Candice Lam Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Palo Alto, Ca

San Francisco, Ca

San Francisco Bay Area

• Collaborate with business partners, including business unit finance professionals, legal, human resources, corporate development, to provide input on the structuring of transactions, complex partnerships, and other arrangements, including leases, restructuring, divestiture, joint ventures and VIEs• Research, evaluate, and document technical accounting and external reporting implications of complex and non-standard transactions as well as general corporate accounting matters• Hands-on experience with the preparation of SEC filings, including note disclosures for complex transactions, cash flow statement, MD&A and XBRL tagging• Maintain, update, and evaluate new accounting policies and provide cross-functional training as necessary• Ensure compliance with certain financial reporting SOX controls• Prepare quarterly audit committee meeting presentation for earnings release and approval of SEC quarterly filings

Canada

Assurance and Accounting Advisory ServicesTechnical Topics Team• Lead manager on audits of start-up companies to entities with asset base and revenues in excess of $2 billion• Assisted clients in fulfilling their financial reporting requirements, including consolidation, preparation of cash flow statements and drafting of note disclosures for complex transactions under US GAAP, IFRS and Canadian GAAP• Prepared and presented financial analyses, evaluation of key performance indicators, technical accounting analyses and audit findings to internal and external stakeholders • Selected to be a technical expert and part of the professional practice team in the Greater Vancouver Area (GVA) which spans over six offices• Chaired the local office Audit Quality Committee which included over fifteen assurance partners and managers, where accounting and auditing standard updates were discussed• Demonstrated superb technical accounting skills by researching and documenting accounting conclusions on complex issues; focus areas included business combinations, share-based payments, leases, revenue recognition and financial instruments; worked with a variety accounting frameworks including IFRS, US GAAP, Canadian GAAP • Delivered training and email communications on technical matters to offices within GVA regularly targeting all levels of assurance professionals • Selected to be on a 9-month international secondment to Atlanta, US where I was responsible for leading quarterly, annual audit and SOX 404 engagements for a public company client• Managed multiple teams simultaneously and was responsible for budget and project management• Responsible for staff development including long-term career planning, annual goals and performance assessments and developing performance improvement initiatives

Vancouver, Canada Area

Chartered Accountants

Qualified in June 2007

Bachelor Of Commerce (Honours), Accounting And Finance

• Top student of the graduating class with cumulative average of 92% • Winner of Kiwanis Club Gold Medal and several other academic prizes.