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Oversaw financial operations, managed budgets, ensured regulatory compliance, and provided strategic financial guidance to support the company's growth.• Streamlined payroll processes by automating GL reports from Paylocity to Netsuite, resulting in increased efficiency and accuracy.• Spearheaded the implementation of Planning Maestro to facilitate seamless creation and management of multiple budget scenarios, contributing to improved financial planning and forecasting.• Developed a comprehensive Month End close checklist and introduced Floqast for tracking sign-offs on reconciliations, reducing the close timeline from 15 days to 7 days.• Collaborated with the VP of Operations and Director of Purchasing to successfully implement COUPA, enhancing expense tracking accuracy by updating data structures in Netsuite.• Ensured compliance by meticulously preparing and submitting quarterly and annual filings to local, state, and federal agencies.• Orchestrated the annual audit with the Deloitte team, efficiently assigning and managing accounting team requests to ensure timely completion.

Greater San Diego Area

Handled financial operations, managed budgets, ensured regulatory compliance, and provided strategic financial guidance to support the company's mission of developing and delivering innovative RNA medicines.• Completed monthly bank reconciliations for all bank accounts and general ledger accounts. • Improved record keeping by keeping a virtual copy of all receipts and invoices; worked with purchasing to keep all shipping documentation for proof of receipt to provide backup to future audits. • Tracked time for all scientists through Accountsight, Paylocity, and ADP for FTE revenue recognition. • Managed the AP team (2 direct reports) and worked with all departments to ensure accurate accruals at quarter end. • Worked with the VP of Finance to create and implement internal SOX controls for the company in SOX 404b since 2019. • Involved in implanting, maintaining, and reporting on 60% of SOX controls within the company. • SOX control review for all pay changes prior to payroll submission from the HR & Payroll manager. • Reviewed all stock option exercises and handled all year end reporting onto the relevant W-2 or 1099 forms. • Prepared for the Audit with Ernst & Young by completing search for unrecorded liabilities, bank confirmations, year-end GL reconciliations, fixed asset report, and physical tagging of all fixed assets. • Key player for implementation of Sage Intacct, eRequester, Coupa, Concur, Paylocity, ADP, and Quickbooks.

Managed financial operations, including cash flow analysis, financial reporting, payroll processing, tax compliance, budgeting, ERP transition, and process improvements, to support the company's financial stability, growth, and regulatory requirements.• Created weekly cash flow analysis to analyze weekly collections and to manage outgoing payments. • Developed monthly job profitability reports to analyze margins on customers. • Processed payroll for both US employees and UK employees on a monthly basis. • Executed quarterly and yearly VAT reports for the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, and Belgium and submitted reports to the respective tax authorities. • Worked closely with the VP of Finance and the external auditors related to the company’s yearly financial review, yearly tax return, and state unemployment audit. • Produced expense analysis of previous years and utilized data to work with department heads to create a budget for 2016.• Interfaced with and assisted outsourced ERP consultants with company-wide transition from QuickBooks to NetSuite. • Registered the company for Spain VAT by incorporating documents received from both the State and Federal government and submitting this information to the Spanish Tax Authorities. • Implemented process improvements to reduce the month end close from 20 business days to 5 business days.