Leah Fitz, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Stood up finance and accounting at the company following Alpine Investor's acquisition of AirDNA• Led the implementation of NetSuite (including various integrations with other systems) and built the processes, procedures, and controls around financial reporting• Provide strategic financial leadership and guidance to the rest of the executive team via a comprehensive financial strategy to ensure sustainable growth, effective resource allocation, and data-backed decision making• Oversee the budgeting and forecasting processes to monitor and manage financial performance• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, inclusive of monthly financial statements and board presentations, KPIs, and audited annual financial statements• Work with Alpine Investors as our private equity sponsor to evaluate M&A opportunities, assist in financial due diligence, and review the deal model• Maintain a high-performing finance team, promoting professional development, teamwork, and accountability

Denver, Co, Us

As Manager of Corporate Finance at Ping Identity, Leah's primary responsibilities included the following:• Leading the consolidation of company-wide results, analysis, forecasts, and budgets during monthly and quarter close and maintain the long-term forecast for the Company (via Adaptive);• Tracking financial performance against forecasts, interacting with business partners to identify reasons for outperformance/underperformance, and driving positive strategic change across the organization;• Establishing trusted relationships with cross-functional leaders to articulate and maintaining key financial and performance metrics;• Overseeing the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for General and Administrative (G&A) functions including headcount, operating expenses and capital expenditures;• Creating and aggregating materials for Executive and Board presentations to drive focus and insights on business trends, opportunities, and risks;• Facilitating the compilation of quarterly internal and external materials to aide in management discussion and analysis of key financial and business performance indicators;• Recognizing areas of improvement and supporting the design of new processes to improve the quality and productivity of the finance team and the business in general;• Supporting strategic projects and providing leadership with ad hoc research and analysis as necessary; and• Managing others, developing exceptional talent, and encouraging the team to challenge assumptions.

Denver, Co, Us

Leah completed a rotation as the Manager of Investor Relations at Ping, where she was involved in the quarterly earnings process and helped market Ping Identity as an investment vehicle. During her rotation in Investor Relations, she helped bring the function in-house and host Ping's first-ever Investor Day. Her other IR responsibilities included the following:• Developed and managed metrics around Ping’s financial profile;• Built and maintained relationships with financial analysts and investors and working with analysts to communicate and evaluate research models;• Implemented and maintained software and models to track and analyze consensus figures;• Created tools to communicate competitor and peer performance, stock performance, and valuation metrics with Ping leadership;• Aided in the development of quarterly earnings materials including press releases, scripts, and supporting materials;• Built models and used data analysis to understand complex relationships, identify important trends, and gain insight on Ping’s revenue/expense line items, drivers and scalability; and• Performed competitive and strategic analysis on Ping’s peers and the industry as well as buy/sell-side trends to help keep management aware of the markets and investor views on Ping Identity.

Denver, Co, Us

Leah was previously the Manger of Financial Reporting at Ping Identity, where she led the Company’s financial reporting process and assisted with technical accounting, M&A valuations, and other special projects as necessary. During the execution of Ping’s IPO (and its subsequent follow-on offerings), Leah led the efforts to prepare the Company’s PCAOB-compliant quarterly and annual financial statements and prepared workbooks necessary to support the information set forth in the S-1. Her primary responsibilities included the following:• Prepared the financial statements (on Forms 10-K and 10-Q), supporting schedules, MD&A, and presentation decks in order to support reporting to external owners, debt holders, statutory authorities, and internal stakeholders;• Managed the external reporting system and compilation of financial statements through the system, including the iXBRL tagging of those statements;• Managed the equity compensation system in order to appropriately account for stock-based compensation in the financial statements;• Prepared the technical accounting analyses for various areas of the business, including earnings per share, segment determination, M&A activity, and stock-based compensation;• Prepared forecasts for the Finance team for various aspects of stock-based compensation, including expense, EPS, equity taxes, and other equity awards;• Researched and applied new and existing accounting pronouncements, including preparation of technical memos;• Reviewed and assessed the adequacy of various valuations such as the annual goodwill impairment testing, common stock valuations, and the valuation of acquired companies; • Coordinated information requests and prepare supporting documentation and analyses to support the financial statements, footnotes and MD&A disclosures, including disclosure checklists and tie-outs; and• Assisted with the coordination and execution of the annual financial statement audits and quarterly reviews.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Leah was a Senior at Webroot where she helped with the Company’s technical accounting, systems implementations, accounting standards implementations, and M&A diligence, valuation, and purchase price allocations. Her responsibilities included the following: • Assessed and implemented new accounting standards; • Led the impact assessment of ASC 606; • Helped implement new revenue software (RevPro) to aide in the recognition of revenue under ASC 606; • Provided technical accounting support to the business development group on proposed transactions and deal structures; • Managed accounting for goodwill and intangible assets, including annual goodwill impairment testing, assessment of triggering events for impairment testing of intangibles, establishing amortization policies, and consolidated reporting; • Assisted with M&A due diligence, purchase accounting, valuations, and related analyses as needed; • Established and maintained financial accounting and reporting policies including communication and adherence to all policies across the organization; and • Monitored the activities of all accounting standard setting bodies, including FASB, SEC, and PCAOB, and evaluating the accounting and reporting impact of new standards.

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Leah was a Senior Associate in the Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services (CMAAS) group, a part of PwC's Deals practice where she advised clients in moments of exceptional change around deals and other accounting changes. Her main areas of focus included the following: • Capital markets, particularly IPOs and debt offerings (preparation of S-1's and other registration statements, IPO readiness assessments, and creation of project plans); • Acquisitions (preparation of Article 11 and ASC 805 pro forma financial statements to include in SEC filings and PPA valuation analyses); • Divestitures (compilation of carve out financial statements, and goodwill and long-lived asset impairment analyses); • Company accounting policies (drafted various accounting policies - including fair value, business combinations, revenue recognition, internal-use software, and foreign exchange transactions and translations - and created training plans and materials for several policies); • Implementation of the new revenue recognition standard (ASC 606); • US GAAP to IFRS conversions; and • Deal strategy and readiness including navigating accounting complexity and change.Leah worked on transactions of various sizes with varied interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisers. She also worked in a coaching environment with both formal and informal systems in place as well as continuous on the job training that helped ensure personal and professional development.

Master'S And Bachelor'S Degrees, Accounting (With A Minor In Economics)

Economics & International Studies