I am a Fellow of the ICAEW, a Registered Auditor and Partner at Sygma Chartered Accountants, with more than twenty years' experience across accountancy, audit, tax, financial statements, finance systems, business advice and professional review. I have been involved with, advised and prepared financial information for more than 1,000 businesses. I am now applying that experience to AI review, governance and assurance, particularly where finance-domain knowledge, critical judgement, controls and real-world business context matter.
My career has been built around preparing and reviewing accounts and financial statements, applying extensive tax knowledge, auditing financial information, advising businesses, making decisions from imperfect evidence and taking responsibility for the quality of professional work. That makes AI review and assurance a natural extension of skills I already use every day.
Extensive experience preparing and reviewing accounts, financial statements and financial information, together with tax, audit, controls, evidence, materiality and professional judgement. I have worked with and advised more than 1,000 businesses across my career.
Advising finance teams and owner-managed businesses, implementing finance software and systems, improving workflows and helping people adopt technology without creating unnecessary complexity.
Years of advising directors and organisations means understanding the decision behind the question, explaining trade-offs clearly and recognising when technically correct advice is not commercially useful.
Audit and senior accountancy work are built around challenge. Does the evidence support the conclusion? What has been omitted? Are the assumptions reasonable? Is the explanation internally consistent? Would I be comfortable relying on this output in the real world?
Those are fundamentally useful questions when reviewing AI systems, particularly in finance and professional-services use cases where reliability, oversight and evidence matter.
Used to testing claims against evidence, reconciling inconsistencies and probing what sits behind a conclusion.
Comfortable identifying where a process can go wrong, what needs oversight and where human review still matters.
Experienced in explaining complex findings to clients, teams and decision-makers in straightforward language.
I care whether a system is useful, trusted and practical — not simply whether it can produce an impressive demo.
I use AI extensively in practice, build AI-enabled workflows and tools, and am developing a deeper specialism in AI governance, assurance and implementation. The focus is on reviewing whether AI is accurate, controlled, appropriately governed and genuinely useful in the real world — bringing senior domain expertise and professional judgement where those qualities matter.
Review AI outputs, reasoning, evidence and controls; identify weaknesses and risks; assess finance-domain accuracy; and provide clear, structured findings for improvement and oversight.
Useful where AI is being relied upon in accounting, tax, financial statements, financial reporting, audit, controls, business advice or wider professional-services scenarios.
Experience implementing software and improving finance processes means I naturally look at usability, adoption, human oversight and whether the technology actually makes the work better.
I am interested in AI review, governance and assurance work, particularly where accounting, tax, financial statements, audit, finance or professional judgement are relevant. This can include targeted reviews of AI outputs and controls, governance readiness and broader assurance-oriented work.
