Luke Friedman Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

Designed, executed, and managed reviews and audits of consolidated financial statements and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings (including forms S-8, 10-Q, and 10-K) for US public companies in accordance with US GAAP and SEC regulations. Industry exposure includes technology and shippingResponsible for technical accounting in areas encompassing impairment under Investments – Equity Securities (ASC 321) and impairment under long-lived assets (ASC 360), gain contingencies under Contingencies (ASC 450), debt modification and extinguishment under Debt (ASC 470), incremental borrowing rate, lease modification, lease termination, and revenue recognition under Leases (ASC 842) for publicly traded oil shipping company Performed technical review for asset purchase accounting under Business combinations (ASC 805) for private media company Performed review of Revenue (ASC 606) adoption and scoping methodology memos and executed audit procedures over the scoping and application of methodology inclusive of contract testing for private technology company Performed risk assessment and analytical procedures to identify unusual performance trends in relation to relevant benchmarks, prior performance, expectations, budgets, and current financial conditions Partnered with business process owners of significant risk areas and internal audit to drive audit over ICFR in accordance with Sarbanes–Oxley Managed engagement economics including analysis of out of scope billings for all clients

London, Gb

London, Gb

Developed revenue audit plan and coordinated standardized execution for over 90 EMEA statutory audits for large global information technology company Conducted business unit surveys to ensure compliance with critical group policy elections for IFRS 15 implementation such as principal vs. agent recognition, material right significant financing, etc. and presented results on weekly basis with project owner for large global telecommunication companyPerformed process gap analysis and assisted in the drafting of second line of defense assessment report that was shared with management of large multinational telecommunication company

London, Gb

London, Gb

Leader of day to day execution of audit strategy at large, publicly traded technology firm in Chicago.Coach to junior team members for issues they encounter in audit work or to instruct them on areas they previously not audited.Lead Senior for revenue and fraud risk areas.Key liaison between team in Chicago and support team in India.Liaison between team in Chicago and component and statutory teams. Assist local teams with stock base compensation and intercompany requests.

London, Gb

Staff associate on audit of a large, publicly traded technology firm in Chicago.Executed test of control testing and walk-throughs for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.Performed transaction testing over revenue and fraud risk areas of the audit.

Covered Select Comfort and Live Nation for Applied Investment Management XXXVIII portfolio.Conducted fundamental, technical, and beta analysis for bottom-up stock selection.Discussed economic and industry trends for top-down stock selection.Forecasted EPS and intrinsic value of stocks using discounted free cash flow and multiples.Executed trades for the portfolio worth over $3 million.

Master'S Degree, Financial Reporting And Assurance Services

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Computational And Applied Mathematics