Staying Compliant While Keeping Finance Operations Lean | Sruthi Lanka

About This Episode

Startups in highly regulated industries have to strike a tough balance — keeping operations both lean and compliant. 

Sruthi Lanka, CFO at Public.com, leans on her engineering background, as well as out-of-the-box thinking from her team, to meet both criteria. Sruthi explains why she made process efficiency a top priority for her team, and how a combination of high and low-tech solutions have created efficiencies and mitigated risk. 

Learn what it takes to fortify your organization against unforeseen risk management challenges with this in-depth look at internal controls.

Discussed in This Episode

• The impact of automation on internal controls and how to make time for automation when you’re resource-constrained
• The importance of accurate and unified data across the business
• Ensuring regulatory and data compliance when leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)
• How smarter checks and balances and risk management can improve the quality of your business

Episode Resources

• Why What-If Scenario Analysis Is Critical for Driving Decision-Making
• Doing More With Less: 6 Tips for Automating Your Finance Operations
• The F-Suite
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making