Riley Yen

Consultant · KPMG Advisory

Riley
Yen.

I design AI systems that give finance teams real operating leverage — built for the work, not the demo.

Working at the intersection of strategy, product, and engineering — turning AI from a talking point into a functioning part of the org.

AI Finance Transformation Agentic Orchestration FP&A · Close · Audit Executive Alignment First-Principles Systems Rapid Prototyping AI Finance Transformation Agentic Orchestration FP&A · Close · Audit Executive Alignment First-Principles Systems Rapid Prototyping

What I Can Do

Four ways I turn AI into measurable outcomes.

Most AI work stalls between the pitch deck and production. My job is to close that gap — from framing the right problem to shipping a system people actually use.

01

Agentic Workflow Design

Orchestrate AI agents across month-end close, FP&A, and audit. Repetitive work becomes compounding capacity — while humans stay in the decisions that actually matter.

02

Stakeholder Alignment

Translate technical possibility into executive conviction. ROI frameworks, sharp narratives, and buy-in that survives contact with the steering committee.

03

Systems Thinking

Work from first principles. Map the real constraints — technical, organizational, regulatory — before picking the model, the tool, or the roadmap.

04

Idea to Prototype

Ship a working system in days, not quarters. Prove value before asking for budget — a functioning prototype beats a convincing slide every time.

How I Think

Three lenses I bring to every engagement.

The tools change. The frameworks change. What stays constant is how I orient — toward constraints, toward reversibility, toward the version of the answer that gets sharper with each pass.

Lens 01

First principles, not first solutions.

Every system has a shape. Constraints connect to outcomes connect to data connect to leverage — before you touch the tech, the graph tells you where the real work is.

"The model isn't the answer. The structure of the problem is."
Principle Network
Hover a node
Constraint Data Outcome Leverage Risk Trust
Start with Constraint — the rest of the graph follows from it.
Decision Topology
Hover a dot
REVERSIBILITY → IMPACT → SLOW DOWN MOVE NOW DECLINE SHIP & GO
Each dot is a real decision type — hover to see the play.
Lens 02

Most decisions are two-way doors.

Treating reversible choices like irreversible ones is the real cost — not the wrong call, the slow call. I sort decisions by reversibility and impact, then route them accordingly.

"Speed on two-way doors. Care on one-way doors. Most people flip the pair."
Lens 03

Clarity compounds.

The first draft is cheap. So is the fifth. The difference between them is everything. Each pass doesn't just polish — it reveals what the previous pass was actually about.

"Ideas don't arrive fully formed. They get sharpened in the loop."
Iteration Loop
Hover a pass
PASS 1 · RAW PASS 2 · FRAME PASS 3 · CUT PASS 4 · SHARPEN CLARITY
Each pass isn't polish — it's a change in what the work is about.