Ajad van WykFinance systems & RegTech

About / Cape Town

I work where money, rules, and systems meet.

A Financial Controller, LLB candidate, and self-taught software builder. Three disciplines shaped by one question: how can the work be made clearer and more dependable?

Based
Cape Town, South Africa
Current
Financial Controller · Forbatt SA
Studying
LLB · University of South Africa

The path was not planned. The through-line is.

I joined Forbatt SA close to its day-to-day operations, moved into finance, and eventually took responsibility for the finance function.

That progression taught me that reliable financial work is rarely about a spreadsheet alone. It depends on clean records, understandable controls, careful judgment, and systems that make the right action easier to take.

I began building software for the same reason I began studying law: both expose the assumptions underneath a process. My projects now explore portfolio risk, lending operations, reporting, and compliance, areas where domain knowledge changes what good software looks like.

Working method

Three lenses on the same problem.

Finance supplies the reality, law sets the boundaries, and software makes the result executable.

  1. 01

    Finance

    What must reconcile.

    Reporting, controls, close, budgeting, audit readiness, and the operational judgment behind reliable numbers.

  2. 02

    Law

    What must be defensible.

    Legal reasoning adds the regulatory context: how a rule is interpreted, evidenced, governed, and challenged.

  3. 03

    Software

    What can become repeatable.

    Code turns recurring analysis and control work into clear systems that are easier to use, inspect, and improve.

Career path

Built through the operation.

Full experience
  1. 2017

    Executive assistant

    Learned the operation from the inside.

  2. 2019

    Moved into finance

    Built fluency in the records and controls.

  3. 2022–now

    Financial Controller

    Lead the finance function and a team of five.

What comes next

Finance systems and RegTech, where judgment and execution belong together.