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Regina Laessle: Senior Accounting Consultant – Construction Focus (Triangle)  

Regina is an incoming member of Vaco’s team of professional consultants, highly referred by one of our team members. She is an experienced accounting professional with a strong background in multiple industries, including construction and renewables, and has supported global organizations. Most recently, Regina worked with FHI 360, managing day-to-day accounting operations, overseeing general ledger preparation, operational accounting, and supporting budgeting and forecasting activities across country offices. She led year-end closing, field audits, and government expense analysis, ensuring compliance and timely financial reporting. At Cypress Creek Renewables, Regina led all financial activities, focusing on cash forecasting, revenue recognition, cost accounting, and financial reporting.

She partnered with the EVP of business units and the project finance group to track project progress and manage vendor payment terms to improve cash flow. Regina also prepared a weekly rolling cash forecast and managed AR, AP, and purchase orders. Previously, at Lend Lease, Regina worked as a Finance Manager, overseeing project creation, maintenance, and profit recognition for the Americas region's insurance program. She also managed P&L consolidation for operations across several cities and was responsible for implementing project costing, project controls, and MIS systems to ensure streamlined financial management. Regina initially joined Lend Lease as a project accountant during her first tenure.

Systems: Deltek Cost Point, Xero, Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision), Concur, Salesforce, Oracle R12, Sage Intacct, Prolog, Procore, Power BI, Advanced Excel, PNC and Wells Fargo Online Banking 

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Megan Hudson, CPA: Senior Accounting Consultant (Triangle) 

Recent addition to the team, as a seasoned accounting and financial reporting professional with experience spanning various industries, including public accounting, non-profit, investment accounting, and public company reporting. Expertise includes tax preparation, financial data analysis and presentation, month-end accounting and reporting, and process documentation. Most recently, she worked with Accenture, where she managed a 50-person financial reporting project for a publicly traded financial services firm. In this role, she generated and reviewed disclosures for investment-related financial statement disclosures as required by GAAP, entering them into Workiva for public filings. She also contributed to the implementation testing and documentation of new investment portfolio software, including writing test scripts, leading the testing team, and executing system implementation tests, working closely with the client’s third-party consultant firm.

Megan’s prior experience includes performing monthly investment portfolio accounting closes, reconciling ledgers and sub-ledgers, and analyzing large investment portfolio lot-level data for accuracy and completeness using advanced Excel skills. Earlier in her career, she processed capital calls and distributions for multiple private equity investments across many entities, managing wire requests and coordinating cash receipts with the cash management department. Megan also has experience working with boards and audit committees of over 20 nonprofit entities, providing updates on investment portfolio results, and serving as a senior associate in tax at Forvis, where she prepared and reviewed tax returns and tax provisions for financial services sector companies.

Systems: Workiva/Wdesk, Peoplesoft Financials, QuickBooks, SAP, Clearwater Analytics, Aladdin by BlackRock, CCH ProSystem Fx, Advanced Excel 

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Aaron Gillingham, CPA: Senior Accountant (Triangle) 

Experienced Vaco consultant with over five years of accounting experience in both audit and GL accounting. Recently wound down a long-term project with a private equity backed, global manufacturing company where he reconciled AP, AR, fixed assets, inventory, prepaids, payroll accounts. Worked with the payroll manager to streamline the payroll entry process, standardized reconciliations and added applicable support, and wrote up SOPs for all senior accountant processes. Previously supported an electrical supply company with an AP clean-up project after a system implementation resulted in a 6k backlog of invoices. Previous audit experience including reviewing audit plans, preparing audit sections, and overseeing the work of audit staff.

Systems: SAP, Epicor, Sage X3, QuickBooks, Avalara, MS Excel  

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Tony Mikesell: Senior FP&A Consultant (Triangle) 

Experienced Vaco Consultant, winding down project supporting private equity backed service company with building FP&A function, including reporting, KPI development, and budget innovation. Tony is supporting several healthcare companies with special projects, implementing best practices in corporate finance, including improved budgeting, and forecasting processes, and reporting. Recently helped a venture capital backed software company build a financial model and complete diligence on a sell-side transaction to private equity. He has created a 5-year financial model (IS, BS, CF) used by the private equity firm and investment bank to complete acquisition of a 2x larger company, while also creating multi-year business case models for strategic investments, acquisitions, and partnerships.

Systems: Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Adaptive Planning, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Power BI   

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Jordan Williams: Accounts Payable Consultant (Triangle)  

Experienced Vaco consultant with over 5 years of progressive accounting experience. Currently winding down at a publicly traded manufacturing company supporting high volume AP processing, payment runs, vendor set-up, and vendor statement reconciliations. Created an electronic filing system on the company’s shared drive as the company didn’t have a previous formalized saving system for audit and tracking purposes, instead relying on printed copies when available.

Previously supported a healthcare IT company where he joined the AP team in processing a high volume of invoices. Deep experience in accounts payable, including full-cycle AP processing, vendor statement reconciliation, vendor management, and check runs. Successful as either an individual contributor or team lead. Additional experience as a P2P system administrator, providing system clean-up and optimization, user training, and technical support. Previous experience with billing and payment posting.

