A 30-minute conversation between two technology leaders who have seen finance transformation from the inside.
Finance analysts still spend 60–70% of their time gathering, cleaning and reconciling data. Not analysing it. Not supporting decisions. Just keeping the lights on.
This episode is about why that persists and what the organisations that are successfully applying AI in finance today actually did first. Not opening ChatGPT. Real AI applications built on top of governed financial data, used for data discovery, forecasting, and business decision making. The kind of transformation that changes how a finance team operates, not just how fast it can answer one question.
Jakub Žalio led that transformation at Creditinfo across 30 markets. He talks about what it actually took, the challenges nobody warns you about, the benefits that surprised them, and what he would do differently. Jiří Maňas has seen the same patterns repeat across dozens of organisations and brings the perspective of someone who has sat inside many of these journeys.
If you are a CFO or finance leader thinking about where to start, this is the conversation worth your time.
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Jiří Maňas
CTO, Keboola
30 years driving digital change across banking, finance and retail - at GE Money, Erste Group, Home Credit and P3 Logistic Parks. At Keboola he leads the engineering team building the platform. A firm believer that people at every level of a company should have access to meaningful data and be able to make decisions with it.
Jakub Žalio
Group CTO, Creditinfo Group
Led the full data transformation at Creditinfo - a financial services business operating across 30 markets. Didn't start with AI. Started with a problem. Read the Creditinfo story: keboola.com/customer-stories
Podcast series
We made this series because the honest conversations about finance transformation are rare. Everyone presents the polished version. The real story, the resistance, the moments of doubt, the unexpected wins, rarely makes it into a keynote.
At Keboola we have been through these transformations with many finance teams. Every journey is different. But the questions at the start are almost always the same.
So we sit down with the leaders who have actually done it and let them tell it as it was.
Episode 2 — Coming soon
14 systems. 11 countries. One foundation.
Thilo Kusch — Group CFO, P3 Logistic Parks
Thilo Kusch and Jiří Maňas built a data foundation together across 14 systems and 11 countries. Thilo talks about the moment he knew the status quo had to change, and what it looked like on the other side.
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