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Los Angeles, California, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Provide accounting and transaction advisory services to clients, specializing in technical accounting, research, and implementation. • Assist clients with wide range of complex technical accounting, financial reporting, and operational accounting issues, including variable interest entity analysis, business combination, stock-based compensation, preferred stock, revenue recognition, drafting of financial disclosures, implementation of new accounting standards, preparation and review of clean account reconciliations, improvement of close and audit processes, and other complex accounting topics, through preparation of technical accounting memos outlining the appropriate accounting treatment for these topics as well as creation of other deliverables for clients and their auditors.• Manage team of seniors and related deliverable workstreams while serving as the primary client contact to execute accounting advisory projects.• Lead internal and external meetings with the client, communicating project status and budget as well as discussing findings and deliverables• Drive implementation process of ASC 606 and ASC 842 guidance for numerous clients, including drafting of accounting policy memos for the client and their auditors as well as preparing or reviewing lease schedules and embedded lease assessments.• Execute multiple client projects concurrently related to complex accounting issues, serving both public and non-public business entities.

Worldwide, Oo

•Acquired an in-depth understanding of financial statements and GAAP.•Gained knowledge of essential business functions in various industries, including real estate, consumer business, manufacturing, and not-for-profit, both public and private.•Managed staff of three, while tracking and reporting engagement status to the team manager.•Lead first year audit, assessing engagement risk to develop a tailored audit approach.•Developed testing strategy for goodwill, intangibles, and management forecasts.•Worked alongside our M&A team on a carve-out audit for a public client which was selling off one of their divisions, including assisting the M&A senior with splitting the carved-out entity from the consolidated financials. •Helped perform high-profile restatement audit for a public client which was undergoing SEC investigation.•Created timeline, budget, and work plan for engagement to meet business needs•Performed control walkthroughs with key employee contacts, analyzing both the design and implementation of controls.•Designed additional testing procedures to address identified control deficiencies surrounding journal entries.•Coordinated testing of multiple real estate funds with our India team.•Tested valuation and impairment of property acquisitions to a real estate portfolio.•Performed purchase accounting procedures for client undergoing privatization •Coached new associates, providing on-the-job training and career advice.•Actively involved in Company recruitment at UCLA and other campuses.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

•Utilized QuickBooks to perform necessary accounting functions such as recording check receipt and disbursement, performing bank reconciliations, etc.•Filed corporate and individual tax returns using ProSystems CCH software.•Created Excel models used to analyze company financials.