Event Recap: Agentic AI & Guardrails - Navigating Opportunities and Risks in Finance and Accounting

Imagine this: an invoice arrives, gets verified, matched, coded, and recorded—all automatically, with no human in sight. This is agentic AI in practice: systems empowered to act on their own. The advantage is compelling—faster workflows, lower costs, and fewer errors. But the risk is just as real: when machines make decisions, how do organizations stay in control?

The joint session held on 23 July 2025 between SGListCos and Deloitte brought together finance and technology leaders to explore how agentic AI is reshaping finance.

• Haridas (Das) Kanagasabai, Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte
• Aditya Shankar, Director, Monitor Deloitte
• Zi Yong Chua, Chief Operating Officer, Carro

Trust is finance’s ultimate currency, and yet is precisely what AI-driven systems make harder to assign. - Haridas (Das) Kanagasabai, Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte

He highlighted the urgency for boards and auditors to build governance around systems that make decisions faster than humans can review.

To remove humans from workflows, organizations must evolve their data structures, models, and compute foundations. - Aditya Shankar, Director, Monitor Deloitte

Zi Yong Chua shared how Carro has deployed generative AI to automate audits of over 40,000 customer service tickets monthly, offering real-time feedback to agents.

Panel Discussion Highlights

• Emily Ng, Head of Applications, Oracle
• Pramodh Rai, Co-Founder, Cyber Sierra
• Aditya Shankar, Director, Monitor Deloitte

Moderated by Tanya Shariff, AP AI SGO Strategic Initiative Lead, Deloitte, the panel featured insights on AI applications in finance.

Emily Ng shared how Oracle leverages AI-powered assistants to scan receipts, automate expense reports, and accelerate book closing, enabling organizations to respond more quickly to changing demands. Pramodh pointed out that 'once superintelligence is cracked, you win at a cyber, social, and biological level.'

Don’t wait for perfect answers—start building. Start a movement, not a mandate. - Recurring message throughout the session

As Agentic AI continues to move from pilot to production, a stronger partnership between finance, technology, and risk functions will be critical.