Orange County Business Journal: Women In Finance 2024
July 22, 2024
Uyen Tran, the vice president, GL Accounting Manager at First Financial Equipment Leasing, has made an exceptional impact on the company’s accounting department over the past year through her remarkable leadership skills. Under her strategic guidance, the team has achieved unprecedented success, transforming a department with high turnover into one that is highly efficient, effective, and exceptionally skilled.
When she assumed the role of controller in May 2023, following the departure of the previous controller, she was able to produce financial statements in only 40% of the time it originally took. Tran’s dedication to fostering a cohesive and professional team has resulted in significant enhancements to our financial processes, leading to a remarkable increase in efficiency and accuracy. Her leadership has not only raised the bar for our entire company but also inspired her team to strive for excellence consistently in all our endeavors.
Tran’s significant improvements to our month-end closing process, a 60% increase in efficiency, have profoundly impacted our company’s success. Additionally, she developed a robust Balance Sheet reconciliation process that added 44 more General Ledger accounts for our team to reconcile, an increase of 51% from the number of accounts that were reconciled in the previous fiscal year. By streamlining the production of financial statements and introducing new reconciliation and documentation processes, she has further enhanced efficiency and internal control. Tran’s exceptional value to our company is immeasurable, and her contributions have been pivotal in driving our success.
Uyen Tran
Vice President,
GL Accounting Manager
714-646-1608
utran@ffequipmentleasing.com