Primary finance lead responsible for providing financial leadership to the Moores (Canada) and K&G (US) Brands' leadership teams. Collaborated with the merchandising team and senior executives to help streamline an outdated sales/margin forecasting process. Manage the entire budgeting process in a rapidly changing matrix organization.Other Notable Achievements: - Partnered with team members to develop detailed predictive sales/margin financial model to facilitate data-based forecasting - Drove a much-needed change from quarterly to monthly forecasting while actively managing detailed sales/margin/inventory forecasting updates; - Collaborated with various teams to upgrade the Hyperion Budgeting tool to Smartview. Enabled a comprehensive integration of activity drivers leading to increased accountabilities; - Performed financial trends analysis and evaluate new business opportunities - Supported the Executive team with strategic insightful inventory analysis - 25% reduction over 2 years; - Prepared quarterly financial packages for the Audit Committees and BOD - Led monthly variance analysis meetings with the Houston Finance and Accounting team.

Built an FP&A department at Moores while the General Accounting function was being transferred to the Houston Head Office. This was a significant culture change that I successfully managed. Led the forecasting process and strategically introduced activity drivers to expand the use of analytics and drive organizational efficiencies.Selected Contributions - Partnered with the Brand President and Operations to implement quarterly forecasting - Ensured alignment of the field budget with the corporate target - Improved internal controls by introducing best practices and KPI actionable reporting - Developed detailed store payroll forecasting model and led quarterly review process to ensure operational targets were achieved - Prepared detailed variance analysis commentary to assist the various teams in developing action plans as required - Supported senior management with insightful financial analysis during pricing negotiations with third parties.