AVP of Finance

• Jun 2023 - Present

Director of Finance

• Jan 2021 - Jun 2023

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

• Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

Financial Reporting Manager, Center Financial Reporting Group

• Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

Statutory Reporting Manager Statutory Reporting Manager

Accounting Manager

• May 2015 - Apr 2019

• Responsible for all aspects of the monthly/quarterly/yearly financial close including journal entries, reviewing balance sheet account reconciliations, and ensuring completeness, accuracy and presentation of the financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. • Review and analyze monthly P&L results against budgets and forecasts with the Finance Director, CFO and Controller. • Prepare and present quarterly financial results and highlights to Corporate Controller for quarterly… Show more • Responsible for all aspects of the monthly/quarterly/yearly financial close including journal entries, reviewing balance sheet account reconciliations, and ensuring completeness, accuracy and presentation of the financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. • Review and analyze monthly P&L results against budgets and forecasts with the Finance Director, CFO and Controller. • Prepare and present quarterly financial results and highlights to Corporate Controller for quarterly certification. • Lead, develop and manage team of two Sr. Accountants responsible for Inventory Control, Sales Audit and all other expenses/accruals. • Partner and collaborate cross functionally with E-Commerce, Marketing/PR, Visual, Store Operations, and FP&A leadership teams to review and analyze forecasts and budgets to facilitate cost controlling measures. • Responsible for overseeing all aspects and management of Inventory Control including shrink, damages, MOS/LCM reserves and collaborating with the Distribution Center, MP&A, and Store Operations on all inventory issues including reporting on physical inventory results and inventory discrepancies. • Oversaw and successfully implemented full ERP conversion from Epicor to Aptos Merchandising, POS, Sales Audit, Stock Ledger and SAP GL with a “Big Bang” approach. Implementation included conversion and validation of all historical data to load to Aptos as well as all prior year general ledger balances loaded to SAP GL.

Senior Financial Analyst

• Sep 2012 - May 2015

• Responsible for all aspects of the monthly/quarterly/yearly financial close with a focus on Sales Audit, Stores and Corporate Compensation, Fixed Assets, Occupancy, and Marketing expenses. • Present monthly financial results to bridge against the budgets to ascertain risks and opportunities in collaboration with the FP&A team regarding product margins, stores profit, and overall operating profit. • Enhance the analytics of payroll expense by developing a compensation comparative across… Show more • Responsible for all aspects of the monthly/quarterly/yearly financial close with a focus on Sales Audit, Stores and Corporate Compensation, Fixed Assets, Occupancy, and Marketing expenses. • Present monthly financial results to bridge against the budgets to ascertain risks and opportunities in collaboration with the FP&A team regarding product margins, stores profit, and overall operating profit. • Enhance the analytics of payroll expense by developing a compensation comparative across all stores, corporate functions and departments to explain material variances to prior months and budgeted targets for management. • Review stores packaging expense by product category, region, and store level with Store Operations team to maintain adequate inventory levels at all store locations and central warehouse. • Engineer freight model to assess validity of supply chain costs for shipping merchandise inbound/outbound from international vendors and domestic distribution network. • Partner with E-Commerce team to develop further transparency on reporting and controls around fraud prevention for web re-platform project.

Audit Senior

• Sep 2009 - Sep 2012

• Compiled and reviewed the financial statements for all audit clients including all associated footnotes and schedules, including 10-K’s, and 10-Q’s for SEC filings. • Prepared client correspondences, including management representation letters, legal representation letters, financial statement opinions and footnotes. • Responsible for developing and overseeing field work approach of high risk audit areas such as valuation of investments for fund of funds client. Developed effective… Show more • Compiled and reviewed the financial statements for all audit clients including all associated footnotes and schedules, including 10-K’s, and 10-Q’s for SEC filings. • Prepared client correspondences, including management representation letters, legal representation letters, financial statement opinions and footnotes. • Responsible for developing and overseeing field work approach of high risk audit areas such as valuation of investments for fund of funds client. Developed effective method for testing this audit area for engagement team. • Provided guidance to new staff members and review work of other team members, communicating results/issues to senior team members. • Researched and recommended solutions to accounting issues for clients and corresponded directly with management in order to resolve reporting and accounting issues. • Contacted client at all levels, CFO to staff, to execute financial statement audits including preparation and analysis of all balance sheet and income statement accounts and to resolve related issues, and received outstanding client reviews from CFOs, Controllers, and Accounting Directors. Show less • Compiled and reviewed the financial statements for all audit clients including all associated footnotes and schedules, including 10-K’s, and 10-Q’s for SEC filings. • Prepared client correspondences, including management representation letters, legal representation letters, financial statement opinions and footnotes. • Responsible for developing and overseeing field work approach of high risk audit areas such as valuation of investments for fund of funds client. Developed effective… Show more • Compiled and reviewed the financial statements for all audit clients including all associated footnotes and schedules, including 10-K’s, and 10-Q’s for SEC filings. • Prepared client correspondences, including management representation letters, legal representation letters, financial statement opinions and footnotes. • Responsible for developing and overseeing field work approach of high risk audit areas such as valuation of investments for fund of funds client. Developed effective method for testing this audit area for engagement team. • Provided guidance to new staff members and review work of other team members, communicating results/issues to senior team members. • Researched and recommended solutions to accounting issues for clients and corresponded directly with management in order to resolve reporting and accounting issues. • Contacted client at all levels, CFO to staff, to execute financial statement audits including preparation and analysis of all balance sheet and income statement accounts and to resolve related issues, and received outstanding client reviews from CFOs, Controllers, and Accounting Directors. Show less