Karen Lou -Certified Public Accountant, Finance Manager, Seasoned Bookkeper

ABOUT ME

Scale and grow your business with more informed financial decisions. If you're looking for someone to give you the right figures, deliver exceptional results and help you analyze financial data on a business perspective to enable crafting of strategies for business growth, then you're looking at the right profile!

I am a Certified Public Accountant from the Philippines specializing in financial accounting and analysis (profitability, performance ratio, cash flow analyses), cash flow management,costing, bookkeeping and general accounting.

I work as a Finance and Accounting Manager of a group of companies in the Philippines involved in different line of businesses such as hotel & restaurant, real estate development and leasing, club membership and retail chain. I oversee the entire accounting and finance cycle from bookkeeping, financial reporting, financial management, risk and controls, payroll and taxation.

I also worked as the Accounting and Tax Group Head of a hospitality company where I handled different tax and compliance engagements from tax return filing to preparation of financial statements.

Worked and was a top-rated performer in one of the Big Four Accounting Firms - Ernst & Young Philippines (SGV & Co. - Cebu). I supervised teams handling various complex audit and tax engagements with several clients playing in different industries.

As to my educational background, I was consistently the ace of the class and graduated Valedictorian both in high school and elementary. I also had my BS Accountancy Degree in the most premiere university in my country, the University of the Philippines where I graduated as a Cum Laude. I passed the CPA Licensure Exam with distinction as the 20th placer of over 16,000 examinees.

I am highly committed in consistently delivering exceptional and superior quality results. My personal brand is being an extra-miler and a visionary. I constantly thinks of ways on how to improve and better the business, finance-wise and operations-wise. Yes, I am a finance woman but I don't just do numbers, I always look at things from a business perspective. My end goal is not just to report and interpret numbers but allow more meaningful and informed business decisions through these numbers.