Chris Appleby Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Promoted to senior corporate services leader and tasked with incorporating a macro approach to vendor management across 3 business units (250+ locations) to achieve spend reduction targets while ensuring a high level of service and quality of product or service.• Ownership of Request for Proposals (RFP) and Master Service Agreement (MSA) processes: led cross-functional teams to evaluate results from RFP responses, negotiated pricing and agreement terms, and presented findings to senior leadership team to ensure stakeholder alignment prior to rollout. • Key stakeholder leading the vendor sourcing and implementation of CBI Health’s Oracle NetSuite ERP software. This process included evaluating and recommending potential ERP solutions, designing the new procure to payment process using purchase orders to ensure future purchases are earmarked for intended purchases, designing reports for leadership, and ensuring approvals are performed based on delegation of authority.• Other significant savings achieved also aligned with efforts across various other goods and service requirements.• Conducted regular presentations and check-ins with all senior leadership teams to align the business's goals with Procurement initiatives.• Assigned lead of Facilities Management department to align vendor base and troubleshoot ticket response rate with organizational goals provided by Senior Leadership. Transitioned day-to-day management to new Facilities Management team upon completion in 2023.• Collaborated with various corporate services members (Accounts Payable, Facilities Management, Accounts Payable, Corporate Real Estate) to develop personal capability beyond functional goods and service supply operation to ensure high level of service and cost transparency.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Assigned the Supply Chain Lead position in 2018 with the goal of building a comprehensive goods and service program from the ground up: no existing RFP process, Master Agreements for preferred vendor base, or any policies and procedures in place within organisation upon commencement of position.• Built a centralized vendor base across a variety of product and service lines. This included designing a Request for Proposals process, consolidating current vendor bases and negotiating detailed contractual agreements with each vendor base to ensure all necessary provisions suited to CBI Health’s senior leadership teams.• Took ownership of all PPE requirements during pandemic to ensure the purchasing, inventorying, analysis, and logistics for replenishment of PPE were met to equip all staff with the necessary supplies (masks, gloves, gowns, sanitizers, face shields). Successfully ensured sizable supply line was met for all requirements and worked around the clock to source in a scarcity-based environment.

Toronto

• Tasked with the procurement of items including but not limited to medical equipment, medical supplies, furniture, exercise equipment, filing solutions, and any other capital assets based on inherited policies and procedures.• Managed projects for new clinic and office builds (up to 10 ongoing projects at once). This included managing procurement item lists, making sure that it conforms to the budget, coming up with a suitable layout, and coordinating the delivery of items to the new sites.• Compare and contrast specifications and price between all capital items required.• Coordinate delivery times with building management and staff receiving.• Create manually generated purchase orders (Excel), update pricing matrixes, and approval levels.• Standardize vendors across capital asset base to help attain cost savings initiatives.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto

•Ensures proper distribution to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoices or expense reports.•Paying vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; scheduling of cheques; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice or payment discrepancies and documentation, insuring credits are received, issuing stop payments or request purchase order amendments.•Complete, accurate and timely processing of cheques.•Complete, accurate and timely preparation of various AP reports.•Code and reconciliation of expense reports and invoices at an extremely high volume.•Processing EFTs for entire firm; monitoring outgoing wire transfers to both domestic and international vendors

Toronto, Canada Area

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

•Assisting in month-end closing for 4 separate business entities, including adjustment entries•Reconciling general ledgers, posting journal entries, and assisting with the preparation of a variety of financial statements•Providing accruals, fixed-assets & variance analysis•Preparing monthly journal entries and account reconciliation for assigned general ledger accounts and balance sheets•Monitoring capital assets, accruals, depreciation and interest•Preparing bank and vacation reconciliations for 4 companies•Monitoring inter-company and bank transactions for all companies, including preparation of deposits for Medacom Atlantic•Ensuring accuracy and timeliness of information as an integral part of overall financial reporting

Enfield, Nova Scotia

•Conducting analysis on RFQs on new parking equipment. Presented recommendations.•Performing credit card reconciliations. Relayed and received packages.•Assembling procurement instructions for new incoming administrators.•Monitoring gas usage for facilities around the airport. •Making and updating capital asset spreadsheets, including inspection of assets.•Assisting in the preparation of a variety of financial statements

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

• Received incoming payments for the Treasury team. • Processed and reconciled EFTs, Lockbox, and Wire Transfers.• Provided support for the Air Canada flight passes. Reconciled receipts to G/L,• Setup new employees for flight passes. Monitored and produced analytical results.• Prepared monthly bank margin reports for the head of Treasury.• Conducted Credit Checks on potential clients, recommended retainers to the Project Managers.• Created Lockbox and Daily Deposit instruction manuals for new employees.

Certified Supply Chain Management Professional Designation (Cscmp), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Certified Supply Chain Management Professional - Designated as of October 2016

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance