Bill Osgood, Cpa, Cga Email & Phone Number

Ajax, On, Ca

Whitby, Ontario

- Achieved cost savings exceeding $20,000 to date through stringent control of production supplies and elimination of department overtime.- Devised in month sales reports showing up to date variances to budget and forecast in both dollars and meters; serves as an initial project to new in month full reporting.- Engaged functional managers in understanding department costs and setting goals through comprehensive department reporting.

Toronto, Canada Area

Consultation with businesses, evaluating new opportunities and inviting inquiries.

Scarborough, Ontario

- Core team leader – JD Edwards E1 implementation for H. Paulin- Forecasted net working capital and cash flow for parent company to aid in planning process

Concord, Ontario

- Strengthened reporting accountability and team engagement in a limited timeframe, devising and implementing policies and procedures to tighten obligatory fiscal compliance.- Elevated the company’s ability to analyze and track inventory, designing an MS Excel-based workbook to provide a summary analysis of inventory stock located throughout the plant.- Acquired clarity into quarantined inventory stock and a greater understanding of production waste, eliminating investigation time at… Show more - Strengthened reporting accountability and team engagement in a limited timeframe, devising and implementing policies and procedures to tighten obligatory fiscal compliance.- Elevated the company’s ability to analyze and track inventory, designing an MS Excel-based workbook to provide a summary analysis of inventory stock located throughout the plant.- Acquired clarity into quarantined inventory stock and a greater understanding of production waste, eliminating investigation time at month-end and reducing errors.- Devised an update forecast model comparing dollar amount with percentile of sales for a mid-month forecasting tool utilizing data from the ERP system.- Boosted total sales and standard cost accuracy highlighting fixed and non-related costs for senior management perusal.- Streamlined the generation of month-end from 3.5 days to 2.5 days, completing journal entries as the month unfolded. Show less

Scarborough, Ontario

- Acknowledged for tenacity walking the plant floor and engaging in business beyond finance, interacting with cross-functional personnel to understand operational and finance issues, providing expert opinion where needed.- Realigned SOX protocol and compliance after a recent violation, banishing the potential loss of a 10% bonus for all plant associates.- Drafted and enforced new policies and procedures reassigning duties of the staff, generating a clean SOX compliance in 2011.-… Show more - Acknowledged for tenacity walking the plant floor and engaging in business beyond finance, interacting with cross-functional personnel to understand operational and finance issues, providing expert opinion where needed.- Realigned SOX protocol and compliance after a recent violation, banishing the potential loss of a 10% bonus for all plant associates.- Drafted and enforced new policies and procedures reassigning duties of the staff, generating a clean SOX compliance in 2011.- Uncovered excessive costs on trailers used for storage and high fuel surcharge increases.- Disposed of unnecessary trailers saving $18,000 and renegotiated the forthcoming fuel up-charge from 40% to 20%, saving a further $32,000 per annum.- Utilized the ERP system to develop a product absorption tracking mechanism to identify daily positions to minimize actual labour spend, detecting inefficiencies on each shift.- Designed an improved staff scheduling module to maximize the use of labour.- Embraced the corporate mandate to initiate continuous improvement of monthly and yearly forecasting.- Collaborated with a peer to design a new reporting process capturing additional and detailed elements encompassing foreign exchange and resin pass throughs for customers and suppliers, uplifting forecasting accuracy to within 5% of actual results.- Combated pressure from the corporate office as the top performing plant in Canada to improve results to offset issues in other manufacturing plants.- Partnered with the finance team and department managers to redraw month-end processes, reducing completion time from 4 to 2 days, generating a 95% accuracy with a final EBITDA.- Further identified a labour issue stemming from a previous incumbents’ budget, yielding an absorption shortfall of $60,000 per annum.- Coached and mentored a team member faced with potential termination, reinvigorating the employees’ engagement, transitioning into the best team performer ready to accept additional assignments. Show less

