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Finance & AI Strategy | Bridging Controllership and Engineering I bridge the gap between finance and technology. My perspective is built on 19 years across the full finance stack: FP&A, Tax, Audit, and Business Controllership. I understand how these functions actually connect, and where they break. I translate these complex requirements into reliable, agentic systems. My goal is to move past "innovation theater" and build industrialized AI that finance teams can trust at scale. Key Milestone: Developed an AI-powered financial review tool at Amazon that scaled globally and earned the Kleiver Award. I combine deep regional finance experience with technical training from MIT and Anthropic to build tools that solve real-world financial problems. Open to connecting with others working at the intersection of finance, technology, and APAC. Feel free to reach out.
Inaugural Lead for the APAC Accounting AI Hub. I establish the function's vision and strategy for integrating AI and automation across operations. My core mandate is to bridge Accounting Subject Matter Expertise with global tech development. I rapidly build and pilot scalable AI solutions (POCs), establishing a pipeline for worldwide adoption, ultimately reducing manual effort and supporting scalable growth. Concurrently, I drive AI literacy and define the high-performance culture across the APAC accounting community. Awarded the 2025 Kleiver Award for the end-to-end development of a first-of-its-kind AI tool for global financial statement reviews. This proprietary solution was scaled from an initial pilot to full integration across all global accounting teams, driving significant automation and accuracy in controllership.
Primary owner of APAC audit relationship with the regional EY Hub, leading strategic initiatives and process improvements across the region. Annually lead Day 2 of the APAC-LATAM Audit Summit, delivering an impactful keynote to over 200 in-person and virtual attendees Regional Alteryx champion, designing and implementing automation solutions to reduce manual effort across APAC finance operations. Awarded the Q2 2025 Amazon Accounting Global Leadership Award for exemplifying the 'Deliver Results' principle by leading a global-first initiative. This project pioneered new audit performance metrics that were highly commended by four L10 VPs for their potential to drive continuous improvement in audit methodologies.
Actively lead process improvement and special projects, establish reporting cadence and support local entities in achieving their compliance objectives in the complex statutory compliance environment of the APAC region. Support the tax Transfer Pricing (TP) team on TP reporting, reviewing and updating of inter-company recharge models. Work closely with global Corporate Tax colleagues and external professional service providers on cross-functional projects. Awarded a Worldwide Incentive Nomination (WIN) award for successfully leading the redesign of the Asia HQ offshore management service fees process to reduce complexity and assist in the VAT exemptions for China and achieved a total tax savings of US$1.78M.
Implement roll-out strategy to expand the Statutory and Tax Compliance Centre of Excellence in the SEA region. (Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) Lead and oversee the Statutory (Financial Reporting, Consolidation and managing Audits) and Tax Compliance Center of Excellence team in the region to business partner with legal and taxation specialists and coordinate with the relevant internal and external auditors.
Oversee all Statutory (Financial Reporting, Consolidation and managing Audits) and Tax compliance matters for all 12 legal entities in the ANZ region. Business partnering with legal and taxation specialists, coordination with the relevant internal and external auditors Ensure timely compliance of all deliverables to local government authorities , and support group level reporting as required by global Corporate HQ. Awarded the Stanley Management Award for achieving a "high level of assurance" rating with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) Streamline Assessment Review for FY2017 to 2019.
Finance Business Partner to the Global Strategic Sourcing business globally headquartered out of the Singapore Regional Centre. (FP&A, Controlling, Transfer Pricing/ Inter-Company Recharges, Budgeting & Forecasting)
Business Partner to 2 Global Business Units (with revenues of over €400m) to drive process improvement and cost controlling projects towards economical decision-making and value generation. Collaborated with regional plant controllers in Germany, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, India and China. Ensured strict compliance with BASF Inter-Company Transfer Pricing guidelines and maintained adequate documentation to support Transfer Pricing audit defence. Monitored Transfer Pricing movements and variances impacting profit delivery.
Business Partner to the Global Book Owner to monitor and deliver accurate and timely revenue reports for the Manganese Ores business (with annual revenue of over US$1 Billion).