Writing
Finance, data and AI, from the work itself
Posts first published on LinkedIn, kept here in full.
14 October 2026AI
A silent failure gets signed off
Asked for 100 records. Received 80. Reported 96% coverage. Nothing failed. No errors. No alerts.
28 September 2026
Nobody blames a 2CV for losing a Formula 1 race
Finance teams get entered in the wrong race all the time. The logic is easy to follow: headcount is the most visible cost in the function, and a large low-cost…
20 September 2026
Year-end simply presents the bill
Not because December was hard. Because the eleven months before it had no calendar, no reconciliation discipline and nobody who owned the balance sheet. The…
8 September 2026AI
AI’s Real Problem in Finance Isn't the Model — It's the Onboarding
Nobody hands a new hire the keys to close the books on day one. They shadow, they get reviewed, they earn scope gradually — because one bad journal entry…
4 September 2026AI
AI amplifies whatever foundation you give it
That is the part the pilot deck never says. The tool works. The demo is convincing. And six months later the output is wrong in the same ways the manual…
14 July 2025AI
How AI Will Make Traditional Finance Transformation Obsolete (And How to Prepare)
The finance transformation roles we’ve known for the last 10–15 years — ERP rollouts, process reengineering, template automation — are on their way out.
11 June 2025
How We Solved SAP’s Strict Validation Rules During Our Data Migration (Part 2)
In Part 1, I walked through the challenges of migrating financial data from PeopleSoft to SAP & Coupa across 14 companies — including poor legacy data quality…
11 June 2025
Migrating Financial Data from PeopleSoft to SAP & Coupa – Lessons Learned (Part 1)
I recently joined a high-stakes finance transformation project with the goal of migrating financial data from PeopleSoft to SAP and Coupa across 14 companies.…
4 June 2025AI
Transform Your Financial Decision-Making: Clean Data & Enrichment Are the Real Game Changers
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, data is your most powerful asset — but only if it's clean, connected, and enriched.
Global Future Nexus Bulletin
13 October 2026 · Olivier Jobert, with Claude, DeepSeek and Qwen
The moving goalpost: who gets to define AGIAny claim that turns on "AGI" should state its test in advance and name an independent judge. That is a controller's rule, applied to AI.