About / Team

Kimberly has spent 25 years on every side of small-business finance. She started behind the counter — senior teller and banker roles at Washington Mutual, then senior customer relationship management at United Commercial Bank — before moving into the back office: a decade of hands-on bookkeeping and accounting for contractors, consultancies, and service businesses across the Seattle area.

From there she moved into public accounting as a client accountant at Bader Martin, P.S., one of Seattle's established CPA firms, and then spent seven years as an accounting consultant — parachuting into companies whose books, payroll, or tax filings needed rescue. Most recently she served as an M&A consultant for Nestlé. She holds a BS in Accounting and a BS in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance, and works with clients in English, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

She founded Focused.Financial because consulting kept teaching her the same lesson: most finance messes she was hired to fix started with the wrong hire — a marketplace freelancer nobody vetted, or a role mismatch nobody caught. Focused.Financial is the fix moved upstream: rigorous vetting and honest role-matching, before the mess.

Career highlights

• M&A consultant for Nestlé (recent engagement)
• 7 years as an accounting consultant
• Client accountant at Bader Martin, P.S., a Seattle public accounting firm
• A decade of small-business bookkeeping and accounting: payroll, 940/941, ESD, L&I, excise and B&O filings
• QuickBooks (Enterprise, Online, Desktop) and Sage 50 expert
• Started in banking: senior roles at Washington Mutual and United Commercial Bank
• Serves clients in four languages

Editorial role

Kimberly reviews every article published on Focused.Financial for technical accuracy — payroll and tax references, accounting terminology, and rate data — before it goes live. When you see "Reviewed by Kimberly Diep" on our guides and resources, this is who stands behind it.

Talk to the person who's seen the mess before

Kimberly has spent two decades fixing books that the wrong hire broke. Tell us your situation and she'll point you at the right role — even if it isn't one of ours.

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