The firm

An operational partner, not a bookkeeping vendor.

JDL Financial Operations treats accounting as an operating system: inputs, cycle time, controls and a published calendar — not a pile of documents handled at the end of the year.

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The advisor

Jorge De La Cruz

Financial advisor, project accountant and bookkeeper.

I work as an external advisor to companies that have outgrown ad-hoc bookkeeping but do not need a full internal finance department. The work is the same in every engagement: get the ledger accurate, get the close on a calendar, and remove the manual steps that put both at risk.

My background is project accounting — construction and field services, where cost has to be tied to a job before it means anything — alongside electronic tax compliance and payroll reconciliation across two jurisdictions. That combination is why the practice is built around reconciliation first and reporting second. A report built on an unreconciled ledger is a guess with formatting.

Where a process is slow, I measure it before redesigning it. Lean and OEE are not decoration here; they are how a close goes from a scramble to a sequence.

Project accounting Lean / OEE Electronic compliance Payroll reconciliation
Operating principles

How the work is run.

These are not preferences. They are the conditions that make the numbers usable.

Scope before work

Deliverables, calendar and fee are agreed in writing first. Anything outside the scope is quoted separately rather than absorbed quietly.

Reconcile, then report

Every account ties to a source outside the ledger before a statement is issued. Open items are listed, not buried in a rounding line.

One system of record

The same figure is never entered twice. Where two systems hold the same data, one is named the source and the other is fed from it.

Fixed cadence

Close, filings and reporting run to a published calendar. You know which day each deliverable lands before the month starts.

Written variance

Anything that moves outside its expected range comes with a written explanation and a driver, not a note to discuss it later.

Confidentiality

Client data stays inside the client's own systems wherever possible. Access is named, minimal and revocable.

How we work

Audit. Optimize. Manage.

A fixed onboarding sequence. You know what lands, and when.

01

Audit

Full ledger review, reconciliation backlog, and a written list of open items within the first 30 days.

02

Optimize

Workflow redesign against Lean and OEE measures — remove duplicate entry, close the data gaps, set the calendar.

03

Manage

Ongoing close, payroll reconciliation and electronic filing, reported on a fixed monthly cadence.

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