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Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Currently building a charitable foundation in support of Trans youth and mental illness.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leadership of Performance Management & Reporting, Costing and Compliance teams with the following scope, Performance Management - Creation and implementation of Performance Management framework - KPI's, Scorecards, Service Level Agreements (SLA's), and CI initiatives.Costing - provision of activity based costing, allocations and time tracking support across the bank.Compliance - responsibility for compliance with CIBC policy in the areas of Business Continuity, Health &… Show more Leadership of Performance Management & Reporting, Costing and Compliance teams with the following scope, Performance Management - Creation and implementation of Performance Management framework - KPI's, Scorecards, Service Level Agreements (SLA's), and CI initiatives.Costing - provision of activity based costing, allocations and time tracking support across the bank.Compliance - responsibility for compliance with CIBC policy in the areas of Business Continuity, Health & Safety, Records Management and Information Security.Additional responsibility for various Business Management & Process Transformation functions - including Business Reviews, Senior Executive presentations & supportHighlighted accomplishments include Establishment of Centres of Excellence (COE) model for Finance Shared Services. Through a process of rationalization, standardization and optimization created process specific COE's resulting in quantifiable improvements in process efficiency of 5-10% year on yearLead the Finance Controls team through an offshoring program, partnering with a 3rd party service provider, resulting in the creation of an offshore delivery center and transitioning of over five thousand processes. Championed, developed and launched real time ‘Time Tracking’ Solution across Finance. Following a successful launch across 500+ employees, data from the tracker was key in shaping several organizational re-designs as part of Finance’s strategic plan.Development of a Performance Measurement Program, encompassing KPI's, and creation of scorecards utilizing tableau. Coupled with ongoing monitoring, resulted in year on year productivity increases in the order of 5-10%.Development and reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with leading business partners of Finance. Providing heightened transparency and the identification and removal of areas of concern, resulting in significant increases in business partner trust and satisfaction. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Brought in as head of Costing to completely re-imagine and reshape the Central Activity Based Costing (“ABC”) team. Succeeded in creating value and building trust with business partners by creating a vision and focus for the use of ABC data, creation and management of an ongoing program of costing initiatives, and the development of costing methodologies, processes, principles and software. resulting in actionable insights. Examples of recent success include.• Led the creation and… Show more Brought in as head of Costing to completely re-imagine and reshape the Central Activity Based Costing (“ABC”) team. Succeeded in creating value and building trust with business partners by creating a vision and focus for the use of ABC data, creation and management of an ongoing program of costing initiatives, and the development of costing methodologies, processes, principles and software. resulting in actionable insights. Examples of recent success include.• Led the creation and design of an internal shared services allocations model to allocate $2.5B in central service costs to various strategic business units allowing accurate financial reporting of segment P&L’s. Planning & forecasting using driver based budgeting data, as well as driving improvement and optimization in usage of services provided. Resulted in efficiencies in excess of $10M annually.• Subsequently spearheaded similar work for CIBC subsidiary First Caribbean (FCIB). Requiring the ability to lead teams in both Canada and remotely in the Caribbean as well as cross functionally in Finance, IT and front office, the work successfully created an entirely new financial allocation model together with associated governance and process to ensure recharging of costs as part of the monthly close process. This in turn has allowed for customer & product profitability to be clearly analysed and understood, enhancing ongoing business decision making.• Enhanced team efficiency through the introduction of an enhanced and standardized costing methodology, together with ‘time wand’ technology reducing time spent gathering data in costing projects by over 50% , resulting in quicker project turnaround and enhanced focus on interpretation of results, in turn boosting employee satisfaction.• Accepted ‘thought leader’ and in-house expert in costing methodology and practice• Carbon Costing• Speaker at SAS ABM and CAMI events Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As part of the bank's internal consultancy group led a team of 12 consultants in a range of strategic, operational and governance projects. Significant projects included• Channel Costing initiative. Project analysed activity and product costs across all major distribution channels to establish relative efficiencies.• Branch Activity Analysis. Detailed activity unit times created and used as part of Branch capacity planning model to establish efficient staffing levels based on… Show more As part of the bank's internal consultancy group led a team of 12 consultants in a range of strategic, operational and governance projects. Significant projects included• Channel Costing initiative. Project analysed activity and product costs across all major distribution channels to establish relative efficiencies.• Branch Activity Analysis. Detailed activity unit times created and used as part of Branch capacity planning model to establish efficient staffing levels based on forecast demand.• Led the Operational Risk Assessment of Finance Wholesale Banking and Treasury Shared Services Group. Requiring a comprehensive process-based framework to be developed to systematically identify risk and the mitigating key controls the work was recognized as Best Practice by CIBC's Risk department. • Provision of risk training to end users as Team Coach for the General Entity Control (GEC) program as well as overall project management for the bank's Control Division for the Operational Process Control (OPC) project. Show less

New York, United States

Consulting firm serving the Financial Services sector, specializing in providing financial managementexpertise, cost management information, costing and recharging solutions and systems integration for large-scale corporate clients.Brought in to lead the company’s work with its primary client American Express. Provided servicesspecifically within the Customer Information Management (CIM) division within Amex.With CIM performed a range of senior financial roles both operational… Show more Consulting firm serving the Financial Services sector, specializing in providing financial managementexpertise, cost management information, costing and recharging solutions and systems integration for large-scale corporate clients.Brought in to lead the company’s work with its primary client American Express. Provided servicesspecifically within the Customer Information Management (CIM) division within Amex.With CIM performed a range of senior financial roles both operational and project specific, reporting directly to the VP Finance, during the period up to September 11 2001. Show less

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Senior consultant with US and Canadian based E-Commerce Software and Consulting company specializing in Cost Management and Performance Measurement.Significant Client Engagements Include:Barclays Bank PLC – Barclays Technology Services DivisionImplementation of IT Costing, Budgeting and Charging System 1998-2000Royal Bank of ScotlandDesign of IT costing and allocations system 2000Catholic Healthcare WestCritical Project Review of ‘Big-Six’ firm implementation of… Show more Senior consultant with US and Canadian based E-Commerce Software and Consulting company specializing in Cost Management and Performance Measurement.Significant Client Engagements Include:Barclays Bank PLC – Barclays Technology Services DivisionImplementation of IT Costing, Budgeting and Charging System 1998-2000Royal Bank of ScotlandDesign of IT costing and allocations system 2000Catholic Healthcare WestCritical Project Review of ‘Big-Six’ firm implementation of ABC 1998B. C. HydroImplementation of costing model to justify utility charges to regulators 1998 Show less

Msc, Physics

Activities and Societies: Received the Fremlin prize as the top Masters student in the year

B.Sc., Physcis, 1St Class Honours

Ca

Aca, Accounting And Finance