Evidence before conclusions.
IFRS reporting, consolidations, audit evidence, internal controls, goodwill impairment, corporate tax audit work and IFRS 17 implementation assurance.
01 / WHAT I BRING
I understand the accounts.
And the work behind them.
My career has moved from testing financial information to building the systems that prepare, review and explain it.
At PwC, I worked in financial-services assurance across insurance, healthcare, software and services. At Draftworx, I translate accounting standards and audit methodology into financial-statement templates, working papers and software workflows. Alongside that work, I build and test AI tools that make professional knowledge easier to use.
Make the work better.
Turn ambiguous requirements into usable tools. Work across accountants, developers, testers and customers. Document what works so the next person can build on it.
02 / THE JOURNEY
A foundation in accounting.
A direction toward building.
2017 — 2020
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
Building the technical foundation
BCom in Accounting Sciences (2017–2019), followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting Sciences (2020). The formal foundation for a career in financial reporting, assurance, financial management and taxation.
JAN 2021 — DEC 2023
PWC SOUTH AFRICA · ASSURANCE
From associate to senior associate
Completed a three-year training contract in financial-services assurance, with work across insurance and other listed groups. Built practical depth in IFRS financial statements, group scoping, consolidations, controls, substantive testing and corporate tax calculations.
Selected work at PwC
Goodwill & group audit coordination · 2023
During the Afrocentric engagement, led planning and coordinated client process owners, component auditors, delivery centres and specialists. Directed goodwill impairment testing across 15 cash-generating units, evaluating forecast cash flows and working with valuation specialists and business executives.
Data & automation
Automated data consolidation and group-scoping work. Built Power BI dashboards for audit analytics and a staff-availability and resource-planning dashboard for PwC HR partners across the Africa practice.
JAN — FEB 2024
PWC SOUTH AFRICA · SENIOR ASSOCIATE 2
Bridging accounting and actuarial work
Extended my time at PwC to contribute to Liberty’s IFRS 17 implementation audit. Co-led the work with another senior associate, collaborating with actuarial teams and IFRS 17 specialists to connect valuation outputs, accounting requirements and audit evidence.
Qualified as a CA(SA) in 2024.MAR — JUN 2024
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Exploring where finance meets technology
After PwC, took a career break and pursued focused learning in crypto accounting and blockchain through the Crypto Accounting Academy. Continued developing practical skills in Python, APIs, data analysis and automation.
JUL 2024 — PRESENT
DRAFTWORX
Building accounting software from the inside
Template Developer & AI Strategy Lead
Develop audit working papers and financial-reporting templates, translate technical requirements into reliable logic, and build AI and automation tools around the work. My scope spans South African public-sector audit workflows, UK and related international reporting frameworks, and Canadian ASPE template development.
A closer look at the work03 / BUILDING AT DRAFTWORX
Turning professional requirements
into software people can use.
Accounting knowledge matters most when it survives contact with real data, real users and a release deadline.
Audit methodology → working software
Develop and maintain working papers for the Auditor-General South Africa environment, including PFMA and MFMA workflows. Translate audit methodology into spreadsheet logic, named ranges, validations and documentation, with testing and release support.
International financial reporting
Build and refine financial-statement templates for FRS 102, Section 1A and FRS 105, including company and LLP reporting and related jurisdiction variants. Extend that framework knowledge through Canadian ASPE template work.
Connect accounting detail to product decisions
Investigate formulas, workbook structure, cross-references and print outputs; work with developers and testers to resolve issues. Turn customer feedback and technical research into clearer requirements, test cases and practical guides.
Make expertise reusable
Started the internal “Words of Wisdom” documentation initiative to help new employees get up to speed and existing teammates refresh their knowledge. Authored an AI strategy proposal covering operations, product opportunities, knowledge capture and responsible adoption.
04 / HOW I USE AI
Go beyond the prompt.
Build the whole workflow.
I use AI to research, build, test and document. The real work is giving it the right context, useful tools and a reliable way to check the result.
