Proactive Risk Management: ERM and Internal Controls | Sruthi Lanka

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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 Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and 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

About Our Guest:
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sruthilanka
• Public.com: http://public.com/

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Guest Sruthi Lanka
6:18 Mentorship, CFO role, and leveraging engineering and accounting backgrounds
11:41 Internal controls and automation in a financial organization
15:21 Automating financial processes and controls
21:51 AI in finance, automation, and compliance
27:12 Automating financial processes and improving accuracy
32:30 Finance leadership, automation, and promoting women in tech
36:59 Rapid fire questions

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