J. Gabriel Torres Email & Phone Number

Los Alamitos

• Manage cross-functional IT projects, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to budget, and meeting defined scope and quality standards.
• Ensure alignment of data architecture designs with business and IT goals/objectives.
• Maintain project planning, monitor progress, and proactively identify issues or risks that may impact project success.
• Lead the selection process for technology solutions, guide the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, and help assess the most suitable vendors based on business needs and strategic objectives.
• Manage relationships with IT vendors, MSP, overseeing contracts in collaboration with Procurement and Legal departments, and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, and achievements to stakeholders.

• ACCOUNTING MANAGER 1/2012 – 6/2015
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial statements to ensure compliance with GAAP and SOX.
• Monthly reconciliations of general ledger, bank statements and inventory.
• Manage month end close/open, accruals, fixed asset and prepaid schedules.
• Prepare semi monthly asset based collateral report including inventory and accounts receivable analysis.
• Schedule, organize and lead bank audits.SENIOR ACCOUNTANT 9/2004 – 12/2011

El Segundo, CA

• Provide financial and business consulting services to startup, distressed and companies servicing the apparel, chemical, health and nutritional, toy design/distributor and creative arts industries. Clients include Liz.
• Worked with senior management to make bankruptcy-related adjustments to normalize EBITDA; created valuation using liquidation analysis, trading multiples, precedent transactions, and DCF, showing value in $1 Million –.
• Prepared valuation using public company comparables, precedent transactions, and DCF; provided analysis showing under/over-valued utilized in offer price negotiations.

• Manage in-house and offshore manufacturing planning in support of $100 million yearly revenues.
• Manage bills of materials, engineering change orders and material review board initiatives.
• Compiled data in support of standard costing.
• Full accounting of work order variances and cost overruns.
• Analyze total inventory for slow moving and obsolescence. Set quarterly inventory reserves.
• Determine economical build points for end-of-life products based on anticipated cost expenses.