Scarborough, Ontario

- Influential in validating and identifying production and procurement costs valued at $3.5 million forming a cross-functional committee to evaluate all facets of the business and bring forward cost saving contributions. - Pinpointed numerous areas for cost extraction including switching from plastic wrap to marine wrap for dry core reactors and discovering significant labour savings by outsourcing crate and skid manufacturer. - Obtained deep knowledge of production, manufacturing… Show more - Influential in validating and identifying production and procurement costs valued at $3.5 million forming a cross-functional committee to evaluate all facets of the business and bring forward cost saving contributions. - Pinpointed numerous areas for cost extraction including switching from plastic wrap to marine wrap for dry core reactors and discovering significant labour savings by outsourcing crate and skid manufacturer. - Obtained deep knowledge of production, manufacturing and procurement to position finance as a true business partner.- Met the parent company, Siemens, mandate to create internal control policies prior to SOX implementation. - Aligned with external auditors to understand the impact including job costing, inventory transfers and journal entry protocol. - Authored a new internal control system boosting accountability and improving annual audit reports.- Reshaped and bolstered the shop order standard costing and sales contribution margin reports, creating new Excel reports and data stemming from the EMIS MRP system. - Interacted with IT and senior operations leaders to harvest data and redefine the presentation of a mass of information to customize ordering and summarize monthly orders back to the P&L.- Improved obsolete inventory tracking and valuation, building a program in MS Excel to identify monthly changes to obsolete inventory, highlight non-moving items and provide multiple data points, reducing inventory on hand by $200,000 with a potential $2 million additional reduction. Show less

Thornhill, Ontario

- Rapidly promoted making significant contributions to business operations, initiating numerous projects to reinforce finance as an integral component of business operations.- Initiated standard costing for the full 60 style product offering, generating an additional $300,000 in 6 months working alongside production staff to understand manufacturing processes to standardize multiple product offerings.- Volunteered to lead the door assembly team through a potential integration of lean… Show more - Rapidly promoted making significant contributions to business operations, initiating numerous projects to reinforce finance as an integral component of business operations.- Initiated standard costing for the full 60 style product offering, generating an additional $300,000 in 6 months working alongside production staff to understand manufacturing processes to standardize multiple product offerings.- Volunteered to lead the door assembly team through a potential integration of lean manufacturing into the business, facilitated by a leading Japanese Kaizen consulting company.- Gained comprehensive knowledge of Kaizen methodology pushing for implementation across the operation prior to a management decision to halt the initiative.- Navigated through multiple challenges in calculating labour costs and logistics infrastructure as the company embarked on an international production expansion to Mexico.- Conducted a detailed synopsis of the financial effect encompassing labour and Mexican government legislated benefits combined with logistical aspects of empty supplier trucks used in one direction.- Prepared and presented a compelling report to the KOHLER Board of Directors, the parent company, outlining all implications for the project generating questionable profitability, aiding in forcing a decision to terminate the project and build in Toronto and North Carolina.- Pivotal in mapping cost centres required for the MM/PP and FI/CO modules for the forthcoming SAP implementation.- Assigned cost allocations to products based on drivers and structured the cost centres prior to successful testing.- Chosen to implement the KOHLER production activity collection application to capture employee time and attendance data.- Setup a testing of the system for a group of employees providing successful capture of the required information. Show less

North York, Ontario

- Teamed with paving road crews to acquire knowledge on their work and challenges including reasons for delays affecting cost variances and estimation variations.- Developed and implemented procedures to streamline period-end reporting in JDEdwards, generating the benchmark for analysis, later adopted into a new employee training package.

Markham, Ontario

- Composed policies and procedures for purchasing documentation with an emphasis on reducing touch points across the business, maximizing data retrieval, receiving applause from the auditor for increased asset protection.

Designation, Accounting

Diploma Of Applied And Creative Arts, Photography

Psychology