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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provide support to Information Security, Corporate Security and Fraud Management regarding audit reviews, governance practices, risk mitigation, financial planning, process optimization, and overall business effectiveness.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Centralized core Business Management functions across the Technology organization. Included expansion of career programs, application delivery support to Communications and Information Security teams and day to day support of three SVPs.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Encompasses multiple different roles focused in varying degrees on support to overall Technology group or individual units related to planning, reporting, governance, communications, facility management and project work.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provided financial advice, modelling and analysis for Card Products division Operations and Technology teams.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provided new approach to costing activities in Card Products division to enable sound business decisions

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Financial member of a cross functional team incorporating principles of Efficient Consumer Response to realize supply chain efficiencies. Duties included examining warehouse consolidation, creating an Activity Based Costing model and finding root cause for variances in the distribution system.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Worked directly with Sales and Marketing departments to develop strategic plans, promotional budgets and new product business cases. Led the implementation of a new financial planning system (OFA) to enhance planning across all product categories.Financial Analyst of Planning and Reporting Ensured accurate reporting to head office while reconciling to international reporting requirements. Selected Achievements at Lever Pond's: Led a cross-functional Activity Based Costing team to determine the profitability of customers and identify areas for cost savings within the order fulfilment stream.Identified a process flaw where deposits were made on returnable pallets, but no credits were being received once the pallets were returned to the vendors. This resulted in an immediate credit of over $100,000 as well as closing the process gap to prevent future exposure.Drove the implementation of Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA). OFA is a multi-dimensional database that improved flexibility and timing of planning & reporting. The project was delivered on time in spite of the departure of the original project leader. Designed and implemented Lotus based systems for Lever and Chesebrough Pond's sales force. Resulting system tracked profitability, trade spending and volume forecasting by customer account. This system was duplicated in a sister company in Canada and was demonstrated internationally.

Blackfriars, London, Gb