Denise Vargas- Human Resources Payroll Associate I
Denise grew up in San Diego, but her family is from Guadalajara, Mexico. She went to San Diego State University and majored in Mathematics. She was always fond of numbers and solving complex problems! While in college, Denise would tutor middle/high school students in Math and worked as a cake decorator at Baskin Robbins. She loves to draw and paint, especially using watercolors and submits her artwork to the Del Mar Fair for their art exhibitions for fun. When she’s not doing arts and crafts, Denise takes her two dogs (4-year-old Pitbull named Bruce and a 2-year-old Rottweiler named Athena) to the park or dog beach. She loves reading and listening to audio books. While she’s working or cooking, Denise usually listens to an audio book. Right now, she’s reading the Eragon book series.
After her cake decorating days, Denise worked at a movie theater as a manager and became the head of their HR department. She became passionate about training, hiring, and helping employees and realized HR was a career she wanted to pursue. Denise was hired at FLORES a few years ago and feels so happy to be part of such a great team! She started off with grocery stores as her first clients and then expanded to a variety restaurants. As an HR/Payroll Administrator, her favorite aspect of working here is that we treat each other like family and help each other whenever possible. The company culture is one of the many reasons why Denise chose to work for FLORES. Working for FLORES has been a blessing, both professionally and personally. She loves that we motivate each other to grow and provide the best service possible to our clients.
The ones that mean the most to Denise are her my dogs, and her boyfriend and his daughter. They love going bowling on Sundays and taking the dogs to the dog park. For trick or treating this year, her dogs are going to be Batman and Wonder woman for Halloween. She is looking forward to November, as they will be going to Big Bear after Thanksgiving as a family! “Live in the present, remember the past and fear not the future for it doesn’t exist and never shall, there is only now.” This is a quote from a book Denise read called Eldest and she relates to it because it reminds her to live in the present and while there are many possibilities of how the future will play out, the future is unknown. It reminds her to take things a day at a time and enjoy life.
Denise’s future goal is to be an HR trainer. Helping others makes her feel accomplished whether it be her clients or coworkers, and it brings her so much joy and motivation to provide the best service she can. Denise loves working for Flores Financial, and just celebrated her third year anniversary! She feels so blessed to work with such an amazing team and enjoys coming to work every day and growing relationships with her clients.