Adryan Billups, CPA

Senior Consultant - Houston, TX

Adryan Billups has been a strategic consultant with a strong grasp of core financial and administration concepts, including Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, management financial reporting, monthly accounting closing process, compliance under Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and auditing. She brings more than 20 years of finance and accounting experience from several publicly traded companies with gross revenues over $500 million.

Ms. Billups industry experiences include companies such as:

  • KBR Inc.
  • Sharps Compliance
  • Cardtronics and seismic data (Global Geophysical Services and Geokinetics Inc.)
  • Oil and Gas and Energy (CVI Energy, CVR Refining, LP, American Midstream Partners, LP, Spectra Energy Partners, AES Corporation, Motiva Enterprises LLC and Shell Oil Products)
  • Automotive (General Motors)
  • Services (Service Corporation International)
  • Banking (Bank of America)
  • Public Accounting and KBR, Inc.

As a consultant, Ms. Billups have worked with companies during transitions, such as carve-outs to stand-alone entities, emerging from bankruptcy , and responding to federal government investigations.

Ms. Billups has  experience compiling Financial Statements, Footnotes and Management’s Discussion and Analysis disclosures for SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q); reviewing and selecting XBRL tags for financial disclosures; completing GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and SEC disclosure checklists ; reviewing press releases and call scripts in connection with quarterly and annual earnings releases; reviewing 8-K filings; preparing work papers that clearly and concisely support disclosures in SEC filings; creating and maintaining desk procedures; researching accounting and financial reporting standards areas relating to SEC rules and regulations, FASB Statements and other related standards; coordinating information between departments and business units; and managing deadlines critical to companies in transition.

Ms. Billups has experience in stabilizing an accounting department after carve-out  to stand-alone entity, documenting accounting month-end closing procedures,  supervising monthly close process, reviewing payroll, supervising Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable staff, providing guidance to senior accountant, recording accruals, recording journal entries, reviewing reconciliations, performing financial statement variance analysis, reporting daily revenue to senior managers, preparing sales tax returns.

Ms. Billups was an Assistant Controller for CalAtlantic (formerly known as Ryland Homes) and engaged in the Office of Currency Comptroller (OCC), Federal Reserve and Department of Justice independent foreclosure review investigation to determine financial harm and remediation to borrowers for national banking servicer; she analyzed and interpreted data and documents (note, security instrument, court orders, modifications packages, ) in accordance with OCC review methodology; determined whether foreclosures were processed in accordance with state/federal laws, investor guidelines, Serviceman Civil Relief Act, US Bankruptcy Codes and Homes Affordable Modification Program; analyzed fees and loan history, developed conclusions and wrote exceptions determinations as described in OCC guidance and ensured documentation supported exceptions; summarized and prepared  reports with finding and remediation recommendations for each loan prior to review by in-house counsel and servicer provider; lead, trained and reviewed junior team members file review performance.

Education

Master of Science in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship from University of Houston-Victoria. – May 2020