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I am a GM and Director of Finance, with 20+ years experience leveraging solution implementation and organizational restructuring to deliver business strategy and operations excellence. I excel at controlling budget management, costs, cashflow and P&L to deliver measurable financial improvements and am proficient at fostering collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and cultures while operating as business partner to ensure workstream alignment. Colt Canada Corporation’s corporate parent needed to seek bankruptcy protection due to low margins and increased competition. As Director of Finance, I led US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I aided employees through town-hall style meetings, provided regular updates and solutions then ensured adequate cashflow forecasting and analysis for payments while aiding suppliers with status of accounts to maintain manufacturing. Succeeded in recovering business from Bankruptcy in 6 months and ensuring all customer deliverables were met. Bryan’s Auction Services needed to consolidate operations due to COVID-19 restrictions. As GM, I determined business continuity capability. I created virtual team meetings as check points for new direction, identified initial steps post regulations then reduced sales approach to customers while testing strategy with select clients. I partnered clients / business to maintain direction and strategy then relaunched operations within 2 months. Succeeded in restarting operations with less staff to achieve profitable results. One of my core skills is identifying then attracting top-tier talent while developing internal operators to build world-class business leadership and structures. I am passionate about leading root-cause analysis and solution identification to plan for future events and quickly mitigate current and future business risks.Key Skills:✔ Strategic Planning✔ Stakeholder Engagement✔ Process Improvement ✔ Operations Management✔ Planning Budgeting & Forecasting✔ Product Costing✔ Tax Strategies✔ Leadership (>10 people)✔ ERP Design & Projects✔ Product rationalization✔ Market Analysis✔ Consolidation Projects✔ Activity Based Costing✔ Compliance Training✔ Full-Cycle Accounting✔ International Tax Planning✔ Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Listed skills include Financial Analysis, Internal Controls, Accounting, Auditing, and 2 others.