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Saskatoon, Sk, Ca

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Finance partner providing financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting for operations expenses and capital.• Developed effective reporting solutions to support senior leaders in making business decisions by providing timely data and analysis• Prepared presentation materials, monthly management reports, ad-hoc analysis requests to support the senior leadership team• Created monthly forecasts based on updated data and parameters, provided variance analysis to budget/forecasts

Saskatoon, Sk

Strategic partner with business unit leadership team to provide financial analysis and guidance for both operational and capital expenses, inventory management, and providing reporting for decision making.• Reduced annual inventory outages from over $4.5MM to under $0.2MM by initiating inventory system changes through IT, collaborating with Manufacturing leadership and on-site staff on obstacles impacting their ability to provide information and prioritizing inventory reporting, and… Show more Strategic partner with business unit leadership team to provide financial analysis and guidance for both operational and capital expenses, inventory management, and providing reporting for decision making.• Reduced annual inventory outages from over $4.5MM to under $0.2MM by initiating inventory system changes through IT, collaborating with Manufacturing leadership and on-site staff on obstacles impacting their ability to provide information and prioritizing inventory reporting, and reducing the need for manual data collection from the sites by extracting information from various existing systems• Collaborate with various stakeholders such as Manufacturing, Marketing, Supply and Logistics to provide consistent financial and volumetric information across the teams that were used to create business strategies and prepare budgets and forecasts.• Worked with project teams and other stakeholders to provide business knowledge, process knowledge, guidance, and training for system transitions for an SAP upgrade, a new inventory management system, and a new trucking system to ensure that our business unit needs were understood• Worked with business unit leadership team to ensure forecasts and budgeting were as accurate as possible to reduce variance explanations to upper management and to ensure that our key performance indicators were met Show less

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Coordinated an administration team providing services in operating and capital budgets and forecasting, operating and capital expense reporting, tender support, logistics, AP, and HR services.• Transitioned purchasing from a manual workflow to an SAP Purchase Order system to ensure that spend did not exceed approved amounts• Reviewed internal and corporate reporting to ensure that duplicate and extraneous reporting was eliminated resulting in reduced manual reports, consistency of… Show more Coordinated an administration team providing services in operating and capital budgets and forecasting, operating and capital expense reporting, tender support, logistics, AP, and HR services.• Transitioned purchasing from a manual workflow to an SAP Purchase Order system to ensure that spend did not exceed approved amounts• Reviewed internal and corporate reporting to ensure that duplicate and extraneous reporting was eliminated resulting in reduced manual reports, consistency of information being reported, and reduced time spent on processes that did not add value by 10% of an FTE• Transitioned workflow from paper-based tracking and record keeping to electronic records by persuading management team and providing training to administrative staff resulting in less paper filing and easier access to records Show less