Aura Alcala

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Independent Accounting & Tax Consultant

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)

• Lead financial year-end closing, financial reporting, and in-depth financial analysis for business and individual clients, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards. • Establish and document scalable accounting processes and procedures to enhance operational efficiency and support business growth. Integrated QuickBooksTime with QBO to track time by customer and job for a construction remodeling company. • Prepare business and individual tax returns, leveraging current tax laws to minimize client tax liabilities. • Provide proactive tax planning for 2025, advising clients on strategies to optimize tax outcomes and maintain compliance. • Consult on best business practices, including the implementation of AI tools to st

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Outsourced Controller

Wipfli CPA Firm

May 2024 - Dec 2024 (8 months)

• Led a remote accounting team, managing the scope of work, job time budgets, and job profitability to ensure efficient and effective operations.

Divisional Finance Director –

T5 Data Centers

May 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 8 months)

• Spearheaded the financial management of T5's largest international/domestic data center account, Apple Inc., ensuring robust financial oversight and strategic planning. • Enhanced and streamlined financial policies and procedures, resulting in scalable, timely, and more accurate external and internal financial reporting, including VAT tax reporting, international payroll, job cost analysis, and ad hoc reports. • Successfully implemented scalable process improvements, optimizing job cost processes and procedures for vendor purchase order raising, invoice payments, and customer billings. • Collaborated with Yardi consultants to develop customized job cost reports, integrating multiple ERP software modules: PO, AP & AR for more effective

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Controller

Diamond National Realty,

Feb 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years 3 months)

• Led the successful financial system conversion from QuickBooks Desktop to Yardi Voyager 7S, integrating CRM and enhancing financial reporting and operational efficiency • Developed and enforced robust accounting processes and procedures, including a checks and balances system, to maintain financial integrity. • Mentored and trained the accounting staff of 3 and 14 Property Managers on Yardi Voyager 7S, financial processes and procedures, ensuring a smooth transition and adherence to best practices. • Delivered comprehensive financial statement reporting for multiple consolidated and unconsolidated entities, providing clear and accurate financial insights. • Managed bank draws and financial reporting for bank loan covenants and privat

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Assistant Controller

Malon D. Mimms Company,

Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 (3 years)

• Directed the preparation of detailed account analyses, journal entries, and amortization schedules for loans and closings, ensuring precise and accurate financial records. • Executed month-end accounting tasks, including recording intercompany billings and performing comprehensive bank account reconciliations, to maintain financial integrity. • Reviewed and reconciled common area and management fees, taxes and insurance, utility, and bank accounts, ensuring compliance and accuracy. • Generated and analyzed cash reports to reconcile accounting system balances with bank account balances, providing clear financial insights. • Oversaw lease set up, daily cash deposits, tenant rent, and management fee billings, and biweekly payroll of 25

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Consultant

Alcala Change Consulting

Nov 2010 - Dec 2016 (6 years 2 months)

• Delivered comprehensive consulting and financial statement reporting and analysis, ensuring accurate month end accounting and general ledger reconciliation for 15 clients in business consulting, construction, equipment rental, real estate management, and lawn care space. • Advised clients on entity selection and new business setup, providing strategic guidance for optimal organizational structure. • Spearheaded the selection, setup, and organization of accounting systems, including QuickBooks support, enhancing clients' financial management capabilities. • Established robust accounting processes and procedures, including a checks and balances system, to maintain financial integrity. • Provided strategic advice on cash flow, debt stru

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