PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Well rounded work experience in public and private accounting industry, corporate finance and risk management.
• Strong analytical skills in how complex business transactions affect corporate finance and the bottom line.
• Solid knowledge of GAAP and regulatory compliance reporting.
• Expertise in cost accounting based on CMA certification and work experience at manufacturing companies.
• Initiative to start research, document the findings and reach a conclusion.
• Effective adviser to senior executives by providing expert analysis.
• Experience in training subordinates and delegating responsibilities.
• Advanced User of Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, ERP Software such as Navision, JobBOSS,Yardi & Xero.
• Expertise in creating a process to streamline month - end close, to prepare financial reports and to analyze operations.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Financial Controller, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Consolidated and prepared financial statements of US and foreign entities for internal and investor reporting requirements.
• Provided investors with answers to questions on the financial statements.
• Updated and revised the chart of accounts and re-coded past transactions to make sure financial statements can be compared and analyzed in a consistent and logical manner.
• Overhauled the sales forecast and budgets for 2018, with emphasis on payroll for headcount and IT expenses for capital expenditure. Worked with department heads to revise and finalize budgets.
• Capitalized internally developed software by allocating IT expenses to software projects and amortize these fixed assets in accordance with GAAP.
• Prepared & presented weekly sales data to an executive team for discussion and analysis at a meeting.
• Resolved sales tax issues with Washington State and Canada by researching compliance requirements, collecting sales data and e-filing sale tax returns with appropriate revenue agencies.
• Trained new accounting staff to ensure that month-end close and reporting requirements are met.

Confidential

Director of Finance, Foster City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Summarized and prepared Confidential ’s Global Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators ( Confidential ) for Corporate Risk Committee, Audit Risk Committee and Board meetings.
• Worked with regional credit risk departments in Miami, Singapore, London, Dubai and Moscow to collect and compile regional data into a global reporting platform. The platform was used to report Collateral Action, Watch and Waivers, Client Failures and Loss Given Default on a global basis.
• Responsible for maintaining and improving the global risk exposure calculation model to keep track of Confidential clients’ risk exposures and collateral on a monthly basis. Regional hubs and senior managers used the model to understand and mitigate clients’ risk exposures and collateral shortfalls.
• Calculated and reviewed Confidential Settlement Guaranty valuations to make sure that disclosure requirements were met for 10Qs and 10Ks reporting on a timely basis with proper documentation.

Confidential

Vice President / Controller, Foster City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Prepared monthly income statements by consolidating four corporate subsidiaries into a holding company and had the responsibility for all aspects of month-end close, budgeting and forecasting.
• Conducted an internal Anti-Money Laundering (AML) audit of a business unit by creating and preparing audit work papers with detailed referencing to comply with regulatory requirements.
• Worked with outside auditors to ensure that audited financial statements with disclosure notes are prepared in a timely and accurate manner for shareholders, investors and regulatory agencies.
• Made sure regulatory compliance reporting requirements are met on a timely and accurate basis: sales tax returns, FINRA regulatory reporting, property tax returns and 1099s.
• Implemented a successful upgrade to new accounting ERP software by setting up a new chart of accounts, transferring and reconciling existing data and testing new processes and reporting tools.
• Managed and supervised an accounting manager and a staff accountant.

Confidential

Interim Controller, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the CFO to analyze commissions, expense reports and outside vendor contracts and explained any variances and trends in cost and profitability.
• Streamlined reporting processes for account reconciliations, lease amortization and fixed asset schedules to shorten time for month-end close and create proper work-paper support.
• Prepared a valuation report on a possible M&A target company by analyzing the company’s book of business, discounted cash flows, comparable sales, competitor analysis and market research.

Confidential

Director of Finance, Foster City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented enhancements to Confidential ’s proprietary financial model to assign correct credit risk ratings on banking clients and perform detailed financial analysis to support the ratings for risk mitigation.
• Communicated with client bank CEOs and CFOs about their weak financial ratings and collateral requirements in writing and on phone. Worked successfully with clients to pledge collateral and provided documentation requirements to mitigate risk exposures on a timely and proper manner.

Confidential

Finance Manager, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created dashboard reports to summarize monthly loan production activities by region and product and compared them against the quarterly/yearly targets for senior management review.
• Worked with sales, credit and marketing departments to analyze the process flow of loan origination and allocated direct and indirect costs to loan processing activities from different sales channels.
• Supervised a team of two senior financial analysts.

Confidential

Senior Financial Analyst, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed a $100+billion fixed income portfolio by analyzing price and volume variance reports.