Eric Dumais, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

HomeStreet Bank is one of the largest community banks in the Northwest, California and Hawaii. HomeStreet offers a full range of financial services including commercial banking, commercial lending, consumer banking, mortgage lending, residential construction financing, commercial real estate financing and insurance services. During my time with this company, I managed the controls documentation around the adoption of ASC 842 - Leases and am working with credit management on the controls needed for implementation and ongoing compliance with ASU 2016-13 - Current Expected Credit Losses to ensure that risks are identified and mitigated. I have consulted with accounting and reporting leadership on risks and controls implications associated with the sale of a major operating segment, adoption of discontinued operations accounting, acquisition of a stand-alone bank branch, sales of approximately $14.4 billion in unpaid principal balance of mortgage servicing rights to two separate buyers, and discontinuing of segment reporting all within the first quarter of 2019. I designed and am implementing a streamlined internal controls environment that is risk-driven and not controls-driven while maintaining an effective control environment during a structural reorganization after the transactions noted above.

Tacoma, Wa

Columbia Bank is a full-service Northwest community bank headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, serving businesses, professionals, and individuals through more than 140 branches in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. We offer the sophisticated solutions and lending capacity of a regional bank, while retaining the commitment to customer satisfaction and community you expect when doing business with a local bank.During my time with this company, I have mentored several internal audit team members and assisted with orientation of new team members. My role is responsible for the end-to-end management of the Bank's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program on both the process and information technology sides. I am working with process owners and control performers to understand the risks that their controls are meant to mitigate in order to refine the control processes while also rebuilding the business relationships with this function. I have quickly become a strategic business partner with operations, risk management, and internal audit.

Seattle, Wa

Weyerhaeuser is a publically traded owner of approximately 13 million acres of privately managed timberlands in the United States and manages approximately 14 million acres of timberlands in Canada. Weyerhaeuser Timberlands operates as a REIT within the United States and has non-REIT subsidiaries in the wood products and cellulose fibers businesses that convert the timber from company owned and leased timberlands to products for the home building and countless other industries.During my time with this company, I developed multiple internal audit team members for transition into leadership roles within the business by identifying the necessary skillsets for the opportunities that they wanted and providing exposure and training to address any skills gaps. I led the transition project to convert the company from the 1992 COSO framework to the 2013 framework. As part of this project, I transitioned the control environment from a controls-centric model that focused primarily on controls to be executed to a risk-based model that focuses on the risks that require mitigation. I designed and implemented a high-level scoping model to guide audit testing to be performed and remediate gaps in the annual audit plan. As a result of this effort, I identified previously unrecognized risks and developed controls, in coordination with responsible management, to mitigate these risks to an acceptable level without impeding productivity. I also created a model to guide audit-project scoping (both process and IT) across all of the company’s businesses that details key and non-key controls that exist at each facility and corporate function to mitigate the risks specific to those locations. In conjunction with this effort, I identified and documented entity-level control processes and procedures performed by the company to address the specifics of the points of focus within the COSO 2013 Internal Control Framework..

Greater Seattle Area

Fisher Communications is a publically traded regional broadcaster that operates Radio, TV and Web Content in the Pacific Northwest,During my time with this company, I completely reworked the Company's Sarbanes-Oxley program using a top-down, risk-based approach. This resulted in a significant reduction in the number of key controls and also improved performance in the effective execution of these controls. I worked with process owners, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to ensure that the company identified the right controls and that all individuals were properly trained on their roles in executing their controls responsibilities. As a result of this effort, the Company achieved an 86% reduction in the number of identified deficiencies. This further resulted in a reduction in external audit fees related to their attestation of the effectiveness of internal controls.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

AutoNation is the United States' largest publically held automotive retailer and sells more new and used vehicles than any other company in the industry.During my time with AutoNation, I worked in numerous roles at the Corporate, Regional and Dealership levels of the organization. I was able to utilize this broad exposure to the different facets of the company to educate individuals and effectively solve problems that took into account not only the controls and compliance requirements of the business, but also helped to make the business run more efficiently and effectively. As a result, professional colleagues continued to reach out to me for several months after I transitioned away from the company in order to brainstorm solutions to problems that they were encountering.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Large public accounting firm primarily servicing mid-market clients.Worked on audit engagements of public, private and not-for-profit companies with a focus towards manufacturing and emerging technology industry clients.

Baac, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science, Finance