It is hard to associate AI, deep learning and big data with a chief financial officer (CFO). But now the CFO has been forced to recast his role from largely number-crunching to harnessing the power of technology to increase productivity and build efficiency. Decision-making has been transformed from being reactive to predictive. 

Raghava Rao, Amazon India's CFO, reveals how finance divisions are using technology to navigate a future where his tribe will spend 50 percent of their time managing machines and 50 percent managing people.