S1.4 Accounting Manager at the NBA with Melvin Matias

My guest today is a tax accounting manager at the National Basketball Association or famously known as the NBA. We talk about his journey on becoming an accounting manager, interactions with his team, lessons on how to deal with two opposing co workers, and advice for any accounting students and recent grads. My guest today, Melvin Matias.

Topics

• Journey to becoming a accounting manager
• Top 4 accounting auditors
• Late night grind
• Learning how to figure stuff out on your own
• Power of the Alumni networks
• Why documentation is important
• Power of networking
• What goes on in accounting interview for students and new grads
• Process in a accounting team
• What is a accounting lead
• Work from home life in the NBA
• Home Office Setup
• Employee Moral
• Communication Tips
• Advice on accounting students and recent grads
• All the cool perks for working in the NBA

For those who listened to the episode, here is additional context for certain sections.

• 7:42 reference is about my day job and how I need to look at some configuration files that may not have much documentation
• Amazon LG monitors on my current work set up