Natasha Lauret
Los Angeles
Summary
Experienced with financial strategy development, budgeting, and compliance. Utilizes comprehensive financial analysis to inform decision-making and drive organizational growth. Track record of leading cross-functional teams to achieve financial objectives.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Fractional CFO/Corporate Accountant
Paper Birch Consulting
Los Angeles, California
08.2022 - Current
- Monthly reconciliation of accounts in Quickbooks
- Financial statement preparation and analysis for tax filings, including depreciable fixed assets
- 1099 preparation and filing
- Coordination and consultation with tax accountant for strategic tax planning/execution
- Prepare financial projections banking institutions, capital investors and loan acquisition
- Apply and secure SBA and private loans
- Asset acquisition and disposition planning
- Strategic debt and credit management
- Budget planning and implementation for expense reduction and asset acquisition
- Customer invoice management and collection
- Vendor bill payment management
- Payroll management, including quarterly filings and tax payments, CalSavers, compliance with state and local labor laws and garnishments
- Payroll/Contractor/Labor analysis to achieve optimal labor percentage goals
- California AB5 compliance
- Employee performance management and documentation
- Employee time tracking and reporting to payroll payment processors
- Employee schedule creation and management
- Commission reconciliation
- Employee performance and final payment distribution
- Human Resources support, including on-boarding new employees/contractors, compliance with state and local required trainings and employee handbook maintenance
- Coordinate and facilitate team meetings, including agenda creation, assignment of tasks and tracking progress of tasks/goals
- Vendor/Customer/Employment contract review and negotiation
- Quarterly sales tax reconciliation and payment
- Maintain and record inventory COGS, pricing and profit margin
- Inventory variance analysis and ordering protocol
Corporate Accountant
Studio Seireeni, Inc/ Elaine Kim
Los Angeles, California
11.2019 - Current
- Wholesale Invoice payment processing and collections
- Retail and Production Payables Projection
- Create transfer, discount, sales tax, breaks, commission, return procedures
- Manage monthly inventory and sales reporting
- Calculate and reconcile bi-weekly commissions and payroll
- Quarterly sales tax reconciliation
- Monthly account reconciliation in Quickbooks
- Record journal entries to allocate expenses across various departments and retail store locations
- Cash flow preparation and analysis
Manager
Employees Only
Los Angeles, California
05.2018 - 01.2019
- Schedule and coordinate hiring and terminating of FOH staff (20+ employees)
- Manage floor operations during service hours, including FOH and BOH staff (2 bars and 2 dining rooms)
Events Coordinator
Giulia
Los Angeles, California
09.2017 - 05.2018
- Managed communications and negotiated contracts with clients to book private events
- Organized and managed FOH and BOH staff, as well as, ensured all client needs were met during private events
- Assisted in overseeing floor operations, scheduling and managing FOH staff and reconciling daily sales reports
- Created FOH schedule and provided training for new FOH employees
- Coded BOH invoices for accounts payable
- Updated all menus using Photoshop
Chief Executive Officer/Freelance Assistant Director
Bear Down, Inc
Los Angeles, California
03.2014 - 12.2017
- Maintain accounting records, prepare annual financial statements and tax documents
- Prepare and file quarterly and annual payroll and corporate documents
- Create invoices and manage accounts receivable and payable
- Assisted Director in creating and maintaining a daily production schedule
- Managed cast and crew to ensure production was efficient and timely
- Problem solved location, logistical and cast issues as they arose
Manager of Fund Operations/Operations Analyst
Nuveen Investments
Chicago, Illinois
06.2010 - 09.2011
- Managed fund operations staff of thirteen employees
- Evaluated fund operations procedures surrounding accounts payable/receivable, net asset calculations and daily operational procedures and implemented changes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Hired, trained and evaluated staff performance
- Managed, organized and oversaw the payment of approximately 100 mutual fund expenses
- Reviewed daily asset reporting to financial institutions and prepared quarterly and annual Board reports
Audit Senior/Staff
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Chicago, Illinois
09.2007 - 05.2010
- Performed GAAP financial statement audits for a variety of investment management clients
- Audit work performed included SEC reporting of year-end financial statements in conformity with Regulation S-X.
- Maintained budget variance reports for use by engagement management.
- Supervised and trained staff and interns on multiple engagements.
- Worked effectively in a team environment, often under significant pressure from supervisors and clients to meet reporting deadlines.
- Coordinated the implementation of new documentation procedures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the confirmation process, increasing the understandability of the work product and reducing overall reviewer hours.
- Developed an excel macro template that replaced an otherwise manual process of acquiring NAV amounts and income distributions. This template was distributed to the entire investment management practice in the Chicago office to increase efficiency across all engagements.
Education
B.S. - Accountancy, double major in Finance
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois06-2007
Skills
- Proficient in: Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Word, Intuit QuickBooks, Photoshop
Certification
- Completed all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examinations in Illinois.
- Licensed Certified Public Accountant
- June 2010 – September 2012
Timeline
Fractional CFO/Corporate Accountant
Paper Birch Consulting
08.2022 - Current
Corporate Accountant
Studio Seireeni, Inc/ Elaine Kim
11.2019 - Current
Manager
Employees Only
05.2018 - 01.2019
Events Coordinator
Giulia
09.2017 - 05.2018
Chief Executive Officer/Freelance Assistant Director
Bear Down, Inc
03.2014 - 12.2017
Manager of Fund Operations/Operations Analyst
Nuveen Investments
06.2010 - 09.2011
Audit Senior/Staff
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
09.2007 - 05.2010
B.S. - Accountancy, double major in Finance
DePaul University