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Team Adhoc Los Angeles 1055 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 500 Pasadena, CA 91106 | 626.788.1055
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Finance & Accounting
Finance & Accounting
We provide a variety of finance and accounting solutions including:
- Technical Accounting
- On-call consulting
- SEC assistance
- Implementation, analysis and assessment
- Lease Accounting
- Data gathering, abstracting leases, implementing technology solutions
- Revenue recognition consulting/new standard compliance
Finance & Accounting
- Financial planning & analysis
- Financial accounting & reporting
- Interim or “gap” financial management
- Post-Merger financial integration
- Financial systems implementation
- Project management
We provide a variety of finance and accounting solutions including:
- Technical accounting
Whether it’s preparing compliant financial statements for an initial public offering or properly recording a business combination resulting from a merger or acquisition, accounting can be complex. It often requires the focused attention of professionals with significant expertise and seasoned judgment. Even the day-to-day demands of accounting and finance personnel involve considerable effort and attention. We can provide ongoing technical accounting and financial reporting services, including:- On-call technical accounting consulting
- Assistance with SEC comment letter responses
- Assistance with implementation of accounting standards, including the new revenue recognition standard
- In-depth reviews of technical accounting memoranda and conclusions
- Assessment of current accounting policies and assistance in optimizing policy decisions
- Spearheading the organization’s preparation of Form 10-Q and Form 10-K
- Lease Accounting Consulting
- Lease accounting is experiencing revolutionary changes across all industries. The new ASC 842 standard brings a wide range of implications across most organizations, and will require most operating leases to be reflected on the balance sheet, which by itself is a sizeable task. The data and systems challenges ASC 842 will bring to companies are significant and, without adequate planning and preparation, may be overwhelming. Given the time commitment required to implement the standard and the level of complexity involved, companies should start gathering data, abstracting leases, and selecting and implementing technology solutions soon to avoid challenges down the road. We can help you manage the following
- Data gathering
- Abstracting leases
- Implementing technology solutions
- Revenue recognition consulting
- This is a proven approach to the implementation and management of a complex new standard. Preparing for and complying with the new revenue recognition standard may be more challenging than many companies realize. The standard is complex and represents a revolutionary change in accounting, affecting both internal and external perceptions of a company’s performance. Adoption and implementation of the new standard also provides an opportunity to consider strategic operational issues such as improving efficiency, enhancing information systems, and strengthening processes and controls. We have developed an integrated approach to enable the timely and efficient adoption of the new standard. Cross-functional teams provide the technical accounting expertise as well as the technology and tools needed to support both implementation and ongoing governance.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team uses a comprehensive and disciplined approach to mitigate financial, operational and technological risks.
Enterprise Risk Assessments Services include:
- Identifying desired risk tolerance.
- Performing an entity-wide risk assessment.
- Assessing current state of risk management.
- Reviewing gaps in the current vs. desired state.
- Developing and implementing risk management response.
- Enterprise Risk Management.
- Designing and implementing ERM program according to your organization’s strategy, objectives and risk tolerance.
- Developing continuous monitoring and communication tools.
- Educating and empowering employees to execute and maintain the ERM program.
Internal Audit
Whether you’re an independent small to mid-size company or a multi-billion dollar publicly-held entity, you’re expected to keep up with it all. That’s where we come in. From detecting and deterring fraud to monitoring business operations, our customized internal audit solutions will meet your ever-changing needs.
With specific industry knowledge and relevant certifications (including CPA, CIA, and CISA), Team Adhoc’s audit professionals can help in the following ways.
- Internal audit co-sourcing, fraud & forensic auditing
- Providing access to skilled audit resources without permanently expanding staff
- Allowing audit directors to focus on core processes
- Enabling immediate response to special audit requests
- Internal audit outsourcing
- Analyzing strengths and weaknesses of current internal audit function
- Increasing efficiency of internal audits
- Resolving complex financial disputes
- Assisting in fraud investigation
- Providing expertise and assistance for restated financial reporting
SOX, Regulatory Compliance & Reporting
We understand that in today’s increasingly complex regulatory standards require the design and monitoring of very detailed enterprise governance procedures. The implementation and maintenance of effective compliance programs is a key challenge for nearly every company. Information Security and operation assessment based on established standards. Our professionals will provide an independent IT process and controls assessment utilizing the latest control framework (i.e. ISO, FFIEC, CoBit etc). Due to our vast experience, we can provide, not only best practices, but practical process and control solutions to address your IT risks and gaps within your organization. We have experiences with both custom and off the shelf applications in the areas of network, host, application and data security along with software development and acquisition. Doing so in a cost-efficient manner is a business priority for all. Team Adhoc can assist you with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Model Audit Rule (MAR) solutions meeting both finance and IT requirements and include:
- Project management
- Risk assessment and documentation
- Controls testing, monitoring and reporting
- Multi-country coordination
- Acquisition integration
- Deficiency resolution
- SOX / MAR program efficiency reviews and best practices
- Independent IT Process and Controls, Information Security and operation assessment based on established standards (i.e. ISO, FFIEC, CoBit etc)
BSA/AML Compliance
BSA/AML Compliance Services:
Team Adhoc provides banks and other financial institutions with on-site and off-site BSA/AML and lending compliance staff augmentation needs.
