Colleen Lawson, Cpa Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Manage and lead multiple engagements, such as SiriusXM, Atlantic Power Corporation, SeatGeek Inc., Ghostery Inc., and Canary Connect Inc. while providing comprehensive guidance on how to account for complex financial transactions. •Execute the day-to-day activities of audit engagements of various clients, including Securities and Exchange Commission registrants. •Experience in writing technical memos over complicated accounting topics, such a classification of equity, warrants, and debt, in order to show a full analysis over accounting guidance considerations and the results of proper accounting treatment.•Experience leading jobs for technology startups. Helped educate non-public accountants in proper accounting treatment for various seed funding rounds, debt and warrant accounting, stock compensation expense calculations, and special revenue recognition rules.•Identify and communicate accounting and auditing matters to associates, managers, and partners.•Identify performance improvement opportunities to ensure the audit runs efficiently and effectively.•Interact with clients to help ensure the information flow from the client to the audit team is efficient.•Conduct holistic analyses of client business operations and financial data in order to efficiently plan for issues that may arise.

New York, Ny, Us

Took ownership of specific accounting areas such as revenue, equity, debt, partnership revenue, and fixed assets, and completed testwork from the planning stages to completion.•Gathered and compiled audit evidence, noted areas of improvement and potential financial statement risks.•Involved in complex engagements, such as first year-audits and business combinations, from initiation to close.•Experience in creating deferred rent schedules through thorough review of complex lease agreements.•Experience in running reports with queries from client accounting systems, such as Intacct and Blackline.•Coached, mentored, and led junior associates in performing testwork over complex accounting areas, such as debt, financial statement footnotes, and equity. Demonstrated ability to discuss accounting matters in a way that are easy to understand.

New York, Ny, Us

Had the opportunity to have an integral role on a public engagement filing a 10-Q, and helped prepare the financial statement tie out at an early stage in my career. •Experience performing quarter end reconciliations in cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, and •Assisted in planning and testing internal controls, and created flowcharts to assist in visualizing the processes.•Attended meetings and spoke directly with clients to address issues that arose. •Prepared efficient work papers that assisted co-workers, while also learning more about the language and basic elements of an audit.