All occupations › ManagementCan AI Replace Treasurers and Controllers in 2026? High exposure. AI could handle about 76% of today's treasurers and controllers tasks by 2036, and there is a 65% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 16% 2027: 18% 2028: 23% 2029: 29% 2030: 37% 2031: 46% 2032: 55% 2033: 63% 2034: 69% 2035: 74% 2036: 76% 37% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 99 2027: 98 2028: 97 2029: 94 2030: 91 2031: 87 2032: 84 2033: 80 2034: 78 2035: 76 2036: 75 91 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Receive cash and checks and make deposits. 2 Analyze the financial details of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed. 3 Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards. 4 Prepare and file annual tax returns or prepare financial information so that outside accountants can complete tax returns. 5 Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments. 6 Monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met. 7 Receive, record, and authorize requests for disbursements in accordance with company policies and procedures. 8 Prepare or direct preparation of financial statements, business activity reports, financial position forecasts, annual budgets, or reports required by regulatory… Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Analyze the financial details of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed". Get visibly better at your human core: "Receive cash and checks and make deposits". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Chief Executives. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 22 O*NET tasks for "Treasurers and Controllers" (SOC 11-3031.01). LLM alone: 0% of tasks; with AI tools: 95%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
