Financial Reporting Controller
Resume:
Carlos Rene Lerma
Huntington Beach, California **646
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OVERVIEW
Leadership experience in all areas of accounting and finance. Skilled in Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial reporting, technical accounting, SOX documentation, audits and consolidated financial reporting. Experience with Oracle, Great Plains, JD Edwards, Hyperion Essbase, MAS 90, SAP, Quickbooks, FRX, Crystal Reports, Planful, XBRL, Workiva, Cognos Analytics, and Microsoft Office.
TaskUs, Inc. – New Braunfels, Texas
November, 2021 – Present SEC Financial Reporting Manager
Responsible for the preparation and filing of the 10K, 10Q, 8-K and earning release with the SEC, including financial statements, footnotes, management’s discussion and analysis, and supporting schedules.
Directed month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
Responsible for technical research, technical memos, and implementation of accounting issues to ensure US GAAP compliance and SEC reporting requirements.
Utilized EDGAR to electronically file SEC reports, streamlining the filing process and improving the accuracy of submitted documents including section 16, and other required filings.
Responsible for reviewing US GAAP disclosures included in Forms 10-Q and 10-K.
Assisted in the global consolidation process of preparing financial statements including GAAP balance sheet, statement of operations, cash flow statement, non-GAAP reconciliations and KPIs.
Served as liaison with external and internal auditors on reporting matters, quarterly reviews, and annual audit.
Assisted in the implementation of ASC 842 Lease accounting including the testing and implementation of new Lease Query software for reporting.
Collaborated with cross-function teams (Finance, Investor Relations, Legal) to gather data for filings in Workiva ensuring timely and compliant submissions.
Responsible for overseeing financial reporting team members including offshore resources.
Partnered with various departments including Finance, Investor Relations, Legal, Global Accounting and Tax.
Assisted BDO with the SOX design, testing, and documentation for financial reporting and consolidations.
Guess? Inc. – Los Angeles, California
May, 2021 – November, 2021 Sr. SEC Financial Reporting/ Global Consolidations, Consultant
Assisted in the 10-Q preparation and filing with the SEC, including footnotes disclosures, and press release.
Global consolidations of income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and fixed asset roll forward.
Global collaboration with finance teams on key performance indicators for monthly and quarterly comparisons.
Worked with the finance team to improve the EDGAR filing process, ensuring accurate and timely submission of required filings, reducing errors and delays in the reporting cycle.
Financial schedules responsibilities include Derivative Financial Instruments, Fair Value Measurements, Commitments and Contingencies, Share-Based Compensation, and Earnings per Share.
Used Workiva to consolidate global financial data, facilitating the preparation of consolidated financial statements and other required schedules.
Mullen Technologies, Inc. – Brea, California
August, 2020 – April 2021 SEC Financial Reporting, Consultant
Prepared S-4 document for pre-IPO company filing, including year-end financial statements (audited) and Q1 financial statements (reviewed), footnote disclosures, data analysis, integrity validation, and final reviews.
Collaborated with key business partners inside and outside the company, including finance, senior management, investor relations, legal, senior engineering and other functions.
Streamlined reporting process and facilitated collaboration among teams through Workiva, resulting in faster preparation of audited financial statements and footnote disclosures.
Assisted with annual external audit and quarterly review, including preparation of supporting audit schedules and served as a point of contact on financial statement disclosures and tie out questions.
Assisted with the preparation and filing of S-4 documents with the SEC using EDGAR, and supported the preparation of financial statements, footnotes, and disclosures for pre-IPO filing.
Golden Systems-C4 Distribution Company – Costa Mesa, California
November, 2019 – June, 2020 Controller
Responsible for developing and enforcing company systems, policies, and controls for the accounting department.
Responsible for protecting company assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls.
Responsible for AP, AR, fixed assets, payroll, and inventory valuations.
Responsible for preparing weekly scheduled cash flow and cash requirement reports for owners and management.
Prepared and analyzed monthly financial statements including balance sheet, income statements, and cash flow.
Responsible for complying with federal, state, and local requirements. Review new and existing legislation.
Capital Group – Irvine, California
January, 2018 – November, 2019 Senior Financial Analyst, Lead
As a member of Capital Group’s trades, accounting, distribution and pricing team with reviewer responsibilities, I participated in striking the daily NAV (net asset value) for all retail and institutional funds with 1.9 trillion in assets under management and 7.3 billion annual revenue for 2018.
Primary tasks include: reviewing daily trade recaps, failed trades correction and revision, managed risk of external wires, reviewing trade exception edits, verifying Corporate Actions, and NAV impact analysis as required.
Responsible for the end of day verification of NAVs sent out to JPM, BNY Mellon, and State Street Bank.
Responsible for review of the monthly financial statements of Capital’s outsourced funds to JPM.
Responsible for private equity funds distribution, pricing, and expenses.
First American P&C Insurance Companies – Santa Ana, California
October, 2016 – September, 2017 Interim Controller
Managed year-end close process including AP, AR, and GL, including reviewing journal entries, and external audit for First American P&C Insurance companies.
Responsible for the preparation of monthly consolidated financial statements, eliminations, and inter-company.
Responsible for reviewing monthly dashboard reports, including updates on YTD, QTD and MTD budget to actuals variances to CFO and executive team.
Assisted in filing State quarterly financial statements including balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, equity roll forward and investment schedules.
Successfully managed three GL Accountants, two Regulatory Accountants, an Accounting Manager with two AP Clerks and seven AR Clerks.
Implemented ASU 842 – Lease accounting changes, and researched ASC 606 – Revenue recognition standard.
Autobytel, Inc. – Irvine, California
September, 2013 – June, 2016 Senior Accountant, SEC Reporting
Responsible for month end activities including expense accruals, reversing entries, and preparing prepaid journal entries, updating all prepaid schedules, and the amortization of prepaid accounts.
Responsible for booking monthly revenue, commissions, journal entries and account reconciliations.
Played a key role in implementing Workiva for improved efficiency in the creation and filing of financial statements and SEC-required schedules.
Assisted with the preparation, and filing of companies consolidated financial statements, elimination entries.
Assisted in the completion of multiple acquisitions including Transfer of Funds, Deferred Acquisition Costs, integrating the opening balances General Ledger/Trial balances, Fixed Assets, Cash, Intangibles and Goodwill.
Responsible for all fixed assets additions, retirements, construction in progress, monthly depreciation journal entries, as well as fixed asset roll forward schedules tied from Great Plains fixed asset module to the GL
Assisted in the preparation of SEC filings including reviewing and filing 10-Q and 10-K documents.
Assisted the team with the preparation and filing of 10-Q and 10-K reports through EDGAR, ensuring all documents were filed accurately and on time.
Responsible for all Software Capitalization project accounting SOP 98-1, including WIP, Amortization schedules, monthly journal entries, and quarterly impairment reviews FASB 144.
Allergan Inc. – Price Waterhouse Coopers – Irvine, California
October, 2012 – August, 2013 SEC Reporting Analyst/ Audit
While supporting PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in their Allergan Medical audit engagement, reviewed, and prepared audit schedules for the HIA Pharma engagement addressing HealthCare Provider compliance issues related to Allergan’s Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General.
Assisted the PWC audit team in the design and implementation of system process to expedite legal processing through Access database and proprietary program. The team researched over 15,000 HCP events and contracts.
Researched, compiled, and reviewed Allergan’s HCP contracts aligned to events such as Speaker Programs, Advisory Boards and Physician workshops to comply with CIA requirements identifying outstanding contracts.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Minor in Accounting
Texas A&M University
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