KPMG Financial Reporting podcast How OpenAI is using agents in accounting and finance
Mar 18, 2026
Alex Gee, Head of Financial Integrity at OpenAI, builds the finance team of the future and leads AI adoption in accounting. He discusses using autonomous agents to automate repetitive accounting tasks. He covers designing AI-first finance structures, prioritizing projects with hackathons and OKRs, and demos like Codex-driven form-filling and audit-ready Excel tools.
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Finance Technology Team Scales AI Ideas
- OpenAI created an enterprise finance technology division to convert ideas into production AI tools rather than one-off chat interactions.
- That team builds APIs and agents so finance teams scale solutions beyond prototypes.
Spreadsheet Cleanup Led To A New Career Path
- A manager consolidated a fragmented 10-day compute accounting close into a one-click automated process.
- He used the freed time to learn data center architecture and became head of compute optimization in the business.
Agents Need Reasoning And Reliable Data
- Agents are autonomous systems that can think, reason, and take actions across systems, not just Q&A bots.
- They require reliable, consolidated data to make correct decisions and avoid conflicting outputs.