Project Clients & Past Employers

• UTi Worldwide, Inc. - ($4.5B publicly listed supply chain services and solutions company)
• WFS Financial - ($4.2B publicly listed financial services company)
• First Community Bancorp - ($265.1M publicly listed community bank)
• PacWest Bancorp (Formerly First Community Bancorp) - ($157.9M publicly listed community bank)
• Kinecta Federal Credit Union - ($86.1M federal credit union)
• Deloitte & Touche LLP - (Clients included: Hansen Natural Corporation, Boeing, Rockwell International, Pacific Life Insurance Company)

Functional Finance & Accounting Experience

Financial Reporting & General Accounting
• Supervisory and hands-on experience in accounting, including period end closing, G/L reconciliation, account analysis, and consolidation accounting.
• Directed and participated in month-end and year-end closing processes, assuring the timeliness and accuracy of data including reconciling accounts and preparing journal entries.
• Prepared SEC Forms 10K and 10Q, including complete footnote disclosures and MD&A with relevant support, in auditable form. Prepared and reviewed company's quarterly earnings release, analyst script and annual report.
• Prepared regulatory filings for the Federal Reserve Board, National Credit Union Administration, and other regulatory agencies.
• Provided reports for quarterly earning conference calls including quarterly and annual guidance, actuals reporting and other analysis for senior management.
• Prepared ad-hoc financial analyses and internal management reports for executives, C-Level management, and Boards of Directors including forecasts and general ledger analysis.
• Improved supporting documentation for financial reporting department; standardized quarterly internal reporting documentation and prepared detailed, tied out supporting schedules to facilitate research and audit support.
• Streamlined month end closing process and issuance of month end financials from 5 days to 3 days by reorganizing tasks, preparing steps prior to month end where appropriate, communicating standardized closing instructions across the organization, conducting preliminary trial balance reviews to identify potential issues, and establishing systematic journal entry templates to reduce manual data entry.
• Prepared reconciliations for GL accounts identified as key and high risk. Brought accounts up to date that had not previously been reconciled, created written account reconciliation desktop procedures and trained staff.
• Coordinated internal and external auditor requests and provided information needed on a timely basis; liaised between non-financial departments and auditors to ensure integrity and accuracy of provided schedules and researched and resolved audit-related issues.
• Assisted in the implementation of SFAS 91 - Accounting for Nonrefundable Fees and Costs Associated with Originating or Acquiring Loans and Initial Direct Costs of Leases, including identifying the fees/costs eligible for deferral, setting up a monthly process for deferral, and creating process documentation.
• Created analyses and graphical presentations to highlight operational activity and to analyze budget vs. actual activity.
• In support of an acquisition, created purchase accounting support binder, covering the acquiree's general ledger with schedules supporting the acquired balances. Prepared fair market value adjustments with supporting schedules and new general ledger balances.

Financial Audit, Internal Controls & Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
• External audit background in manufacturing, insurance, and financial services.
• Performed internal controls testing and documentation, reviewed policies and procedures for various business cycles, conducted management interviews and updated narratives including fraud assessments.
• Managed scope analysis, risk assessment, identification of significant financial statement accounts and key processes.
• Generated SOX narratives and flowcharts for the following sub processes:
  • Journal entry processing/closing/consolidation
  • Intercompany Eliminations
  • Financial Statement Disclosures, both SEC and Bank regulatory reporting
• Updated SOX policies and procedures related to controls over financial reporting.
• Researched the new FASB Accounting Standards Codification and prepared a memo detailing the particulars of the Codification and process of converting old GAAP references in documents to the new Codification references.
• Updated documentation related to Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Investments made by the bank.
• Interviewed key personnel and performed walkthroughs of internal control procedures.
• Assisted Internal Audit staff with internal control testing and documentation for the following processes:
  • Accounts Receivable Collectability
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Financial Statement Reporting
  • Chart of Accounts and Account Mapping
  • Capital Expenditures
  • Financial Agreements Contracts and Commitments Review

Systems Expertise: Selected Detail

Microsoft Excel
• Proficient Level Excel User including graphing presentations (charts, trend lines, axis scales, multiple charts), conditional formatting, filter (auto filter, advanced filter), data consolidation, subtotal, usage of analytical tools defining scenario and tracing dependents, financial functions (PMT, FV, PV, NPV, RATE, and IRR), logical and nested functions (IF, AND, OR, and NOT functions in formulas), string, date, and time functions, statistical functions (MIN, MAX, MEDIAN), worksheet sharing and protection, and customization of toolbars.

Microsoft PowerPoint
• Proficient Level PowerPoint User including creating slide masters, working with templates and layouts, inserting objects (pictures, symbols, charts), creating graphs and organization charts, working with embedded and/or linked objects, slide transition, creating and running slide shows.

Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase, & Analyzer
• Basic usage of Enterprise, including database inquiries, report generation, exports to Excel, and organization structure.
• Assisted with report creation phase of a Hyperion implementation.

Other
• Working experience with the following packages, Symitar, PeopleSoft Financials, and Fiserv, including database queries, report generation and data management.

Education & Credentials

• University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A. in Business Economics with Emphasis in Accounting
• CPA, California

Continuing Professional Education

• Completed annual CPA requirements (80 hrs/ every 2 yrs of CPE)
• Completed 16 hours of International Financial Reporting Standards Training (IFRS) - 2008

Languages

• Fluent in Spanish, written and spoken