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    How AI Is Turning Figma’s Finance Team Into Builders

    Praveer Melwani, Seema Amble, Ivan Makarov, Yvonne

    At Figma, Finance Leader Praveer Malwani is transforming the CFO function from operational oversight into a strategic business enabler by deploying generative AI to automate data reconciliation and accelerate decision cycles from weeks to hours. The organization prioritizes hiring intellectually curious "finance engineers" who maintain data integrity and critical thinking to build proprietary automation workflows for credit, corporate development, and investment analysis. While this "automation first" strategy promises to handle static complexity, the team balances rapid prototyping with rigorous data foundations to ensure outputs remain trustworthy as the role evolves toward broader business ownership.