Jacob Curtis Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book any car you want, wherever you want it, from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, Canada, France, Australia and the UK. Whether you’re flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, guests can take the wheel of the perfect car for any occasion, while hosts can take the wheel of their futures by building an accessible, flexible, and scalable car sharing business from the ground up.

San Francisco, California, Us

I generated integral cost of goods sold components used by our executive team to relay our progress with company stakeholders and to forecast our future success. I held two crucial roles as the Sr. Cost Assurance Manager and Sr. AP Manager in facilitating our month-end close process so that we could communicate our growth and passion for healthy meals in a timely manner.• Calculated and posted ~15 month-end cost accounting accrual journal entries.• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to ensure accurate cost accounting accruals.• Reconciled cost accounts activity totaling ~$8.5M per month to ensure accuracy.• Supported the Inventory Teams in reconciling month-end inventory balances totaling ~$8.3M per month• Audited and approved ~200 COGS vendor invoices weekly.• Liaised with department managers to receive and post completed credit card statements.• Contributed to the development, implementation, and maintenance of cost accounting systems, procedures, and policies to ensure adherence to company guidelines.• Wrote detailed policies and procedures based on discussions with the V.P. Corporate Controller and team.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Managed a remote team of two AP Processors who book ~1,300 invoices per month.• Strategically executed ~$20M in Aged AP payments based on vendor timelines and cash-on-hand constraints.• Liased with ~330 vendors each month on payment expectations and billing discrepancies.• Audited and approved ~100 G&A vendor invoices weekly.• Wrote detailed policies and procedures based on discussions with the V.P. Corporate Controller and team.

San Francisco, California, Us

Refer to Senior Cost Assurance Manager tasks above.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Facilitated our team’s initiative to reduce our month-end close timeframe from 20+ to 5 days.• Built the framework to identify and fix hundreds of potential inventory count and cost issues worth millions of dollars during each month-end close.• Produced cost performance metrics used by the leadership team to measure and track quarterly goals.• Created and posted journal entries and reconciled general ledger accounts to ensure accurate financial reporting.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I was charged with curating Google Express’ transportation costs component of our historic operational costs and provided it in tools and forums to convey actionable financial analytics. Our reporting was at the forefront of our daily activities in order to meet recurring weekly deadlines to discuss cost trends with our business partners. Our team was also charged with determining the metrics by which our business partners graded progress on their cost-saving initiatives each quarter. These metrics, compounded with our weekly business partnerships to review them, drove the fast-paced operational changes needed to deliver our customers more convenience.• Co-hosted weekly transportation operations costs business partnerships to review how operational adjustments made by the Transportation Operations (Trans Ops) Team impacted weekly cost trends and discussed how other transportation cost-saving initiatives could be implemented.• Ensured costs and volume data was available in formats necessary to create various cost & metric views by carrier which provided better insight into changing cost trends and made grading cost-saving initiatives easier.• Collaborated with the Trans Ops Team to produce a dashboard displaying relevant transportation-related metrics that they leveraged during the weekly operational costs discussions with our business partnerships.• Developed the framework necessary to move from converting EDI invoicing data using spreadsheets and instead built and utilized a scalable dashboard based on SQL scripts. These changes reduced data processing from 25 hours to 5 minutes per week and also provided more in-depth auditing and metric views than were previously available.• Managed the process to report costs via purchase order accruals that have not yet been captured in Corporate Finance’s books using data available from weekly cost reporting.• Administered the purchase orders needed to pay our carriers for their delivery services.

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• Subject matter expert on SOPs for 12 national banks and debt purchasers• Acted as the liaison to clients for audits and compliance purposes• Facilitated over 20 audits conducted by clients including gathering and organizing deliverables• Collaborated with all departments to compose and maintain internal policies and procedures• Conducted routine internal audits and reported findings to appropriate parties to mitigate risk• Utilized reporting mechanisms to monitor exception and outlier activity• Proposed corrective action plans when audit findings occurred to inhibit recurrence• Worked with all levels of all departments to implement corrective action plans• Created and regulated over 30 training program modules for the firm’s 145 employees

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• Generated over 100 inventory placement and goal reports for the Vice President of Collections• Produced weekly account and inventory information reports for managers• Created daily and weekly account activity reports for support staff• Graphed and charted mined account data• Generated and configured on-demand reports

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• Collaborated with managers to create & upload over 250 merge-able documents to the database• Self-taught basic coding using nested “if, then” statements to minimize document redundancy• Surveyed department staff to assess and document their roles and determine best practices• Assessed effectiveness of programs and reported them to the Vice President of Collections

• Prepared and instituted a $7.1M budget for the 2010-2011 academic year for over 28,000 students• Chaired the Associated Students Inc. Finance Committee• Coordinated proposals for financial policy changes as a result of the recession• Analyzed and prepared budget assumptions with eight department managers• Collaborated with the university’s VP of Finance and VP of Student Affairs on fiscal policy

• Managed over 100,000 client accounts from national banks and debt purchasers• Created best practices for various procedures throughout the firm• Continuously operated a database to retain the status of client accounts• Collaborated with attorneys on appropriate verbiage and legality of documents• Created and prepared legal documents to be filed in California's Superior Courts• Communicated with Court Clerks about the status of legal documents

• Managed the Painting Division• Created and implemented best practices for the Management Team• Communicated with a lumber supplier to facilitate orders• Interfaced on a regular basis with customers and end-users to exceed their expectations