workflows that, if built well, would save the finance team real time on real work. Three workflows are worth building this year in almost every finance team I have seen. The first is variance commentary. Not just for the board deck. For every internal revie