Malachi (Kai) Pride

Profile

Applied AI builder and finance operations professional who turns complex business processes into structured workflows, reliable reporting and practical automation. Combines international billing, credit and reconciliation experience with advanced SQL, Snowflake, Power BI modelling and Python. Builds specialist agents, dashboards and reviewable artifacts with clear source requirements, exception handling and human approval controls.

Core capabilities

• Agentic workflows: discovery and scoping, specialist responsibilities, structured instructions, context reuse, routing, validation, exception handling and technical handovers.
• Data and analytics: advanced SQL, Snowflake, Power BI modelling, Python, financial analysis, source reconciliation and operational dashboards.
• Finance transformation: global receivables, contract-aligned billing, credit risk, cash-flow priorities, multi-currency reconciliation and control design.

Recent experience

Independent AI Builder

Applied AI workflows and portfolio development | January 2026 - present

• Develops applied AI workflows, evaluation frameworks and portfolio case studies, connecting business requirements with structured instructions, test scenarios and operational handovers.

Deel

Accounts Receivable Specialist I | 2026

• Resolved international billing and receivables exceptions through source-system reconciliation, contractual checks and coordination with Finance, Billing and technical teams.
• Built and used ATHOS, PORTHOS and ARAMIS on AKAI for investigation, routing and approval preparation; separated financial decisions from automated assistance.
• Adapted an urgent billing workflow covering approximately US$1.4 million in invoice value, with duplicate checks, exception review and documented operator handoffs.
• Built operational AR and approval dashboards with ageing, ownership and drill-down views; refined reporting in response to stakeholder feedback.

Finance and commercial experience

Omnipresent Group

Interim Accounts Receivable Manager | September 2024 - February 2026

• Led two international AR teams with four direct and three indirect reports. Coordinated billing, collections, reconciliations and escalations across multi-country employment services, working with global stakeholders and improving operating procedures.

Champion Petfoods

Credit Manager | June 2023 - August 2024

• Led a four-person global credit and AR team across Canada, the US, EMEA, APAC and Latin America; oversaw portfolio risk, customer deductions, payment disputes and cash-collection priorities.
• Used advanced SQL, Snowflake, Power BI modelling and Python for financial analysis and operational reporting; supported more consistent credit decisions and management insight.

Katch Kan Ltd

Accountant | November 2022 - May 2023

• Supported accounting, month-end reporting, reconciliations and variance investigation, tracing differences to source documentation.

Dun & Bradstreet

Credit Manager / Senior Finance Analyst | 2022

• Delivered credit-risk analysis, budget and forecast variance interpretation, KPI reporting and management insights using advanced SQL, Snowflake, Power BI modelling and Python.

Meta

Finance Analyst contract | March 2021 - January 2023

• Supported EMEA Network Investment Managers on colocation space, power and redundancy across more than 100 sites. Reconciled finance records against contracts with network engineers, using ULTRON and Buy@; clarified requirements and coordinated validation of system fixes with Engineering, Finance and Procurement.

The Telegraph

Accounts Receivable Executive contract | October 2020

• Supported international agency accounts, collections, multi-currency reconciliations, settlement terms and audit requirements.

Endemol Shine International

Credit Controller then Credit Manager from June 2016 | October 2015 - June 2020

• Led international billing and receivables, reconciliations, provisions, contractual billing issues and cash-flow forecasts; coordinated a team of up to five.

Earlier experience: BBC Worldwide, GSK, DataCenterDynamics and Immediate Media in finance, billing, credit and reconciliation.

Education and systems

BA (Hons) Business Management with Accounting, First Class Honours | University of West London | 2016

Advanced SQL • Snowflake • Power BI modelling • Python • Excel • Salesforce • NetSuite • Infor M3 • AKAI • Jira • Slack

Selected automation and analytics case studies

Anonymised examples connecting business discovery, workflow design, operational delivery and evidence-led improvement.

01 Specialist agents for financial operations

Investigation, routing and approval preparation | Built and used

Built ATHOS to investigate billing issues, PORTHOS to route work to the right owner, and ARAMIS to prepare approval requests. Defined source checks, decision boundaries, exception paths and handoff requirements. Reused available context and invoked additional agents only when needed. Kept formal approval with authorised reviewers rather than treating an agent recommendation as permission to act.

02 Operational dashboards and reviewable artifacts

AR backlog and approval reporting | Delivered

Built dashboards showing ageing work, ownership and approval queues, with refreshed data, assignee filters and drill-down views. Refined reporting through stakeholder feedback and documented freshness and read-only boundaries. Produced process maps, workflow specifications and technical handovers so reviewers could follow the evidence behind an exception and identify the next action.

03 Monthly billing reconciliation

Multi-currency reconciliation workflow | Designed

Designed a recurring reconciliation workflow linking billing records and payment statements. Separated intake and source checks, deterministic calculations, exception classification and finance review. Addressed foreign-exchange differences, charge classification and missed-fee risks. Structured the output as a reviewable calculation and exception package with clear approval boundaries.

04 Cost and reliability evaluation

Self-service AI audit framework | Designed

Defined an evaluation framework for cycle time, cost per successful outcome, first-pass success and unplanned human intervention. Specified matched test cases, source-linked findings, failure and retry tracking, and regression checks. Kept charged costs separate from estimates and human review effort separate from model runtime; distinguished intended approval steps from unexpected manual recovery.

Delivery approach

Understand the business problem and current process; map authoritative sources and ownership; draft the workflow and acceptance criteria; build a focused solution; test normal and exception paths; document the result and improve it using operational feedback.

Portfolio and supporting case studies