OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: I wouldn’t hire a finance person who doesn’t know how to use …

OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, believes familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI) tools is becoming an important skill for finance professionals. She has compared the importance of current AI tools to that of spreadsheet software in previous decades. Speaking at the Liquidity Summit 2026, Friar said OpenAI’s hiring expectations are evolving alongside the rapid adoption of AI across workplaces.

According to a report by Fortune, Friar said, “I would never hire a finance person who didn’t know how to use Excel, and I probably wouldn’t hire a finance person today that doesn’t know how to use a tool like Codex.”