It's a little bit of a superpower for finance teams now — having the ability to generate these scripts on the fly for the things we do.
Sowmya Ranganathan
Former Controller at OpenAI
Supercharge Excel sheets with AI
Watch OpenAI's former controller live-demo how to use Excel's new agent mode and ChatGPT to automate your most repetitive finance workflows—no coding experience required.
Most finance teams still run their gnarliest workflows in Excel — revenue recognition schedules, deferred revenue waterfalls, month-over-month flux, T&E review. Hours of repeating work, every month. AI can take a big chunk of it off your plate, if you know which tools to reach for and how to prompt them.
In this on-demand session, Sowmya Ranganathan — founder of Lumera and former controller at OpenAI and Rippling — runs a series of live demos: Excel Labs' brand-new agent mode making changes directly inside your spreadsheet, and ChatGPT writing Python scripts that turn half-day monthly processes into one-click runs.
Whether you've never written a line of Python or you're already mid-experiment, this session gives you the exact prompts and patterns to start automating the work you do every month.
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