How Data Strategy Drives AI Strategy in Finance

An Honest Conversation on What AI Readiness Actually Means in Finance

• What a clean data foundation means in practice: one source of truth, maintained continuously — not assembled at month-end
• Nidhi's patterns learned from two decades across KKR, H.I.G., and PSG portcos: why some data strategies stick and others stall
• Where AI earns trust today — forecasting, variance analysis, reporting — and where messy data creates reliability and compliance risk
• How the finance org evolves as work shifts from assembly to analysis, and where to start in the next 90 days