Chartered Accountant · GAICD · Canberra
Purav Mehta
I run governance and reporting across a 55-project ICT portfolio in the Australian Public Service, and build the Power Platform and AI tooling behind it.
Previously finance manager, internal auditor and SAP business analyst.
Right now
What's on my desk this year.
Rebuilding portfolio reporting
Moving monthly project reporting off manual spreadsheets and onto Planner, Power Automate, SharePoint and Power BI, so status updates flow in rather than get chased.
Refreshing a project framework
Leading the 2026 refresh of a project management framework: keeping the governance that works, cutting the paperwork that doesn't.
Teaching AI to a team
A weekly session with my PMO colleagues on using AI tools safely in real work. Short, practical, no hype.
Building in the open
The AI assistant on this site that answers questions about my career, with the code and guardrails on GitHub.
Work
What I work on.
Most of it comes back to one question: can the people making the decision trust the number in front of them, and did it take someone a week of spreadsheets to produce it?
Portfolio governance
Committee papers, project frameworks and status reporting that tell executives what's actually on track, and what isn't.
Governance work AIAutomation and AI assistants
Workflows in n8n and Power Platform, and assistants built on Claude, with a person approving anything that matters. The AI on this site is one of them.
AI buildsTry it
Interview my AI instead of reading my CV.
Ask it about my experience in governance, audit, finance and AI. It answers from my real career history, and it will tell you when it doesn't know.
Writing
Thinking out loud.
AI Governance Best Practices
What boards and executives should actually ask before AI touches their numbers.
Read ResilienceThe Kapooka Days
Army recruit training, a stutter and what it taught me about not quitting.
Read All postsMore writing
Finance, risk, data, AI, governance and the mindset behind the work.
All articles
Resilience & mindset
The Beiz Way of thinking.
I grew up stuttering. I was bullied. I'm in the room anyway.
I was told, not always in words, that people like me don't end up in rooms like this. This part of the site is for everyone who's been underestimated. Who's fighting something invisible. The stutter. The accent. The anxiety. Whatever makes you feel like you're running the race with a weighted vest on.
Life is not a fairytale. But things can get better if you want to make them better. The Beiz Way isn't about being the loudest in the room. It's about still being in the room when everyone else has left.