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San Francisco, California, US

• Scaled accounting and financial operations and workflow with ~300% growth in revenues between 2016 to 2019.
• Closed multiple funds and financing transactions, increasing financing facility by +700% between 2016 to 2021.
• Built streamlined processes on SAAS revenue recognition.
• Responsible for financial reporting, financing partners relationships.
• Owns vendor contract and SAAS contracts management.

San Francisco, California, US

• Scaled accounting and financial operations and workflow with ~300% growth in revenues between 2016 to 2019.
• Instrumental in growing financing facility by +500% between 2016 to 2019.
• Streamlined revenue recognition reporting that allows revenue and cost of revenues reporting daily.
• Negotiates HR benefits contracts and business insurance agreements resulting in significant $ savings.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Hire #1 in Finance/Accounting and built the team from ground up. Promoted as CEO in 2015.
• Instrumental in growing revenues from $400K per month to $1.1M per month.
• Rolled out new accounting and POS systems. Established controls, policies and procedures. Trained accounting team with the new accounting system and operations staff with the POS.
• Set-up quarterly financial reporting and quarterly investor letter updates.

San Francisco, CA, US

New York, NY, US

• Established financial close checklist and improved close process from Day 15 to Day 7.
• Established and rolled out the Company’s commuter program (with WageWorks) and 401K Plan administration.
• Primary liaison between tax accountants, vendors, insurance companies and external auditors.
• Completed 3 years of New York State labor audit and 2 years of financial audits.

• Responsible for the company's financial plans and policies and accounting practices; maintenance of fiscal records and preparation of financial reports. Overall management of general accounting, payroll, cost.
• Updated and streamlined internal policies and procedures related to royalty and commission reporting.
• Formalized policies on month-end and quarterly financial reporting process and accounts payable process.
• Responsible for banking, lease and vendor relationships and acted as primary liaison between tax accountants, insurance companies and auditors.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

• Assisted in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process including filing of Form S1, Form 10Q and 10K. Responsible for accounting policy and business combinations disclosures of the S1, 10Q and 10K.
• Responsible for technical accounting issue research, provided technical US GAAP accounting guidance to all subsidiaries, and coordinated implementation of new accounting pronouncements. Supported SEC comment response.
• Liaised with all worldwide Business Controllers, internal and external auditors for proper accounting of significant financial transactions (revenue recognition, business combinations, debt refinancing, derivative.
• Owned Coty’s accounting policies – responsible for all accounting position memos submitted to the SEC and external auditors.
• Participated in the business development steering committee working directly with Coty’s Global Controller, CFO and CEO in reviewing and evaluating business valuation, and financial M&A transactions between 2011 to 2013.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed 3 IPO engagements between 2008 and 2011 (including a solar company based in New Jersey). Also performed audits of SEC-registered companies (10Q, 10K, 8K, 20F, 6K) such as Icahn Enterprises (www.ielp.com), Kit.
• Consistent member of the High Five Advisory Board, consisting of the Top performers (highest rating) in the North East Region.
• Lead of local office trainings in NY Cluster with the Professional Standards Partner covering recent accounting standards, SEC/PCAOB rules, audit tools, audit methodology, audit quality, audit efficiency and CPE.
• “New York Office Champion” – rolled out and conducted training sessions for systems implementation and updates in methodologies.
• Experienced in consolidation/combination and managing multi-locations engagements. Managed multiple engagement teams comprised of 12-15 team members and developed staff skills by effectively delegating and monitoring.

• CF Sharp Holdings owns companies involved in crew management, shipping agency, freight forwarding, printing house, travel agency and training school for nurses.
• Worked directly with CEO, COO, CFO and Board of Directors. Handled the equity transaction of the Group, reviewing equity agreements, equity issuances and intercompany transactions. Handled relationships with banks.
• Headed the conversion of all subsidiaries to Great Plains accounting system (from various accounting system platforms).
• Managed about 8-10 accounting managers of the operating companies including approximately 10-15 direct reports in the Corporate Finance/Accounting department.

Makati City, Metro Manila, PH

• Audits of US/Canadian HQ reporting including Wrigley Philippines and Canadian Helicopters.
• Due diligence engagements – particularly the privatization of National Power Corporation. Reviewed Independent Power Producers’ contracts; agreed upon procedures include review financial compliance with the EPIRA law.