- Compliance program assessment.
- Policies and procedures.
- Independent testing.
- Internal audit co-sourcing.
- Fraud & forensic auditing.
- Enterprise risk management.
- Audit committee advisory.
BSA/AML Compliance
Team Adhoc provides banks and other financial institutions with on-site and off-site BSA/AML and lending compliance staff augmentation needs. Our network of highly seasoned consultants has worked with multiple institutions: many of which are subject to regulatory enforcement actions, with the necessary broad insight to navigate complex compliance initiatives. Their areas of expertise range from KYC remediation to lookback projects, to assisting institutions with monthly alert drops, case escalations, timely SAR filing, client on-boarding, KYC reviews, and sanctions screening. This experience allows them to pivot between multiple projects to carry out concurrent initiatives. Team Adhoc is run by compliance subject matter experts: each with over a decade of hands-on compliance experience. As such, they can better understand each financial institution’s unique needs in granular detail and pull from their existing network, ensuring the quality of work from each candidate, without burdening clients with unproven candidates or those with a skill set that fails to correlate to the specific need at hand.
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering compliance reaches into virtually all corners of the financial services industry. The plethora of penalties resulting from non-compliance are too high to be taken lightly. Team Adhoc’s BSA/AML Consulting Practice is based on experience and demonstrated expertise. We deliver those services in a customized, measurable way to meet your needs.
Advisory
Team Adhoc’s AML practice is the cusp of a multi-decade collaboration between the AML industry’s leading advisory consultants who have worked closely with financial institutions, regulators and the nation’s top AML advisory firms to help strengthen AML programs since 2003. Unlike competitor firms whose field experience is limited or predates the current AML environment, our management team has extensive and current on-site experience helping retail and commercial banks, brokerage firms, payment services/network operators and credit card issuers hedge AML risk and strengthen internal controls as part of several highly publicized FRB, OCC and NYDFS enforcement actions. Our management team not only possesses the requisite BSA/AML subject matter expertise, it goes beyond evaluating and understanding the gaps between the current and desired state of an AML program in a constantly evolving regulatory environment. In turn, we can assist with the execution of the necessary steps to remediate these gaps, as we have done for over 30 clients in the past 13 years.
Temporary Staff Augmentation
By leveraging our existing global network of thousands of AML consultants in diverse compliance areas, our firm masters the tools to seamlessly facilitate crucial temporary staff needs. Achieving mandatory milestones under tight regulatory time constraints is not accomplished by the incursion of a team unexposed to the industry. Team Adhoc is proud to present proficient industry experts to fulfill myriad compliance challenges. By working extensively with peer institutions, our firm will aid in efforts to remain ahead of the curve by leveraging industry best practices before they become industry laws.
Areas of Expertise
Our firm leadership and extensive network have assisted financial institutions within the following subject matter areas:
Enterprise-wide BSA/AML Risk Assessment
- Business line risk
- Enterprise-wide risk associated with products, services, customers and geographies
- Methodology for identifying and quantifying the level of BSA/AML risk associated with various categories of customers
- Periodic refreshment
- Comprehensive documentation
- Enhanced OFAC screening
- Improved methodology for assessing OFAC risks
- Enhanced policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the OFAC Regulations
Governance/Board Oversight
- Governance structure with clear lines of responsibility
- Clearly defined roles and responsibilities for senior management to oversee compliance with the BSA/AML Requirements and the OFAC Regulations
- Measures to improve the information reported to the board of directors and its designated compliance committee regarding compliance with BSA/AML Requirements and OFAC Regulations
- Assessment of the qualifications of the Bank’s BSA/AML and OFAC compliance staff and the adequacy of staffing levels
Customer Due Diligence/Enhanced Due Diligence
- Determining the appropriate level of enhanced due diligence
- Special measures for particularly high-risk customer types, such as MSBs
- Addressing systematic deficiencies within customer due diligence processes
- Policies and procedures for gathering CDD/EDD information for new and existing customers
- Methodology for assigning risk levels to the bank’s customer base that assesses appropriate factors such as type of customer, geographic activity, and expected account activity
- Enterprise-wide customer visibility
- CIP procedures and process execution
- Verification of the identity, source of wealth, and business activities of the customer
- Gathering and documenting anticipated customer transaction activity within various product lines
- Identification, documentation and screening of accountholders and significant control parties
- PEP risk
- Negative news screening
- Assessing the AML supervisory regime and identifying AML risk associated with the jurisdictions in which customers are domiciled, do business within or transact with
- Periodic review frequency and tracking
- Special requirements for correspondent banking relationships including USA PATRIOT Act Certification and Wolfsberg Questionnaire evaluation/tracking and assessment of risk associated with banking customers’ AML programs.