I experiment across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT and Gemini. I use coding agents as part of a development process: scope the task, prepare the evidence, implement, inspect the changes, test and capture the lesson. Model output becomes useful when it can be traced to sources and checked against the accounting requirement.
Context→Tools→Evidence→Review
ACCOUNTING DATA × AIBuilt / experimental
Give assistants tools they can reason with.
Built an MCP integration exposing selected Draftworx Cloud functions, including client, trial-balance and practice summaries, to AI assistants. Designed structured tool interfaces and environment-based access controls.
The accounting value: an assistant can work with relevant ledger context through a defined interface, instead of relying on copied fragments and guesswork.
SUPPORT KNOWLEDGEBuilt / prototype
Make past solutions findable.
Built a support-retrieval tool that extracts Slack history through the API, structures conversations for search and uses OCR to recover error text from screenshots. Results point back to the original discussion and solution.
The accounting value: preserve the experience of support specialists and make confirmed solutions easier for the next person to find.
LLMS × FINANCIAL STATEMENTSBuilt / applied tooling
Translate the wording. Protect the logic.
Developed AI-assisted translation automation for financial-statement text, including English-to-Afrikaans workflows. The pipeline preserves named ranges and formula structure, with backups, resumable processing and logs.
The accounting value: automate a language task while keeping the controls that make a financial-reporting template work across different entities.
REVIEW & EVALUATIONPrototype / ongoing
Review what the accountant actually sees.
Developed a structured approach to AI-assisted review of financial-statement PDFs: grammar, singular and plural wording, entity context, placeholders and print layout. Distinguish master-template checks from checks on completed client financials.
The accounting value: a focused first pass can surface repetitive issues for a reviewer. A checklist and relevant entity context make the output easier to assess; professional sign-off stays with a person.
THE NEXT LAYER · CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Coordinate agents. Keep the evidence.
My recent experiments include programmatic coordination of coding-agent sessions, bounded work assignments, durable task state and recoverable handovers. A local coordination helper has passed live launch and dispatch checks; broader end-to-end acceptance is still in progress.
I’m also designing a template-edit workflow that separates file preparation, implementation, review and deployment, with explicit inputs, outputs, change evidence and human checkpoints. This is active experimental work, rather than a claim of fully autonomous production delivery.
“If I solve a problem twice, I want the third person to inherit a tool, a check or a clear explanation.”
That is how I aim to get more from AI: use it to remove repeat work, keep deterministic checks around sensitive changes, and turn each useful result into something the team can reuse.
05 / BEYOND THE DAY JOB
Small projects.
The same instinct to build.
Bill splitting
A web app for shared bills, partial payments and settling what each person owes. A practical exercise in turning a messy reconciliation into a clearer experience.
Visit the project ↗Crypto accounting pipeline
Capture and classify blockchain transactions, enrich them with pricing and produce traceable CSV ledgers for accounting review. A way to connect unfamiliar source data to an auditable output.
PRIVATE PROJECT · SUMMARY ONLYExpense analysis
Expense categorisation and analysis, supported by reproducible Python workflows, setup instructions and operating procedures.
PERSONAL BUILDLearning workflows
n8n workflows for transcript extraction, summarisation and knowledge capture. Build once, then spend more time applying what I learn.
AUTOMATION EXPERIMENTSTHE WORKING TOOLKIT
Accounting & reporting
IFRS · IFRS 17 · FRS 102 / 105 · ASPE template work · Consolidations · Audit methodology · Financial-statement preparation and review
Data & development
Excel · VBA · Python · SQL · Pandas · Power BI · APIs · JSON / CSV · Git / GitHub · n8n
Applied AI
Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · ChatGPT · Gemini · MCP integrations · Context design · OCR and retrieval · Checklist-based evaluation · Agent workflow experiments
Continuous development documented through my 2024 and 2025 SAICA CPD records, project documentation and practical builds.
06 / GET IN TOUCH
Let’s build better
accounting workflows.
I’m interested in teams bringing strong accounting practice and thoughtful AI together. I bring technical curiosity, professional judgment and the willingness to get into the detail.
spencerkyle14@gmail.com