Updated on 20 July 2026
AI in Finance and Controlling: predictive, self-learning forecasts and autonomous agents
AI & Analytics Lead, Intelligent Finance at Südzucker AG
Pforzheim, Germany
About
We run the finance and controlling backbone of a 100-year-old industrial group with 8.4 billion euros in revenue and five business segments. That means planning, forecasting, reporting and consolidation at serious scale. And we believe most of it can work fundamentally smarter.
We are looking for partners to build with us, not just sell to us. Concretely, we want to explore:
Predictive Finance. Forecasts for sales, cash flow, raw material costs and P&L that learn from data instead of relying on gut feeling and Excel history. Driver-based, self-correcting, always current.
Agentic Finance. Autonomous agents that take over real controlling work: variance analysis that explains itself, month-end closing checks that run on their own, commentary drafted before the controller even opens the report. From copilot to colleague.
Anything we haven't thought of yet. If you have a use case that made a finance function faster, sharper or more forward-looking, we want to see it.
What we bring: real data, real processes, a complex multi-segment group as a testing ground, and the mandate to pilot. What we look for: partners with working technology and the ambition to prove it in production, not in slides.
If you build AI for finance, let's talk.
Stage
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
Topic
- AI & Generative AI
- Generative AI
- Business Assistants / AI Co-pilots
- Data Governance and Compliance
- Other
Type
- Technical /Technological cooperation
Organisation
Company
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Pilots and integration partners for sovereign knowledge-capture AI
- Other
- Excecution
- Trusted AI
- Generative AI
- AI & Generative AI
- Data Governance and Compliance
- Business Assistants / AI Co-pilots
- Technical /Technological cooperation
- Document Automation and Knowledge Management
Julien Braun
Founder at Pollux
Strasbourg, France
Product
- Other
- Health
- Climate
- Defence
- FinTech
- Autiomotive
- Industry 4.0
- Construction
- Smart Cities
- Subcontractor
- Manufacturing
- Public Authorities
- Electronics, IT et Telecoms
- Demonstration / Pilot projects
- Transport, Mobility, Logistics
- Cultural & creative industries
- Environment (GreenTech & CleanTech)
- Energy (Energy Efficiency, Decarbonisation, ,,,)
Sebastian Noelting
Business Development Manger at Pyramid Computer GmbH
Ettlingen, Germany
Expertise
- Trusted AI
- Industrial AI
- Generative AI
- IT Cybersecurity
- Change Management
- AI & Generative AI
- Edge AI / Embedded AI
- Predictive maintenance
- IT/OT interoperability
- Production optimization
- Robotics and automation
- Supply chain and logistics
- Cybersecurity for AI Systems
- Data Governance and Compliance
- Business Assistants / AI Co-pilots
- Industrial Data / Data Utilization
- Quality control using computer vision
- Industrial Cybersecurity / OT Security
- Industrial Cloud and Data Infrastructure
- Document Automation and Knowledge Management
- Modelling, simulation, predictive technologies
Hugo Sedouramane
Journalist - Editorial Lead at Orange Hello Future
Schiltigheim, France