← Ana Lu

Skills & tech stack

No self-rated bars. Each skill comes with where I've used it.

3.5 years, owned end to end

Full-suite financial accountant

  • Accounts receivable
  • Month-end close
  • Reconciliations
  • Financial reporting
  • Management reports
  • Cashflow management & reporting
  • P&L, balance sheet & cash flow statement
  • Statutory reporting (AASB / IFRS)
  • External audits
  • Multi-entity accounting
  • Government reporting
  • Payroll
  • BAS & payroll tax
  • Statutory obligations

Formal qualifications, including CA ANZ, are on Education & training →

My hobbies include designing an ERP, HRT Systems →

Finance & reporting

  • AASB statutory reporting

    Statutory reporting for a $500m+ scheme

  • Statutory compliance

    Kept a regulated scheme audit-ready

  • Month-end close & reconciliations

    Automated bank matching: 4 h a day to about 1 h

  • Audit support

    Cut audit samples from 60 to 2

  • Business cases

    Built the $50K ERP upgrade case

ERP implementation

  • Oracle Fusion ERP

    • Configured the Collections module myself: delinquency tracking, promise-to-pay and collector notes
    • FBDI bulk loads: manual journals, customer uploads and mass updates
    • Bank statement auto-match set-up (4 h a day to about 1 h)
    • Oracle BI report training

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

    7 Microsoft Learn badges: GL, AP/AR, fixed assets, budgeting

    See proof →

  • NetSuite

    Led the implementation end to end, with minimal partner help (reference on request)

  • Xero

    Implemented for a production company

  • MYOB

    Implemented, plus MYOB Essentials certificate

  • Unleashed & DEAR Systems (now Cin7 Core)

    Inventory system migrations

Data & BI

  • Power BI & DAX

    Formal training with Nexacu

  • Excel, expert level

    Formal training with Nexacu

  • Power Query

    Repeatable data clean-up instead of manual fixes

  • SQL

    Extracting and reconciling ERP data

Automation & code

  • Python

    Financial modelling and automation scripts

  • React

    Custom reporting tools, and this site

  • Agentic AI

    AI agents that do the menial work

  • Docker

    Self-hosting open-source tools

  • Nocobase & Frappe

    Custom reporting apps on open-source platforms

  • WordPress, Joomla, Drupal & Payload CMS

    Built cleanuppartners.com.au (WordPress) and this website (Next.js)

Software engineering

  • Spec-first development

    • Full SDLC docs before code: requirements, architecture, data schema, security, API and UI/UX
    • Coding standards, development workflow and deployment guides
    See proof →

  • Database design (PostgreSQL)

    Multi-tenant ERP schema with dimensional chart of accounts

  • Containers & deployment

    Dockerised Next.js builds

  • Object-oriented programming

    Java, C#, C++ and Ruby: formal study at AUT, plus hobby projects

AI & dev tools

  • Claude Code

    Agentic coding across full projects

  • Antigravity IDE & VS Code

    Day-to-day development environments

  • Google AI Studio

    Prototyping with Gemini models

  • Perplexity

    Sourced research

Systems & architecture

  • Data & app architecture

    Bridging finance and IT on ERP projects

  • Systems analysis

    Systems Analyst at ITPLUS, 2015 to 2019

  • Process redesign

    Root cause first, then automate

IT infrastructure

  • Networking

    Surveillance and network installs at ITPLUS

  • Server builds & configuration

    Built and configured servers for customers

  • Firmware coding

    Wrote firmware for hardware products

Documentation & training

  • Technical manuals

    Written for IT products and systems

  • Policies & procedures

    Finance and IT processes, written down so they last

  • Training in IT & finance

    Teaching teams the systems and the accounting behind them