OpenAI and PwC are teaming up to help enterprises reimagine the office of the CFO, utilising AI agents that can automate workflows, coordinate across systems, surface risks and insights, and support better decisions with strong governance and human oversight.
The partnership aims at building AI agents around the core operating rhythms of finance, from planning, forecasting, and reporting to procurement, payments, treasury, tax, and the accounting close.
As part of this initiative, PwC and OpenAI will build a procurement agent inside the OpenAI finance organisation, applying learnings to additional agents across core finance workflows.
The hands-on model will be speeding up innovation, to prove the value of an AI native finance function in practice at OpenAI, and continuously improve the offering based on learnings.
The focus of this collaboration will be on practical, high-value workflows where AI agents can execute and coordinate work under human supervision. This includes:
- Procurement agents that guide intake, create requisitions, answer policy questions, record item receipt and support procurement workflows
- Specialised agents that accelerate contract review, perform risk assessments, and power other autonomous finance operations
- Bespoke applications that help automate accruals, accelerate close activities, streamline reporting, and deliver customized dashboards — enabling domain experts to build targeted solutions around enterprise platforms faster and better serve stakeholders.
As agentic workflows scale, CFOs need visibility into AI usage, token consumption, and projected spend, so finance teams can govern adoption the same way they manage other enterprise operating costs.
