Leo Cantu

Leo Cantu

UTRGV Athletics promoted Leo Cantu to accountant II on Aug. 7, 2023 after he served as an intern during the 2022-23 academic year.

As an intern, Cantu developed automated financial reports and balanced and reconciled cost and revenue accounts for UTRGV athletics. Cantu also assisted in the creation of processes to identify and reconcile costs associated with travel and operations and prepared and presented departmental budgets, analyses, and reports. Cantu is expected to earn his Master of Business Administration in Data Analytics at UTRGV in May 2024.

Prior to his time at UTRGV, Cantu worked as a senior transfer pricing consultant for Deloitte in Monterrey, Mexico. In that role, Cantu balanced and analyzed accounting information to ensure compliance with tax obligations, coordinated and assisted teams with international clients to comply with fiscal obligations, prepared and presented reports from the analyses of financial information of businesses, and provided the valuation of tangible and intangible assets.

Cantu spent time as a finance professor at Instituto Universitario Benito Juarez in Monterrey in 2021. He created lesson plans for financial valuation and financial topics, and taught courses with a focus on basic and advanced excel skills development.

Cantu also worked as a lead mentor for UTRGV from 2016-17. He assisted and guided student mentors, hosted monthly meetings with student mentors, and prepared and developed plans for academic and personal success of mentors and mentees.

Cantu earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics and Finance at UTRGV in May 2017.