Company Mission
Our mission is to provide valuable accounting resources to our clients in the construction industry. We want to aid and teach our contractors about business concepts that will help them understand cash flow, managing operations, and financial statements.
Meet Our Team
We have a competitive edge in our field because of our extensive experience in the construction industry. Before establishing our firm Rebecca Durbin proved and advanced her financial skills in multiple capacities, including as a chief financial officer (CFO) working with construction contractors. Our expert guidance has empowered many of our clients to become very successful companies, and we look forward to empowering you.
Rebecca Durbin, CPA, CCIFP
Rebecca has a B.A. in Business Management from Menlo College in Atherton, as well as a B.S. in Business – Accounting from the University of Phoenix in Sacramento. She is a proud member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). Rebecca has close to 25 years of experience and accomplishments in the construction industry through her careers with various construction contractors and as a manager with GALLINA LLP and JHS CPAs LLP. Rebecca truly believes that her relationship with clients is more than just business—it’s a partnership. She works with clients to help them succeed through financial, tax, and succession planning.
Mariana Katich, CPA
Mariana is a Tax Manager with 16 years of experience. Mariana provides tax consulting and tax planning services to mid-size and small businesses, and high net worth individuals. She has an MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University and a B.A. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Mariana began her professional career at KPMG (former Rothstein Kass) as an auditor working with clients in the financial service industry. Before joining VAS, she worked at Aprio LLP as a Tax Manager working mainly with multi-state and international business and individual clients in real estate, manufacturing and technology industries. Mariana also has extensive experience preparing tax returns and providing tax planning for trusts and estates.
John “Jay” McGonagle
Jay has a B.A. in Business Management from Providence College in Providence, RI. Prior to joining VAS, Jay established his professional skills in Information technology management with accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and GALLINA LLP. With over 20 years of experience, Jay not only assists VAS internally but also firm clients.
Sandra Riccomi
Sandra is an experienced accounting consultant in the construction industry. Prior to joining Vertice Accounting Solutions, she established complex accounting procedures and critical controls for the day-to-day operations unique to the trades. Her extensive experience and proven can-do attitude are invaluable assets in ensuring accounting departments operate more efficiently and accurately in their mandatory reporting.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole comes to the VAS team with experience in auditing, tax, documenting business processes and related internal controls. With creativity as her superpower, Nicole's responsibilities include marketing and developing articles for industry-related publications. Nicole is also an advanced Excel power user and enjoys preparing pivot tables and graphs for many of our clients. She is also in charge of our consulting engagements team and training of new hires.
Star Ge
Office manager extraordinaire, Star not only makes sure our office runs like a well-oiled machine, she has sound knowledge of tax, financial statement preparation and client bookkeeping needs including bank reconciliations, AP and AR data entry/coding, AIA preparation in Excel and construction accounting software such as Foundation, and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
Monica Leon
Monica has over 10 years of tax and accounting experience with a passion for bookkeeping. She enjoys working with clients closely to help them gain an understanding of the monthly close process, preparation of financial statements and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
Anastassiya Iskrayeva
Anastassiya is a detail-oriented and results-driven professional with experience in financial reporting and bookkeeping, complemented by a solid background in IT and quality assurance. Skilled in Excel for data analysis, with expertise in account reconciliations, she is proficient in various accounting software applications, including contractor- friendly Foundation and QuickBooks. Anastassiya possesses strong analytical skills and is committed to accuracy and ethical standards.