Bio I am a CPA Australia–qualified finance professional based in Singapore, with more than ten years of experience across healthcare finance, public-sector fund governance, and financial services. My work has consistently sat at the intersection of three things: making sure the numbers are right, making sure the controls around them are sound, and finding ways to make the operational work less painful for the people who do it. That last part - process improvement, automation, the small mechanical fixes that compound over time - is the work I find most satisfying. I have built and run reporting cycles for grant funds at the national level, supported financial governance in healthcare settings, and worked in commercial finance functions where the priority was keeping a complex business legible to the people running it. Across these environments the constants have been the same: clear records, defensible processes, and a finance function that helps the rest of the organisation make better decisions rather than slowing them down. I work in English and Mandarin, though my Mandarin is conversational rather than business fluent. I am Singaporean, born and raised, and I have built my career here. Outside of finance I enjoys building small tools - spreadsheet automations, scripts, lightweight personal apps - to make my own work and life run more smoothly. Some of that thinking shows up in what I write here.

How I work A few things I have come to believe through the work, in no particular order:

• Good finance is mostly about good records. The clever analysis comes after the plumbing is in order, not before.
• Process and people are the same problem. A control that nobody follows is not a control. A workflow that frustrates the people doing it will eventually break.
• Automation is a tool, not a goal. The right question is not 'can we automate this' but 'what is this process actually for', and then automation often follows naturally.
• Governance is care, not bureaucracy. The point is to make sure that money is being used the way it was meant to be used, and to be able to show that clearly when asked.

Credentials

• CPA Australia
• Bachelor of Accountancy, RMIT University
• Specialist Diploma in Data Analytics, Singapore Polytechnic