Building the accounting organization of 2030

Most accountants want an answer to one question: does my team get smaller?

Sort of. This guide maps the way the accounting org will shift by 2030. The roles that appear in the middle of the org, what those people are measured on, where new accountants learn when the entry-level work is gone, and what auditors will ask the first time an agent makes a determination.

What's inside

• A side-by-side of the 2020 accounting pyramid and the 2030 diamond
• The AI process owner role: what it owns, what it hands to systems teams, and why it gets scored on a falling error rate
• How new accountants learn the fundamentals once agents handle the processing
• What changes when accounting's view of cash is current daily instead of monthly at close
• The governance and monitoring function that answers the segregation of duties question, including what gets tested under SOX

Built on interviews with Zip's chief accounting officer, assistant controller, and managing director of enterprise transformation, plus survey data from 1,050 procurement, finance, IT, and operations leaders.