Short answer: Not unless you share it. Financials is confidential to your founding group by default, and you or a co-founder can deliberately share it with one team member if you want help completing it.
Who can see it by default
Financials opens automatically for your founding group: you as the firm owner, plus anyone you have made a co-founder. You all see the same figures, because a firm's numbers are shared between the people who own it.
Nobody else can open it. That includes an ops lead or 2IC who has been handed every other section. A wide delegation does not reach Financials, and no job title or admin role opens it on its own.
Sharing it with a team member
If someone else does your numbers, a bookkeeper, a finance manager, or an operations lead who handles the books, you can share this one section with them. In the delegate panel, Financials appears as a card badged CONFIDENTIAL. Select it like any other section and send the invite.
Only a founder can do this. If you are an admin but not a founder, the same row appears locked and reads "Confidential - only a founder can share it".
Sharing gives that person viewing and editing on Financials, and it lets them connect Xero and pull your figures in. It does not let them disconnect Xero, and it does not open any other section for them.
Note: Sharing Financials is reversible. A founder can take the access back at any time from Settings, then Team, without removing the person from your firm.
What everyone else sees
Every teammate sees that Financials exists and how far along it is on the shared dashboard, alongside all nine sections. It shows with a lock and a CONFIDENTIAL chip, so your team knows it is there without being able to open it.
Note: That visibility is limited to the section's status, not its contents. A teammate you have not shared it with cannot see revenue, profit, cashflow figures, or your Xero connection.
Can I hide sensitive answers inside a section I share?
Not field by field. Sharing a section always grants viewing and editing together, so whoever holds it sees everything in it. The one built-in exception is in Your Team: each employee's base salary and discretionary pay stay restricted even when you hand the rest of that section to someone else.
Tip: If a section holds something you would rather nobody else saw, keep it unshared and complete it yourself.