📊 Sri Lanka Finance Talent Urged to Evolve into Strategic Advisers

Sri Lanka’s finance & accounting sector is being urged to shift from traditional compliance roles to become trusted strategic advisers to support national economic recovery and long-term reform. • Strategic Transformation: Automation and AI will absorb routine compliance and data processing, pushing professionals to provide forward-looking insights, risk management, and long-term strategic guidance. • Core Capabilities Needed: Success requires investing in skills development, specifically strategic and critical thinking, ethics, collaboration, scenario planning, and responsible AI usage. • Global Insight Alignment: Findings from AICPA and CIMA’s Rise2040 initiative (incorporating 6,000 global insights) highlight that connecting finance with strategy, operations, and technology underpins modern value creation. • National Context: Leveraging Sri Lanka’s talent pool in financial Services and ICT/BPM will be critical to navigating market uncertainty and driving sustainable growth.