Systems: NetSuite, SAP, Dynamics NAV, Ivalua, Successware, MS Excel 

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DeAnn Moore: Operational & Systems Accounting Consultant (Triangle)  

Seasoned Vaco Consultant, winding down at a publicly traded manufacturing company after supporting through year-end, including reconciling the disbursement account, preparing intercompany statements, preparing journal entries, and reconciling credit card transactions feeding to Concur. Previously supported a private equity backed healthcare company. Created and implemented SOPs for AP and T&E, cleaned up vendor accounts, and supported month-end close. Previously helped a client with an SAP implementation.

Handled master data cleansing & migration loads, financial data migration prep & loads, developed business user profiles & assignment, and defined SAP system structure for financial reporting purposes. Previously stepped in at a local non-profit company filling in to support with year-end and audit while Vaco placed the permanent finance director. She has supported Vaco on no less than 17 projects over the years and has extensive experience with AP, billing, statutory reporting, and month-end close. DeAnn has strong system skills and has supported multiple implementations including full-cycle SAP deployments.

Systems: SAP, Dynamics GP, NetSuite, Bill.com, Blackline, Visio Professional, and Excel 

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Janelle Hall, CPA: Senior Tax Consultant (Triangle)  

Experienced Vaco Consultant, supporting several part-time projects for private equity-backed companies needing short-term, ad-hoc tax assistance. Recently completed project with networking company with private equity backed networking company during Tax Manager’s maternity leave, reviewing tax returns and K-1’s. 10+ years of public accounting experience providing tax compliance and tax consulting services across a variety of industries and entity types, both public and private.

She has managed all aspects of tax compliance and advisory services including coordinating specialists in areas of M&A, SALT, ITAX, researching and documenting tax positions, recommending potential tax-saving ideas to management based on tax law changes, preparing, and reviewing Federal, multi-state and local business income tax returns, quarterly estimates, extensions, and other periodic payments. Janelle is experienced with C Corporation (including consolidated Corporations), S Corporations and Partnerships. Janelle has extensive experience preparing and reviewing annual and quarterly tax provision workpapers for both public and private companies to ensure alignment with ASC 740 and relevant tax laws.

Systems: CCH ProSystems fx Tax, CCH Axcess Tax, OneSource Income Tax, OneSource Tax Provision, Oracle, Salesforce, Advanced Excel.

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Brandon Serrano: Experienced Accounting Consultant (Triangle)   

Experienced Vaco consultant, available on a full-time basis as he is winding down a project where he is supporting an energy solutions company with general accounting and month-end support, including preparing financial statements, assisting the budget process, analyzing cost variances, and performing reconciliations. Experienced staff accountant with five years’ experience in AP, AR, intercompany transactions, fixed asset accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, property tax returns, budgeting, 10Ks and 10Qs. Previously stepped into the revenue department of a private equity backed software company. Helped with AR and collections clean-up project resulting from a large acquisition. Prior experience supporting integrations.

Systems: NetSuite, IFS, Intacct, Dynamics GP, Sage, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Ariba, Zora, and Excel. 

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Anthony Maglio: Senior Accounting Consultant (Triangle)    

Experienced Vaco Consultant, completing project with a global pharmaceutical manufacturer, managing and improving Accounts Payable (AP) processes for a team of 20+ in Manila. He played a key role in resolving issues related to the company’s SAP implementation, reducing the invoice backlog from over 14,000 to under 5,000. On his second Vaco engagement, he supported a publicly traded life sciences client with interim accounting manager duties, handling accruals, fixed assets, reconciliations, and working with IT on capitalizable expenses. His first Vaco project involved supporting a private equity-backed disaster recovery firm, focusing on account reconciliation and audit preparation.

Previously, as Assistant Controller at Loparex, he led SAP implementation and managed the month-end close for a $600M manufacturing company. He also served as Controller at a large public company, improving month-end processes and overseeing SAP’s FICO module. At Apex Tool Group, Anthony managed global fixed asset accounting, led asset revaluations, and supported acquisitions. He has strong costing and project accounting experience, is an SAP super user, and has participated in Six Sigma process improvements.

Systems: SAP, Hyperion, Oracle, OneStream Consolidation and Account Reconciliation, Blackline Account Reconciliation, Concur Travel and Expense 

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May Cheung, CPA: Senior Accounting Consultant (Triangle)    

Experienced Vaco Consultant, with competencies in monthly close, reporting, and revenue recognition. Most recently, May supported a Vaco project at a private equity-backed software company, handling US and Canada sales taxes, UK VAT returns, and posting daily cash receipts into Sage Intacct. Previously, she worked with an energy storage system company, testing processes within NetSuite (order-to-cash, journal entries, and accounts receivable), creating process documentation, and collaborating with the treasury team on monthly cash flow projections while streamlining the forecasting process by automating reports in NetSuite.

Previously supported large financial services company with subsidiary reporting and investment accounting, implementing streamlining processes. Prior to joining Vaco, spent several years at Cisco, where she gained experience in ASC 606, intercompany accounting, budget and portfolio management. Prior to Cisco, she spent several years consulting, with experience in systems implementation, policies and procedures implementation, and internal controls/SOX.

Systems: NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Workday, QuickBooks, Oracle R12, JD Edwards, MAS 200, Hyperion, Essbase, Advanced Excel 

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