San Jose State University

University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Controller at Attivo Partners

Attivo Partners is a full service Finance and Accounting firm. We help founders, entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies raise capital, build business models, tackle day-to-day finance, accounting and payroll needs, operationalize for scale, and achieve successful exits. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every engagement and we customize our support to your company’s individual needs and concerns. Every member of Attivo is driven to deliver quality services through a collaborative approach.

-Provide accounting and financial consulting to various startups and tech companies in the Bay Area.

-Clients include:
Phylagen Inc.
Substack Inc.
CodeCombat Inc.
BelongHome
Tesa Medcorp

Attivo Partners

Assistant Controller

-Provide accounting and financial consulting to various startups and tech companies in the Bay Area.

-Clients include:
 Autopilot HQ, Inc
 ApplePie Capital
 BuildingConnected Inc
 Codenvy Inc
 Technoratimedia 
 Alluxio, Inc.
 Brain Technologies

Kranz & Associates

Senior Accounting Manager

-Serve as GL lead managing a 5-day  month end close
-Manage accounts receivables and monthly aging report
-Manage full cycle of accounts payable
-Coordination with other finance staff to ensure timely issuance of financial statements and              management reports
-Prepare journal entries with appropriate backup/documentation
-Preparation of expense accruals, investment roll-forwards, fixed assets roll-forwards, contract review
-Maintain month and quarter end close binders for account reconciliations and journal entries
-Prepare schedules for financial audit for 10Q and 10K’s.
-Sign off of 10Q and 10K filings.
-Manage Finance team’s deadlines with respect to preparation of external audit requested schedules
-Primary liaison with external auditors 
-Ensures that all required reviews and sign-offs occur in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance
-Review of fixed assets register, depreciation calculations and  related journal entries
-Sales use tax and property tax reporting and compliance
-Quarterly flux analysis for all Balance Sheet and P&L accounts
-Work closely with CEO and COO on monthly budget to actual comparisons
-Management of cash and investment accounts

LookSmart

Controller

-Serve as lead for accounting close (prepare monthly journal entries,  post journal entries for accounting group, prepare monthly financials, prepare month end quarter end close package for management, P&L and variance analysis, balance sheet and income statement consolidation with Askmen.com.

-Maintain month and quarter end close binder for account reconciliation and journal entries

-Manage digital download revenue (provide financial support and ensure  accurate revenue sharing payments to publishers)

Fox Interactive Media - IGN Entertainment

Senior GL Accountant

-Print and online advertising billings (invoicing via Datatrax, cash collections, sales rep maintenance, account maintenance)
-National online advertising billings (invoicing via Oracle, impression calculation, insertion order review, cash collection)
-Prepared commissions for sales reps and outsides publishers
-Performed revenue recognition for print and online subscriptions.  Maintained waterfall schedule for monthly amortizations
-Other duties included month end review and reconciliations, journal entry creation/posting,  fixed assets and depreciation  maintenance, P&L and variance analysis

Fox Interactive Media- Scout Media Inc.

Senior Accountant

-Account review and reconciliation of various balance sheet and P&L accounts ( prepaid, goodwill, intangible assets, rent, restructuring, general accruals)
-Assisted with month end closing processes ( journal entries, depreciation, P&L analysis)
-Fixed asset maintenance (data uploading into Oracle, asset tagging, run monthly depreciation)
-Other duties included updating leases, rent schedules and property tax filings

IGN Entertainment

Senior Analyst

-Worked on several Protiviti projects in the areas of internal audit, business risk, and Sarbanes Oxley.  Clients include Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Netratings, and IGN Entertainment.
-File management and analysis for fraud litigation.
-Provided financial statement risk analysis assessment
-Various projects for corporate finance department.  (e.g., revenue recognition, PBC schedules, analytics, reconciliation, financial bridge, prepare and input audit adjustments into Solomon, assist with SEC filings, and helping ensure proper Oracle conversion from current accounting system)

Robert Half Finance & Accounting

Consultant

-Responsible for daily reconciliation of corporate general ledger accounts to reported bank balances using UAR software 
-Responsible for cash management and bank to book reconciliation of Illinois, Michigan, New York/New Jersey, and Washington D.C. regions
-Posted month ending journal entries to general ledger accounts via Peoplesoft
-Monitored and assisted with all month-end and year-end processes applicable to the Treasury function

Steven Wang