Accomplished accounting professional with extensive experience in leading complex financial audits for publicly traded and privately held companies. Industry specialties include apparel retail, distribution, and manufacturing.
Director - Accounting & Financial Reporting @ From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Audit Senior Manager @ • Manage all phases of annual financial statement audits, internal control audits, and quarterly review procedures for up to five clients concurrently.
• Negotiate fees, prepare project budgets, identify and schedule project team members, and evaluate actual vs. budgeted results; Determine the scope, nature, extent, and schedule of audit work and lead teams with up to 25 seniors and staff level auditors.
• Coordinate and oversee the audits of client’s international subsidiaries performed by other Deloitte offices in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, China, Slovakia, Germany, England, and Canada.
• Identify and research accounting issues and propose solutions to the engagement partners and client personnel on a variety of technical accounting subjects, including consolidations, foreign currency translation, lease accounting, intangible and fixed asset impairment, inventory management and valuation, purchase accounting, stock options and awards, revenue recognition, and others.
• Review the adequacy of disclosures and content included in SEC filings and responses to SEC comment letters for public companies.
• Schedule, manage, and review the deliverables completed by tax, information technology, business and real estate valuation, actuarial, complex accounting, and other specialists.
• Assist in recruiting and interviewing prospective employment candidates, teach technical trainings, act as a career counselor for senior and staff level auditors, and provide semiannual performance evaluations for staff and senior auditors that report to me.
• Partner with clients for integrated audits to establish a top down and risk based approach to scoping and testing internal controls. From September 2004 to March 2012 (7 years 7 months) Greater Los Angeles Area
BA, Business Economics, Emphasis in Accounting, Minor in Writing @ University of California, Santa Barbara From 2000 to 2004 Caitlin Kelly is skilled in: Auditing, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, SEC filings, Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Financial Audits, Management, Consolidation, Leadership, Fixed Assets
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