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Jackson Kon

Walnut Creek, California, United States,CA

Summary

Thrived in fast-paced result-driven intellectually challenging environment where often required skilled in time management and prioritization, outstanding capacity in staying level-headed under high-stressed situation, intellectually curious to discover hidden insights that drive behaviors, meticulous and methodical in approach, track record delivering high quality services. Overall strength includes great adaptability and unyielding tenacity to tackle challenges of any level in difficulty, and able to perspective taking on significance of a task in relation to the larger scheme. Frequently described by colleagues as someone good at infatuating its surrounding with his "I can do that" persona, a trustworthy individual required of minimal supervision, instructions, or trainings to get started.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Accounting Manager, Contracted Engagement

ProSomnus Sleep Technologies, Inc.
05.2023 - 09.2023
  • Assisted the newly IPO company in building a due-date-driven structured operations in accounting department: Streamlined close process and eliminated manual procedures replaced with best practices procedures to increase efficiency, accuracy and timely task completion.
  • Published close calendar with due dates of each tasks leading up to period end. This new tool instilled transparency and increase productivity by closely monitoring close progress for better resource allocation.
  • Installed audit ready schedules as template to standardized supporting documentation facilitating document portability, increase review efficiency, and dual purposed as new employee training.
  • Introduced well-designed internal controls that are required to be in compliance to SOX regulations, such as process SOPs, account reconciliations, formalized review sign offs, strict segregation of duties, and team member cross train, to name a few.
  • Managed junior team members of four by providing guidance on accounting procedures and set performance expectation with clear and attainable goals as basis for evaluation
  • Successfully delivered agreed upon primary engagement objective, shorten close cycle from 35 days to 15 with proper close binder documenting in detail all close procedures performed and reviewed. This improvement was a significant milestone in transformation from "processor" into "left and right hands" of CEO/CFO.

Senior Corporate Accountant

Twitch
07.2020 - 06.2023
  • Integrated member in close team responsible to perform all close tasks in accounting function of fixed asset and prepayment. Primary duties included drafting journal entries to record transactions and related supports for review, compile account balance analysis or roll forward schedule to provide basis for commenting on account flux, giving feedbacks collected through observations on close work-flow intended for openings in process enhancement, responding to SAP consultants' requests or assigned responsibilities, and assisting supervisor with ad hoc projects.
  • Served as Subject Matter Expert on accounting functions in fixed assets and prepayments. Without interrupting the close momentum, proactively scanning among close tasks for openings to increase performance bandwidth and to decrease level of efforts to get correct data needed to perform.
  • Consistently attained on-time completion performance for each period close. Responsible for processing and transforming large-volume of transactions data through a process-heavy environment while constant getting pressured for time and having to deal with recrudesce of time spent to hunt pertinent information often required research and request to personnel who were in-charge .
  • Served as a competent "floating" member as a back-up specialist who is deployed to support in areas needing extra resources to clear slowdowns before the bottleneck starts to threaten on due date to deliver financials.
  • Originated solutions that contribute to 90% increase in on-time completion rate for a process-heavy accounting function. This was accomplished through installation of soft-closing, which introduced a new cut-off date to up-shifting 5 days to close the accounting functions ahead of period end.
  • Effectuate a process improvement that largely contribute to 40% reduction in team's idle time attributed to the effect of a recurring hold-up of certain tasks, and the slowdown has impeded succeeding procedures from being cleared to start.
  • Assisted department-wide efforts in major accounting software upgrade to SAP including those of during pre-migration period, data cleansing during pre-migration stage, providing feedback after identified items that required modification as incorrect or missing steps, and those of during post-migration period, providing feedback after identified items that required modification as scripts in UAT performance received fail-to-execute status.

Senior G/L Consultant, Consulted Engagement

PagerDuty
01.2020 - 05.2020
  • Engineered process automation to data-mining G/L with Excel Pivot tables and Power Query for financial disclosures on certain transactions. This automation yielded roughly 50% reduction in time-saved to prepare.
  • Offered recommendations as a deliverable for completing an control assessment over the company's cash disbursement cycle for employee reimbursements. Most notably, the changes contributed to significant decrease in numbers of user complaint and settled a significant control deficiency noted in prior year audit.
  • Assisted in refreshing Policy published on company's intranet, and subsequently tasked in an agreed-upon procedures to provide a listing of issues noted on supporting documents to all leasing accounting entries posted during the adoption period

Accounting Manager / FD&A Manager

BitTorrent
02.2019 - 05.2019
  • Achieved timely financial reporting through diligent preparation and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual reports. Streamlined close cycle to eliminate duplicate efforts, implement best practices to foster strong segregation of duties and effective team commnications, established clear and attainable goals for team members, enabled transparency on status all close tasks.
  • Reduced discrepancies in financial data with thorough account reconciliations and adjustments. Increase team's efficiency and shorten close cycle by one week.
  • Collaborated with other departments to achieve accurate and prompt financial reporting, established outreach campaign to proactively collects status of budget spending and A/R collections, and revenue realization.
  • Led a team of accounting professionals in achieving department goals while fostering a positive work environment. Trained and mentored successor on various work flows and responsibilities.

Accounting Manager

Ayla Networks Inc.
06.2015 - 05.2018
  • Led close cycle and supervised a team staff
  • Assisted CFO and EVP Director of FInance with ad hoc analysis or projections model.
  • Tasked with handling revenue section, while supervised and reviewed matters involved in A/R, A/P, intangible asset, deferred assets &, liabilities, equity schedule, bank and investor loans, elimination, consolidation, account reconciliations, general ledger, journal entries, flux analysis and budget vs Actual.
  • Coordinated and successfully completed multiple external audits as well as various tax engagements, and led system upgrade to NetSuite and assumed various responsibilities that of an in-house system administrator.

Education

MBA - Business Administration, United States

Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA
05.2005

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Louisiana State University And A&M College
Baton Rouge, LA
12.2002

Skills

  • Organizational Skills
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Multitasking and Prioritization
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Customer Service Mindset and Creative Problem-solving
  • Analytical, Methodical and Critical Thinking
  • Effective and Clear Communication
  • US GAAP Basis Accounting
  • Full-cycle Month/Quarter End Accounting Clos (Collaborate / Individual Contributor)
  • General Ledger, End-to-End P2P, Revenue, O2C Cycle, Fixed Assets and Lease Accounting, Operating Budget, and Capital LT/ST Project
  • Forward Forecast, Variance Analysis on Budget/Forecast vs Actual
  • Account Reconciliation, Business Tax Returns Preparation, Interpretation on Tax Laws
  • IASB Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, Control Risk Assessments
  • ERP System Implementation, Business Process Modeling Language
  • Issue Tracking, Trend Report and Analysis
  • SOPs and Training Materials Development
  • Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook

Timeline

Accounting Manager, Contracted Engagement

ProSomnus Sleep Technologies, Inc.
05.2023 - 09.2023

Senior Corporate Accountant

Twitch
07.2020 - 06.2023

Senior G/L Consultant, Consulted Engagement

PagerDuty
01.2020 - 05.2020

Accounting Manager / FD&A Manager

BitTorrent
02.2019 - 05.2019

Accounting Manager

Ayla Networks Inc.
06.2015 - 05.2018

MBA - Business Administration, United States

Southeastern Louisiana University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Louisiana State University And A&M College

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