{"id":1013268,"date":"2026-06-09T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013268"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:27:48","slug":"openai-cfo-sarah-friar-i-wouldnt-hire-a-finance-person-who-doesnt-know-how-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-i-wouldnt-hire-a-finance-person-who-doesnt-know-how-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: I wouldn&#8217;t hire a finance person who doesn\u2019t know how to use \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s 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\u2019s hiring expectations are evolving alongside the rapid adoption of AI across workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Fortune, Friar said, \u201cI would never hire a finance person who didn\u2019t know how to use Excel, and I probably wouldn\u2019t hire a finance person today that doesn\u2019t know how to use a tool like Codex.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s 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\u2019s hiring expectations are evolving alongside the rapid adoption of AI across workplaces. According to a report by Fortune, Friar said, \u201cI would never hire a finance person who didn\u2019t know how to use Excel, and I probably wouldn\u2019t hire a finance person today that doesn\u2019t know how to use a tool like Codex.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013269,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013268\/revisions\/1013269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}