Finance professional with 3+ years of experience leading high-impact finance programs, transforming complex datasets into actionable insights, driving accounting and finance solution support for global product launches, and ensuring compliance across various regulatory standards.

Proven ability to partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, Finance, and Controllership teams to reduce manual effort, achieve cost savings, and unlock business value through process optimization and automation.

Finance Program Manager

August 2022 - Present | Atlanta, GA

During his senior year of college, a recruiter from Google reached out to Enrique on LinkedIn to set up an interview. Following a successful set of interviews, he secured a job offer. He was given the option to move to either Atlanta or Chicago. After graduating from the University of Texas, Enrique moved from Austin to Atlanta to work at Google.

  • Level 4

    November 2024 - Present

    • Serve as program manager for the Ads Rewards Controllership team, driving the automation of $1B of incentive programs through strategic multinational collaboration with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Sales teams, enhancing operational efficiency

    • Communicate proactively with Controllership leadership weekly, providing timely updates on automation workstream progress and strategically identifying and planning for potential roadblocks or trade-offs to ensure critical timelines are met

    • Champion automation of accounting testing across all product areas by developing an MVP tool with Engineering, iterating based on feedback, and ensuring usability across testing environments, enabling self-serve capabilities and auto-validation of test cases

    • Prioritize and manage a portfolio of 10+ incentive automation initiatives, leveraging data-driven insights from materiality, audit risk, and cross-functional impact to maximize value delivery and compliance adherence

    • Analyze accounting transactions across 15 countries to validate tax rate changes by leveraging Structured Query Language (SQL) to query invoice transactions, ensuring continuous compliance with evolving local government regulations by working with Legal teams

    • Develop and present comprehensive quarterly incentive updates to senior Controllership leadership, highlighting achieved risk mitigation, advancements in payment streamlining, data transformation, and automation of first-of-kind incentive programs

    Level 3

    August 2022 - November 2024

    • Managed weekly bug resolution syncs with Accounting and Engineering stakeholders, producing timely resolution of over 30 critical bugs with a combined financial statement impact of $210M, ensuring data integrity and operational stability

    • Facilitated recurring meetings with program controllers to proactively identify and address roadblocks or emerging themes across incentive automation workstreams, driving continuous improvement and ensuring project momentum

    • Executed comprehensive accounting validation for 40 complex finance projects, leveraging SQL for deep data analysis of invoice journal entries, intercompany transactions, and GL balances to ensure robust oversight and data quality

    • Conducted the accounting testing efforts for the high-impact Croatia currency change project, ensuring the seamless transition and compliance of an annualized $120M in transactions from Kuna to Euro and maintaining operational continuity and compliance

    • Built new SQL accounting testing scripts in response to database migration by aligning with Controllership on key testing fields, joining tables, and implementing filters based on common inputs, reducing runtime by 67%

    • Led the financial user acceptance testing for a reseller entity, enabling the strategic expansion of Ads products into Vietnam with local billing, mitigating currency exchange exposure, and securing significant withholding tax benefits for customers

Private Equity Fund Controller Summer Analyst

June 2021 - August 2021 | Dallas, TX

Interning at Goldman Sachs was Enrique’s main goal after starting his education at the McCombs School of Business. He was turned down in both his freshman and sophomore years, but he never quit. He secured an internship offer his junior year to intern at his dream company.

  • June 2021 - August 2021

    • Managed adherence to stringent corporate, regulatory, and management reporting requirements for funds, facilitating comprehensive and accurate disclosures to diverse stakeholders

    • Track and monitor quarterly cash flows for 175 fund valuations, directly contributing to the accurate and timely development of financial statements for investors and forecasting of future cash flows

    • Conducted in-depth profit and loss analysis and reporting, identifying performance deviations and informing critical decisions on fund waterfall or clawback provisions to mitigate financial exposure

    • Leveraged a Structured Query Language (SQL) based automation system to streamline the creation of the FR Y-14Q regulatory report, achieving an annual reduction of approximately 1,000 FTE hours and enhancing data integrity

    • Validated the accuracy of capital and financial statement data for private equity funds through rigorous cross-checking, ensuring compliant and precise information delivery to investors

NOROC NATURALS

Data Analytics Intern

June 2020 - August 2020 | Austin, TX

Enrique’s internship at Noroc Naturals was unexpected. He was originally signed to intern at Under Armour in Baltimore, Maryland. However, that internship was cancelled due to the pandemic. He was fortunate enough to lean on his network and secure an opportunity with a great startup, Noroc Naturals.

  • June 2020 - August 2020

    • Leveraged data analysis to interpret sales performance across national regions, identifying critical data variances to inform customer product preferences and drive data-driven recommendations for operational adjustments

    • Developed and presented comprehensive data visualizations and performance dashboards to senior leadership, translating complex metrics into actionable insights that directly supported strategic decision-making and product optimization

    • Created and maintained robust pivot table structures by consolidating monthly data from over 200 grocery stores, creating a streamlined and organized view of key metrics essential for consistent reporting and analysis

    • Partnered cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, and Engineering teams to strategically prioritize internal project initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and optimizing resource allocation 

    • Delivered high-quality analytical insights and reporting with rapid turnaround, effectively navigating the fast-paced startup environment and demonstrating agility in supporting immediate business needs

Accounting Intern

May 2019 - August 2019 | San Antonio, TX

HOLT CAT was Enrique’s first internship. He was determined to secure an internship for the summer following his freshman year of college. However, after hundreds of rejections due to lack of experience, Enrique was fortunate enough to land an internship with HOLT CAT in his hometown. He is incredibly grateful for the chance that the company took on a college freshman.

  • May 2019 - August 2019

    • Streamlined accounts payable processes by cross-referencing vendor statements against invoices, significantly improving the accuracy of financial records and reducing discrepancies

    • Resolved a backlog of over 7,000 open receipts, systematically organizing invoices and enhancing the efficiency of payment processing

    • Identified and deactivated 750 inactive vendor accounts, proactively preventing erroneous payments and strengthening financial controls

    • Contributed to a more accurate financial overview by meticulously reviewing and inputting both current and past-due invoices, directly supporting informed decision-making

    • Improved data integrity and operational efficiency through comprehensive analysis and clean-up of vendor accounts and open receipts, ensuring compliance and fiscal responsibility