- Evaluation of the automated CDD/EDD systems of record
Suspicious Activity Monitoring and Reporting
- Addressing systematic deficiencies within transaction monitoring systems
- A well-documented methodology for establishing monitoring rules and thresholds.
- Effective monitoring of customer accounts and transactions
- Measures to ensure escalation of significant matters to, and documented oversight by, senior management
- Procedures that indicate the tools or processes to be used in identifying and monitoring high-risk transactions
- Procedures for investigating and resolving transactions identified as unusual or suspicious
- Procedures for ensuring sound use of quantitative analysis to support the proper design, implementation and use of models to generate appropriate alerts
- Processes by which BSA/AML control decisions are escalated to risk management
- Trends in unusual or suspicious activity that have been identified and reported
- Quality control/quality assurance
- Comprehensive and timely alert clearing and SAR reporting
- Timely and accurate responses to 314(a) and 314(b) requests
BSA Independent Testing and Audit
- Formal processes to track and report on remediation efforts to strengthen the BSA/AML compliance program
- Testing of the adequacy of internal controls designed to ensure compliance with the BSA and its implementing regulations
- A risk-based approach that focuses transactional testing on higher-risk accounts or geographic areas of concern
- An annual audit with report to the board of directors or a committee assessing the condition of the enterprise wide BSA/AML program and opining on the four pillars of the BSA/AML program
BSA Training
- Development and implementation of a specialized training program for all operational and supervisory personnel responsible for suspicious activity monitoring, investigating, and reporting
- Strategies for mandatory attendance, the frequency of training, procedures and timing for updating training programs and materials, and the method for delivering training
Historical Transaction Reviews (“look-backs”) and CDD/EDD Remediation
- Evaluate scope of engagement
- Provide projections regarding production analytics
- Provide volume staff
HR Services
Human Resources Services
We offer variety of services in HR and HR outsourcing;
Need help hiring?
Whether you need to hire your next HR leader, C-level executive, or high-performing team members, Team Adhoc’s HR’s recruiting team can help make it happen, fast. We partner with rapidly growing organizations in industries such as government contracting, not-for-profit, trade associations, property management, real estate, construction, IT, finance and creative. As a team of HR and Recruiting professionals, we specialize in HR & recruiting positions and we also have extensive experience in sales & marketing, accounting & finance, operations, administrative, technology, as well as other fields. We can also supply direct hire, to interim talent acquisition/HR candidates as well.
Information Technology
Information Technology
Technology must work seamlessly for business to function efficiently. Our technology professionals have deep knowledge and expertise to keep your technology running smoothly. Staffing solutions include:
- IT architecture
- End user services
- Business analytics & data management
- Information risk management & security
- IT operations & infrastructure
Steven's Bio
Steven Baltierra
Communications Coordinator
As Team Adhoc’s communications coordinator you can find Steven leading the marketing campaigns for Team Adhoc as well as social media content. He is also a fellow recruiter working alongside Annelise making magic happen (Unicorn Hunter) Steven has a strong background in communications with Arroyo Seco Saints Baseball Organization as a Communications he assisted in giving the association a strong social media presence. What sets Steven apart from the rest is that he has a true passion for connecting and networking with individuals and conveying our mission as a company.
Azusa Pacific University BA, Journalism and Communications
Annelise's Bio
Annelise Lee
Talent Coordinator
Annelise is a talent coordinator for Team Adhoc. Reporting directly to the CEO and coordinating closely with the Business Development team, she acquires talent in areas ranging from Accounting/Finance, BSA/AML, Banking Compliance, IT, and more. Don’t let her humble presence fool you, she is the ultimate Unicorn Hunter.
University of California, Riverside.
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Management Concentration
Randi's Bio
Randi Martinez
Human Resources and Operations Manager
As our Human Resources and Operations Manager, Randi is known as the heart of the operation and has been with Team Adhoc almost the day we opened. For several years now Randi has been the go-to person to support our employees with benefits, payroll or anything our team needs. They look at Randi as a Mama bear and she knows she has our best interests at heart. Prior to working with Team Adhoc, Randi worked in Media Sales for Univision (a major US Spanish Television Network). She started with Team Adhoc in 2016 as Executive Assistant to the CEO. As the only office employee at the time, she began to run the back office, learning every aspect of the business
Cal State University, Long Beach, BS Business Administration.
