Gartner Finance Awards

Recognizing global finance function excellence in action

About the Gartner Finance Awards

The annual Gartner Finance Awards honor outstanding finance teams and practices around the world. In recognition of the transformational impact of AI on finance operations and capabilities, the 2026 awards program is committed to celebrating organizations that are outpacing their finance peers in AI readiness, adoption, and ROI.

Congratulations to this year's winners of the AI-Ready Data Breakthrough of the Year, AI-Ready People Breakthrough of the Year, Enterprise AI Breakthrough of the Year and Finance AI Capability of the year.

Identify and prioritize your own AI use cases

Hear how you can identify, fund and measure high-impact AI use cases with Gartner’s rigorous, repeatable approach

By clicking the "Continue" button, you are agreeing to the Gartner Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

All fields are required.

Company/Organization Information

All fields are required.

Optional

2026 Award Winners

Process Innovation of the Year

AI-Ready Data Breakthrough of the Year

Recognizes finance‑led teams that have fundamentally strengthened their data foundations (finance- and/or enterprise-wide) to enable the next generation of AI‑driven finance capabilities.

Winner: Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions

AI Breakthrough of the Year

Finance AI Capability of the Year

Recognizes an application of artificial intelligence (incl. machine learning, generative, agentic) that has revolutionized operations of finance within a company.

Winner: TRAFFIX

People Breakthrough of the Year

AI-Ready People Breakthrough of the Year

Recognizes finance leaders that have redefined their function’s skills, roles, and structure to advance towards acting as an AI-first finance team.

Winner: Insight Enterprises

People Breakthrough of the Year

Enterprise AI Breakthrough of the Year

Recognizes a finance team that has demonstrated leadership and innovation in integrating AI into their enterprise’s business and operating models.

Winner: First Abu Dhabi Bank

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.