Ray Del Prado and his wife, Vicky Del Prado, founded Bright Star Bookkeeping LLC to assist and help small businesses and start-up companies manage their books and records — and to help those businesses grow.
Ray Del Prado is an accounting executive with over 25 years of experience leading and managing the accounting departments of Fortune 500 companies and start-up companies. He oversees all aspects of a company's financial operations: accounting operations — accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll — revenue recognition, intercompany accounting, fixed asset accounting, accounting system upgrades and conversions, new business on-boarding, outsourcing, consolidation and financial reporting.
The bulk of Mr. Del Prado's accounting experience came after he joined Microsoft, where for a decade he managed and led their North America, Latin America, and Asia and Pacific accounting teams. His main responsibility was the entire full accounting cycle for those regions.
He was responsible for numerous process improvements that saved millions of dollars and a great many hours of work, and he successfully led the accounting team through many of Microsoft's worldwide projects and new product releases that required accounting innovation. That work included accounting system upgrades, on-boarding new businesses, products and business lines into accounting, outsourcing accounting processes, creating new accounting processes, and re-engineering existing ones to be more cost effective and efficient.
Mr. Del Prado helped Harley-Davidson's Financial Services division create their entire accounting processes, accounting systems and internal controls from scratch. He managed the budget and forecast of the engineering, IT and HR departments at General Electric. And as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he completed the full cycle financial audit of numerous clients.
Ray currently focuses on leading the accounting and finance of a start-up company — in line with his career plan of specializing in accounting for start-ups and small businesses. Bright Star Bookkeeping LLC is the expression of that plan: the discipline of a Fortune 500 accounting department, sized and priced for a business that does not have one.
Career at a glance
Founded with Vicky Del Prado to help small businesses and start-ups manage their books and grow.
A decade leading North America, Latin America, and Asia and Pacific accounting teams through full-cycle accounting, system upgrades and worldwide product launches.
Created the division's accounting processes, systems and internal controls.
Managed the budget and forecast for the engineering, IT and HR departments.
Completed full cycle financial audits for numerous clients.
Books, records and financial statements are prepared by accounting professionals with more than 20 years of experience, holding a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in business and accounting.
Books and records are prepared based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and new accounting codifications.
Senior accounting expertise, priced for a small business — scaled to your size, transaction volume and the complexity of the work.
As part of the service, we will always look for areas where your business can save some money.
We are always available any time of the day for any question or concern that you may have.
Bright Star exists to assist small businesses and start-up companies with their books and records — and to help those businesses grow.
For more information, message us at info@brightstarbookkeeper.com.