Anthony's Bio
Anthony Nguyen
Account Executive
As our Account Executive, Anthony has over 10 years of business development experience in industries such as: Information Technology, Branding, Promotional Products, Hospitality, Retail, Staffing and more . He’s worked with Fortune 500 companies to small and medium sized businesses. He has a very consultative approach and an amazing ear to qualify, understand and assist. Dedicated and innovative Account Executive with a passion for people, new challenges and identifying ways to positively impact those around him. He’s an excellent communicator who can plan, prioritize, and complete tasks within a fast-paced deadline-driven environment. This ability reflects positively on business productivity, employee experience, and customer satisfaction.
San Jose University, BS Business Administration, emphasis Marketing
Elliot’s Bio
Elliot Miller
Managing Director
Elliot Miller supports Team Adhoc’s Financial Services Risk Mitigation and Compliance recruitment practice. Elliot brings over 13 years of consulting expertise to Team Adhoc. His incredible attention to detail and subject matter expertise makes him invaluable in supporting our clients with enterprise solutions. Elliot has assisted financial institutions strengthen their BSA/AML program through lookback engagements, BAU transaction monitoring, client onboarding, CDD/EDD remediation, enterprise-wide AML program assessment and development/implementation of BSA/AML policies and procedures. He also worked as an investigator on Wall Street in the Greater New York area, Miami, and Chicago. His expertise was leveraged within the transaction monitoring space assisting the “Big 4” public accounting firms with numerous lookback efforts and transaction monitoring systems implementation for both domestic and foreign retail and commercial banks. Additionally, Elliot has assisted with efforts under direct bank management within the client onboarding/KYC space for corporate and investment banks.
Babson College, Bachelor of Science, Business Administration/Finance
Regina's Bio
Regina Voarino
Executive Director of Business Development
As Executive Director of Business Development, Regina is responsible for Team Adhoc’s sales and marketing. Regina is a seasoned professional and has successfully handled business development at the C-Suite level roles for over 20 years. Prior to joining Team Adhoc, Regina had extensive experience in multiple verticals and industries in business. These include: Hospitality, Nanotechnology, Industrial Supply Chain, IT Technology, Executive Staffing and Real Estate for such companies as OYO, Desertfire Online, Metashield, HD Supply, Cybersettle, Inc., Addison Group and eTeam.
In addition, Regina had extensive experience in the political and government arena. She began her career as a Legislative Assistant in Washington D.C. on Capitol Hill; served on the gubernatorial level as a Legislative Liaison and continued on her path well as Deputy Press Secretary for a United States Senator. She also worked as a Legislative Consultant in the firm Copeland, Hatfield, Lowery and Jacquez, a prominent Washington D.C. lobbying firm, which represented cities, municipalities, public and private companies.
Wheaton College, BA Political Science
Columbia University. MA, Legislative Procedures/Public Policy
Nancy’s Bio
Nancy Nip Rouguine
President, CEO & President
Nancy is the CEO and President of Team Adhoc. Nancy brings over 20 years of experience in accounting and finance across multiple industries including entertainment, financial services, not-for-profit, retail, and healthcare. She specialized in streamlining and standardizing processes within a shared service environment. She has background in system implementations (SAP/PeopleSoft) budget and forecasting, accounting, balance sheet recovery projects and Unified Chart of Accounts. Nancy’s impressive work history includes leading national consulting firms–IPSA International and Accretive Solutions, additionally she has worked with Kaiser Permanente, Warner Bros, The Walt Disney Studios, Danone International, and Ticketmaster.
Nancy leads Team Adhoc’s internal team, serving our clientele with staff augmentation resource needs in all aspects of finance & accounting, IT, governance risk & compliance, enterprise-wide BSA/AML risk assessment, governance/board oversight, customer due diligence/enhanced due diligence, suspicious activity monitoring & reporting, BSA independent testing & auditing, BSA training and historical transaction reviews and CDD/EDD remediation.
What sets Nancy apart from most leaders in the staffing and consulting industry is her compassion for, and fierce dedication to, her teams, clients and consultants. Her passion is contagious. Nancy is a relationship builder through and through. She inspires trust, loyalty and authenticity in every relationship she’s built over the past decade. Nancy fosters respect and collaboration and it’s her collegial spirit that resonates throughout Team Adhoc and into our client environments. She leads by example and works tirelessly to ensure both internal and external clients are always being taken care of.
Nancy holds a BS, Business Administration, Finance from USC, Marshall School of Business.