Long term outlook for Corporate Finance / FP&A as a career choice

I currently work in a FP&A finance role at a FAANG company in Silicon Valley. I interact with engineers and product managers on a daily basis and I am seeing first hand how everything is getting automated and how every product or process now has a AI / ML component to it. Anything that can be automated is being automated. Period.

The latest example is that every expense report in our company is now being run through an AI program that can detect outliers and can flag expense reports that need further analysis, where as in my previous companies someone would go through each expense report manually line-by-line or if the volume was to high, they would pick random samples for further analysis. That's just one example among many where a piece of software can do what multiple humans can in a fraction of the time. Software is really eating the world.

Now I'm afraid that the career path I chose (corporate finance) will become obsolete within the next 10-15 years, with more mechanical roles like accounting, revenue recognition, quarterly reporting, SOX compliance etc. getting eliminated even sooner. I'm too old to go back and get a software engineering degree, but don't want to find myself in my mid-40s or early 50s without a job and dwindling career prospects.

Would love to hear thoughts on whether you think my concerns are unfounded and that I'm thinking to far ahead (it's hard not to when you are surrounded by the kind of technologies and smart engineers like I am in the Bay Area). Anyone here have had to change job functions late in their career? What are some ways in which you can prevent your skills from getting outdated as you get older?