Youcef Mesli
CPA · Agentic AI · Enterprise Finance
CPA · Business Architecture Manager Montréal · English / French

Finance should own its own intelligence.

CPA turned SAP consultant turned AI builder. Over 15 years across finance and enterprise systems, including external audit and compliance work. Now applied to agents and tools that solve real problems.

Perspective

Started as a CPA, financial analyst and external auditor, before moving into SAP. IT, data, and automation were part of the work from early on.

Over 15 years across finance and transformation since. Multiple full-cycle S/4HANA implementations across aviation, mining, pharma, and public sector, plus multiple AMS and sustainment engagements keeping those systems running after go-live.

Same instinct now, aimed at a different layer.

Approach

The technology changes. The approach doesn’t.

Client-centric
Start with the business problem, not the technology.
Solution-oriented
Solve for the outcome, then choose the right tools to get there.
Cost discipline
Design for efficiency and economics from the start.
Responsible AI
Confidence thresholds decide what proceeds, what gets reviewed, and what stops.
Backend-agnostic
The intelligence layer belongs to the business, not to the ERP vendor.
Selected work

Nine assets. Six are agentic AI systems built for enterprise finance. Three are working tools built with AI to solve problems that showed up on real engagements. Pick any one for the full story.

Agentic AI systems

Six systems, built end to end

Built with AI

Three · specification to tested, working tool
Knowing what the business needs, and having AI as a tool to build with, means one person can now own a lot more of the outcome, end to end.
On what these nine builds have in common
Foundation

What sits underneath the AI work: a finance background, deep SAP experience, and now the ability to build on top of both.

Finance

Financial analysis, audit, and compliance work, carried into everything since.
  • Chartered Professional Accountant
  • Financial analysis
  • External audit
  • Financial close and reporting
  • Bilingual, English and French

SAP and data

Functional depth, plus the data layer, owned end to end.
  • Multiple full-cycle S/4HANA implementations
  • Multiple AMS and sustainment engagements
  • SAP FICO and Record-to-Report, including ATR and PTR streams
  • Project System
  • FICA / FSCD
  • Migration Cockpit, LTMOM, and LSMW
  • Custom migration templates

AI architecture

Where business architecture meets automation architecture.
  • Responsible AI and governance
  • Cost-conscious by design, managing tokenomics, the cost of every AI call, to keep systems affordable at scale
  • Multi-agent systems, several AI agents working together
  • Designing how agents hand off work to each other
  • Connecting agents to outside data and tools
  • Giving agents access to reference material to improve accuracy (RAG)
  • Curating reference material and designing the grounding strategy
  • Confidence scoring, so uncertain results get flagged instead of trusted blindly
  • Connecting AI tools to ERP systems and other software

Let's talk.

Open to conversations about finance transformation, SAP delivery, or building AI tools that solve real problems.

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Currently
  • Business Architecture ManagerEnterprise SAP delivery
  • Technical Product ManagerMajor airline S/4HANA program
  • SAP Joule for Consultants leadPractitioner enablement
  • Finance tower leadAccenture ATC, Montréal