Andrew Burns Sharp Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Building out a Human Resource (HR) system to analyze staffing trends and predict future staffing requirements, while maintaining the existing position management system within the People, Culture & Brand group.
• Working with Data Analytics partners to develop prototypes for employee reporting dashboards, which are then automated and exported to the entire organization.
• Preparing reports using the latest statistical data to align salary expenditure with headcount changes on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis for the senior executives.
• Identified redundancies and gaps in the HR data and building operational reporting in Excel and Tableau
• Manage stakeholders, partners, and executives to help them plan for upcoming changes within their respective budgets, crafting & analyzing evolving business cases and plotting out these budgetary changes in quarterly.
• Managing and training the Senior Analyst and Analysts on the team to ensure accurate and timely financial budgeting and reporting.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed ~10M across multiple project budgets, related to employee capability enhancement, onboarding, workplace experience, transformation etc.
• Partnered with multiple teams such as Payroll, Finance and Human Resources (HR) in order to build out annual financial plans, forecast budget and expenditure, resulting in a decrease in budget deviation by 25%.
• Developed reporting policies and guidelines on various budgets and YTD expenditures for multiple business partners, executives and Strategic Business Units throughout CIBC.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Commercial Banking Strategy & Premises Initiatives:
• Managing ~1.2M in project budgets, related to US expansion, Canadian location strategy and Technology enhancements.
• Working with partners in HR and business leaders to ensure effective communications and rollout of COVID-19 requirements at all Commercial Banking worksites and strategically mapping out viable Return to Office.
• Overseeing global employee expansion, relocation, co-location and densification initiatives for Commercial Banking, Real Estate Finance, Corporate Finance, Innovation Banking and CIBC Asset Management, with projects in.
• Consulting with numerous partner teams, including Corporate Real Estate, Corporate Services, HR, Tech & Ops and Finance in order to provide strategic solutions & enhancements to Commercial Banking & CAM.
• Creating employee reporting on ~1K Innovation Banking and Commercial Banking employees, for use by Commercial Banking’s senior executives.

150 York Street, Toronto, Ontario

• Managed ongoing projects and programs such as Capital Plan tracking, annual technology spend, & budget management of 350K for the Capital Markets Continuing Education Program.
• Reconciled and tracking all Talent Development expenses, accruals, and chargebacks to business partners, using Oracle Business Intelligence at an enterprise level to ensure all costs & reimbursements were allocated to.
• Provided consultation to the myriad teams in relation to financial analysis, business analysis and operational analysis, including the management and oversight of specialized software acquisition & deployment, as well.
• Ensured that policies which affect the day-to-day operations of the Business unit were adhered to and improved, such as Business Continuity Management, Records Management, and Employee Operational Effectiveness.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Oversaw Retail, Commercial and Private Wealth Employees nationwide, working closely with Underwriting in order to enforce CIBC, Federal/Provincial liquidity, compliance and risk requirements.
• Ensured that all CIBC internal credit policies and guidelines were maintained and followed, providing coaching and learning to lenders nationwide, reducing risk nationwide by minimizing losses incurred through any and.
• Created and analysed national reports on a per-annum basis, resulting in concise metrics, improved efficiency and accuracy in maintaining and updating existing due diligence protocols.
• Developed and oversaw implementation of procedures and procedural changes to improve efficiency company-wide, with 25 Continuous Improvement initiatives implemented to date.

• Managed client portfolios, advising and supporting sales teams responsible for investment needs as well as lending and credit based needs.
• Created and enforced policies and practices that result in aggressive and rapid customer acquisition and base growth, while co-ordinating with sales teams.
• Analyzed and issued credit products and opening new accounts for clients, verifying and credit requirements for large scale credit for sales teams.
• Created and initiated sales strategies designed to promote credit and investment products.

• Managed client portfolios, balancing investment needs against borrowing and credit based needs.
• Created and sustained relationships with personal and business clients, enlarging the branch’s consumer base, financial products and services.
• Increased client net worth through careful selection of market based products and registered savings options.
• Analyzed daily reports detailing successful sales, strategies and acquisition plans.
• Networked between internal departments, liaising between Legal, Credit Adjudication, Technical support in order to prepare and approve complex credit and investment deals.

• Managed large cash transactions, ensuring accuracy and establishing positive customer relations while minimizing liability risk, while also following collection procedures.
• Created and sustained relationships with personal and business clients, enlarging the branch’s consumer base.
• Kept careful control of cash flows coming in and out of bank, ensuring no loss to the branch by detecting and preventing use of counterfeit cash, cheques etc.