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    Richard Won

    Richard Won

    Large and small public company experience, joined Yelp as their 1st accounting person. My last three start-ups completed successful IPO's (YELP, SFLY, SHOP).

    Finance/Accounting San Francisco San Jose State Univer...
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    Experience
    Won Financial Consulting
    Won Financial Consulting
    Founder, Consultant 2012 - Present (almost 14 years)
    Assisting start-ups in setting up financials, treasury, staffing, operations efficiency, and advisory needs.
    Yelp
    Exit
    Yelp
    Director, Head of Accounting Operations and Policy 2008 - 2012 (over 4 years)
    Built a global finance organization to a successful IPO in Mar 2012.
    YourMechanic
    Exit
    YourMechanic
    Director, Finance and Administration 2015 - 2016 (over 1 year)
    Built and scale the finance organization to bring YourMechanic to a community near you.
    Heading finance, treasury, legal, human resources, & facilities.
    Nextdoor
    Nextdoor
    Controller (interim) 2016 (4 months)
    Shutterfly
    Shutterfly
    Accounting Manager 2006 - 2008 (about 1 year)
    Joined post IPO, completed two public year-ends before joining Yelp.
    Shopping.com
    Exit
    Shopping.com
    Corporate Reporting Manager 2004 - 2006 (over 2 years)
    PreIPO, SOX implementation, eBay migration, global close 14 legal entities by day one.
    Department of Treasury - IRS
    Department of Treasury - IRS
    Internal Auditor 1990 - 1992 (about 2 years)
    Conducted service audits for all west coast IRS regional and field offices: Examination, Collections, Taxpayer Service, etc...
    Founder
    Won Financial Consulting
    Employee
    Adobe Systems, Visa, Shutterfly, Nextdoor, YourMechanic, Yelp, Shopping.com, Berry Appleman & Leiden, Department of Treasury - IRS, Extend
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    Incubator
     
    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
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    About
    Achievements

    I have worked at Yelp, Shutterfly, and Shopping.com when they were all start-ups and have built accounting departments and scaled them to public companies. I have also created financials from infancy stage for both YourMechanic & Bossa Nova Robotics to be audit ready.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Self Starter Recruiting and Team Building Financial Accounting Financial Systems
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area
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