• Manage and oversee all aspects of the firm, including client relationships, business development, and financial operations.
• Provide tax preparation and planning, as well as bookkeeping services to individuals, small businesses, and corporations, ensuring compliance with federal & state tax laws and regulations.
• Provide business consultation services, including financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning, to help clients achieve their goals and maximize profitability.
• Develop, implement, and improve internal processes and procedures to achieve efficiency.
• Manage a team of accounting professionals and provide mentorship and training to support their professional growth and development.

• Manage the audit of the financial statements, as well as over the internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), including the filing of the annual financials (10-K's), and reviewing quarterly financials (10-Q's) prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
• Supervise account cycles and areas of the audit including Cash, Debt, Revenues, Inventory, as well as the execution and review of the testing of the various financial statement accounts.
• Test the design and implementation of business process controls, such as Treasury, to include interest rate and foreign exchange rate hedges, Employee Compensation including HR/Payroll, as well as Tax related to receivables/payables, deferred taxes, and the return to provision (RTP).
● Engagements: Public SEC issuers, as well as private clients. Industries: Investment Holdings Airspace Manufacturing Security Systems Manufacturing
2Barrera

• Execute the audit of the financial statements, as well as over the internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), including the filing of the annual financials (10-K's), and reviewing quarterly financials (10-Q's) prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
• Supervise the execution and review of the various complex areas, including fraud risks within revenues and management estimates.
• Lead the development of implementing continued training and guidance for the team.
• Ensure accurate accounting, consolidation and reporting are being prepared by the client through performing controls and substantive audit-based procedures.
• Facilitate quarterly meetings with internal legal counsel, as well as Committee members, to ensure commitments and contingencies were identified for assessment of disclosure.
• Research policies and guidance as they relate to accounting and reporting implications of contemplated client transactions.
• Reviewed preparation of audit procedures and documentation

• Directed field work on various audit engagements to include financial statement audits for governmental entities under GASB and organizations in the not-for-profit (NFP) sector.
• Executed audit plan and stages through substantive and analytic testing procedures.
• Concluded the final stages of the audit including finalization of the audit report.
• Maintained cooperative relationships with staff and fellow leaders, to create the space for open communication and information sharing.
● Engagements: NFP Family Foundation Yellow Book

CLIENT SERVING CONTRACTOR – EXTERNAL AUDIT (SENIOR)
• Directed field work at the senior level, managed staff performance.
• Supervised the execution of the various complex areas of assigned engagements.
• Coordinated, directed, planned, and executed the financial reporting components of audit.
• Remained educated with internal accounting policies to ensure effective, efficient practice.
● Engagements: Public SEC Issuers; First year audit client pursuing initial public offering (IPO). Industries: Biotech & Life Sciences Software Distribution
3Barrera

• Remain updated with federal, local, and state tax laws for tax preparation and planning.
• Record and report on relevant company financial statements and taxation information.
• Ensure proper expense documentation present for each journal entry.
• Reconciled monthly bank to book items, and further research relevant discrepancies.

• Prepared 1065 Partnership Information Return to be filed for Owner Partner's Schedule K-1.
• Consulted owners of relevant business tax law and regulations of a for-profit business.
• Ensured proper expense documentation presented for each journal entry.
• Reconciled monthly items bank-to-book, further researching any discrepancies.

• Supervised the execution of the various complex parts of assigned audit engagements.
• Practice professional skepticism, comfortable enough to challenge the assumptions of more senior team or management leaders, if those leaders may need to consider alternatives.
• Demonstrate professional skepticism and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Assessment of IC and relevant controls testing to determine testing reliance.
• Review the preparation of other external documents that include financial information.
● Engagements: Public SEC issuers, and private non-issuer clients. Industries: Manufacturing (PCAOB) Private Client Services (AICPA)

• Identify potential audit issues or unusual relationships from basic financial statement analysis.
• Complete audit processes to perform engagements in compliance with set standards.
• Assist in the preparation of other external documents that include financial information.
• Effectively present and communicate accounting guidance to our clients.
● Engagements: Public SEC issuers, Governmental utilities, non-profit healthcare. Industries: Government Public Sector (GASB) Not-for-profit (NFP) Manufacturing (PCAOB)
4Barrera

• Reconciled book and bank account balances for cash, common stock, retained earnings/equity, franchise agreements, consumer product goods (CPG), accounts payable disbursements, etc.
• Processed journal entry uploads through Oracle: Peoplesoft software to post transactions to reflective periods including franchise accruals, franchise withholding taxes, and reclass of salary/wages for our international partner locations.
• Calculated monthly royalties of international franchise partners and updated monthly foreign exchange rates to properly convert local partner currencies into USD.