I close the books, build the systems, and translate the numbers for venture funds, real estate portfolios, and everything in between.
Numbers tell a story, and my job is translating that story so investors, auditors, and executives can act on it with confidence.
I'm an accounting manager and controller with six years across venture capital, real estate, and family office portfolios, most recently closing the books on $1.6B+ in AUM at Aduro Advisors. Along the way I've led system migrations, built automation into workflows that used to eat entire weeks, and reconciled more bank accounts than I'd like to admit: 50+, if you're counting. I always am.
Based in Lisbon, Portugal, and authorized to work across the EU and US, I care as much about the process behind the numbers as the numbers themselves. The video essays below walk through a few of the projects I'm proudest of, including the mess, the fixes, and everything in between.
Seven roles, one throughline: cleaner books, faster closes, and systems that don't break when the volume scales.
A resume lists what happened. These walk through how: the decisions, the roadblocks, and what I'd do differently next time.
The story behind moving an $800M real estate portfolio onto a new accounting system without missing a close: project scoping, vendor coordination, change management, and the moments it nearly went sideways.
What it actually takes to run GAAP-compliant quarterly close across a portfolio of venture funds, from PBCs and audit liaison to turning fund performance into guidance investors can use.
How I built a cash flow management process across dozens of accounts and entities, catching discrepancies early and designing lender reporting and construction draw workflows the development team could actually rely on.
How I take balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements and distill them into the handful of numbers investors and executives need to make a decision, and how I decide what to leave out.
Why I've made AI-assisted workflow design part of my everyday accounting toolkit: where it genuinely saves time on reporting and reconciliation, and where I still don't trust it further than I can throw it.