Figma CFO：AI 让财务模型人人能建，招聘考核重点变为是否真正理解
Figma 的 CFO 说团队一两个月建了 40-50 个 agents，面试时专考你会不会被 AI 替代思考，财务人值得听
Figma CFO Praveer Melwani 在 a16z 播客中谈到，借助 LLM，任何人都能快速搭出一个财务模型，因此他在招聘 VP of finance 时把案例考核的重点放在候选人是否真正理解自己搭建的模型结构、能否对业务形成直觉并有效表达。他的团队在一两个月内建了 40 到 50 个 agents，替代了过去手工写数百行 SQL 取数的工作。他提出 CFO 的角色正从“交通警察”转向业务赋能者，但前提是使用者仍保留独立思考，不把思考外包给 AI。
Figma CFO Praveer Melwani says AI makes a financial model easy to build, so his hiring case study tests whether you still did the thinking: "Right now I'm hiring for a VP of finance. And the case study part of the process for me is so, so sacred. I wanna both test for, how are you using the tools available to you... but how you actually piece those puzzle pieces together in a way that actually makes sense." "Have you really, really understood the structure that you've created?... Do you have a strong intuition on how the business is actually working using the tool that you've created? Can you effectively communicate that?" "Anyone can go and create like a model. Pick your favorite LLM. You can go and do that really, really easily. But are you using it as an effective tool that actually is enabling you to think?" "You don't wanna outsource your thinking today. I think you wanna use AI as a tool to help you and empower you. But it's really, really critical to still be that thinker." @figma Your browser does not support the video tag. 🔗 View on Twitter a16z @a16z Figma CFO Praveer Melwani used to spend his days writing hundreds of lines of SQL just to get one set of numbers everyone trusted. Now his finance team builds its own AI tools to do that work. He sees the CFO's job shifting from traffic cop to business enabler, as long as the people doing the building still own their thinking. Praveer joins a16z's Seema Amble and Ivan Makarov, authors of "You Need a New CFO," to discuss the growth-stage finance team that built 40 to 50 agents in a month or two, what breaks when every rep vibe codes their own dashboard, and how finance went from sitting out hackathons to winning them. 0:00 From traffic cop to business enabler 8:48 Hire people who understand the model 12:20 Vibe coding a target to test moats 13:15 An AI Dylan Field reviews the memos 18:01 Let AI make the messy data calls 20:00 Unused agents still build the habit 20:46 The CIO's new job: scale what works 22:36 The rise of the finance engineer 26:24 Why the board trusts his numbers 30:25 AI tools as a recruiting perk 40:35 Why Excel is his "love language" 44:20 What to look for in your next CFO YouTube: youtu.be/9iAQdKxyiQc @figma @seema_amble @IvanoMakSF Your browser does not support the video tag. 🔗 View on Twitter 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 3 🔄 0 ❤️ 7 👀 4452 📊 3 ⚡
