Rachel Castro Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

Notable Projects• Led an end-to-end PDLC risk assessment for an intelligent portfolio offering at a Top Wealth Management Firm• Led the Chart of Accounts redesign effort at a High-Tech Startup Bank as part of a migration from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud• Lead Process Architect for a ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM) implementation at a Large Fintech company• Planning & Change Management Lead for Enterprise Issues Management & Escalations Policy Design at a Top 3 US Bank• Risk and Controls Program Implementation Manager for Investment Banking Division at a Top 3 US Bank as a part of an Enterprise-Wide Business Process Modeling uplift programInternal & Practice Contributions• Key contributor in multiple sales origination calls with potential clients as well as crafting the storyline and driving proposal content creation, resulting in $3.2M sales to date• Weekly sales pipeline reporting through PowerBI to inform practice leaders of progress towards sales targets, identification of resourcing needs, and opportunity scrubbing/validation with sales capture owners• Accenture Student Empowerment Mentor (AESP) at UC Berkeley

San Francisco, California, Us

• Sole analyst supporting the Investor Relations Officer and Corporate Finance Manager in the quarterly earnings process• Analyzed and consolidated financial data from 10+ functional business groups to facilitate the discussion of variances for quarterly reporting, forecasting, and budgeting purposes• Delivered presentations with supporting analytics used by executives, the board of directors, and audit committee regarding the company’s overall performance on a quarterly basis• Assisted the CFO and other business leaders with a variety of ad hoc projects such as: foreign exchange rates impact, operating expense trends, benchmarking analysis to industry peers, changes to peers’ stock prices post-announcement of their full retrospective impact for ASC 606 revenue standards, and cost benefit analysis of investment options for overseas cash returned as a part of tax regulation changes• Developed controls and documentation around forecasting of licensing (95% of total revenue) due to ASC 606 standards• Created custom reports using Nasdaq IR Insight to support the Investor Relations Officer at conferences with details regarding the investors’ share in Dolby and our competitors, as well as total equity and recent changes to these metrics; enabling her to access the most up-to-date information with ease

Gb

- Functioned as the lead staff member on 5+ client engagements performing IT controls testing in support of SOX Financial Audits in the areas of planning, audit strategy, scoping, testing, and deficiency evaluation/remediation.- Coordinated directly with business and IT stakeholders to identify and assess key IT dependencies and controls across all business processes. - Developed and executed control testing plans around a variety of applications, databases, networks, operating systems, and other business-supporting infrastructure. - Performed testing over complex application configurations to ensure automated transactions follow applicable accounting policies. - Assisted in the evaluation and redesign of controls on SOX Readiness engagements for both recent and pre-IPO clients. - Created and monitored project budgets to facilitate appropriate staffing and utilization of staff resources. - Led weekly meetings with client stakeholders to communicate status updates, scoping changes, and control testing results.- Managed junior associates and overseas teams.- Demonstrated innovation in coming up with new ways to allocate local team work, which has led to significant reductions in engagement costs and local resource hours. - Succeeded in nearly doubling outsourcing hours on the largest client in our region, while still maintaining high quality deliverables. Internal & Practice Contributions- Co-pioneered a campus recruiting initiative at the local community colleges to help identify high-achieving candidates before they transfer to a four-year university.- Scheduled interns on client projects as well as manager and partner shadowing opportunities based on their unique skill sets and career interests with resource management, improving conversion rates to full time associates by 25%.

Gb

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Serving as the Spotify Campus Representative at UC Berkeley for the Fall 2013 semester.Duties Include:• Educating and on-boarding new users• Partnering with campus organizations• Driving local awareness through event marketing• Creating, capturing distributing content across social media

Tutored four students from grades 7th-11th focusing on Math, Sciences, and Spanish, but able to teach most subjects for these grade levels. Also tutored Economics (Macro and Micro) and Econometrics at a college-level at Berkeley.

London, Gb

Providing general support to the Mechanical Engineering Department for the Paladin Integrated Management Project (PIM). Duties included preparing reports and presentations using MS Office, supporting drawing preparation and prototype/production build and system checkout. Also, reorganizing the EPDM database (Enterprise Program Data Management); now available completely online for all Land and Armaments employees across the United States. Also reviewed engineering drawings to meet both internal and external customer requirements.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Sports Camp (Tennis, Soccer, and Basketball) and Science Camp (Robotics). Providing leadership and guidance to a group of 8-12 campers of a 40+ children camp, ranging for grades 1st-6th. Responsibilities include planning and scheduling camp activities and trips, and promoting the Y’s four core values of responsibility, respect, care, and honesty, but also being a friend and role model to my campers.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Filing patient medical charts, creating patient spreadsheets on Excel, scheduling appointments, and providing Spanish translation for the doctors to patients as needed.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Hosted and performed in two children's shows (Backyard Circus and Peanuts Party in the Plaza) within the park. Performed 5-6 shows per day. Experience dealing with several participant situations while on stage, such as translating for Spanish speaking families as well as providing basic sign language instructions for deaf participants to keep the show inclusive for all families.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

Transfer, Economics

High School Diploma, General Studies