Melissa is a director based in St. Petersburg. She is a member of the firm’s Accounting Standards Group, where she focuses on a wide variety of complex accounting matters including business combinations; debt and equity transactions; derivative fair value and hedge accounting; goodwill and non-financial asset impairment; and leases, among others. In this role, Melissa works with attest engagement teams and clients as a subject matter expert, develops MHM thought leadership, and teaches firm training in these areas.
Previously, Melissa began her career with a Big Four firm providing audit services to a wide variety of public and private entities. From 2009 to 2019, Melissa worked for a publicly traded financial services company in the SEC reporting and technical accounting groups.