Kyle Baker

Senior Director of Accounting @ Portland Trail Blazers | Certified Public Accountant

United States

About

At the intersection of sports and finance, my leadership as the Senior Director of Accounting with the Portland Trail Blazers harnesses a robust background in audit and compliance, underscored by my CPA credentials. With over a decade in finance, my previous role as Financial Controller at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital honed my expertise in Sarbanes-Oxley Act procedures, ensuring transparency and trust. Our team thrives on meticulous financial stewardship, and I am committed to elevating the fiscal operations of the organization. My approach integrates a passion for accuracy with a strategic vision that aligns with our collective goals, fostering an environment of integrity and performance.

Experience

  • Senior Director of Accounting at Portland Trail Blazers @ the Rose Quarter
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Financial Controller at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital
    Aug 2021 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Financial Accounting Manager at Avangrid Renewables
    Jan 2021 - Aug 2021 · 8 mos

  • PwC (2 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Manager
      Jul 2020 - Jan 2021 · 7 mos

    • Manager
      Jul 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs

      • Licensed CPA with experience in public accounting providing professional services to both public and private clients in a variety of industries including retail and consumer products, industrial manufacturing, power and utilities, wholesalers/distributors, construction and entertainment. • Facilitate and execute the completion of integrated audits of publicly held companies, including compliance with US-GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 work and review of the 10-Q, 10-K, and other SEC filings for proper application of SEC reporting requirements. • Provide professional audit services under US GAAS and PCAOB standards to a variety of companies ranging from start-ups to SEC filers. • Involved in business development, recruiting, mentoring and professional development • Representative examples of Kyle’s engagement experience includes serving companies with revenues up to $3 billion, experience with acquisitions and divestitures, significant experience with complex accounting and auditing including inventory, goodwill, long-lived tangible and intangible assets and business valuation models as well as extensive project management experience.

  • PwC Switzerland (Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Manager
      Jul 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

      • Licensed CPA with experience in public accounting providing professional services to both public and private international clients, including foreign-private issuers listed on the NASDAQ, Euronext and SIX exchange in a variety of industries including online retail, biopharmaceutical and life-sciences. Facilitate and execute the completion of integrated and non-integrated audits of publicly held companies, including compliance with US-GAAP, IFRS, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 work and review/audit of the 6-K, 20-F, and other SEC filings for proper application of SEC reporting requirements. • Provide professional audit services under US GAAS, PCAOB, ISA, US GAAP, IFRS and Swiss CO standards to a variety of companies ranging from private, clinical stage start-ups to public filers. • Involved in business development, recruiting, mentoring and professional development • Representative examples of Kyle’s engagement experience includes managing multiple teams to serve numerous global foreign-private issuers with signficant experience in relation to implementation of SOX 404 and understanding compliance with SEC reporting requirements for newly listed, or pre-IPO companies.

    • Assistant Manager
      Sep 2017 - Jun 2018 · 10 mos