David Gray Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Canada Area

OPTIMUS | SBR is a management consulting firm located in Toronto, focused on partnering with leaders to tackle problems, facilitate change, and deliver solutions that drive effective results.As a leader in the Financial Services Group, I have worked with several of the Big 5 Canadian Banks on various programs including Fraud, HR Transformation, and.

Led the integration and turnaround of Customer Service, Technical Service, IT and Purchasing & Logistics in a Private Equity acquisition of 9 managed-print & IT services companies resulting in a quick sale. Was accountable for 60% of FTE, 80% of the organization’s expenses and 40% of revenue as well as operational integration with the new owners.I joined.

As a North American executive directing 30 technical professionals in the USA and Canada, I was charged with establishing enterprise reporting, data governance and analytics.I led the turnaround of a 6 month timeline down to 4 weeks to deliver a critical project on-time avoiding a 1 year delay of product development during challenging organizational and.

I led the process of developing & delivering individual long term strategies for the USA & Canadian businesses requiring the identification and evaluation of growth opportunities and risks based on robust strategic, competitive and financial analyses in close collaboration with leaders across the business.Successes included acting as a key member of a.

I assumed leadership of the bank-wide Online & Mobile Channels finance teams to re-engineer the department. I managed all aspects of a multi-hundred million dollar P&L including reporting, forecasting & planning.I transformed teams by fixing processes & data quality, industrializing tools & improving consulting advice. I achieved in 6 months what was not.

I built and led the Business Intelligence & Process Improvement teams in the USA & Canada for a newly created bank-wide Online & Mobile division. I was accountable for developing processes, tools and business intelligence to integrate the individual Online & Mobile Channels for 4 lines of business.I implemented numerous controls as well as the project.

Roles: Phone Channel Strategic Initiatives, Intranet Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Commercial Banking, Credit Center Operations & Technology I was the first program graduate to be immediately promoted 2 levels upon program completion & first to reach the executive level. I worked with partners bank-wide to successfully integrate an Asset Based Lending.

I successfully led and implemented over 100 Lean, Six Sigma, quality assurance and process improvement initiatives across all parts of the organization. I managed the P&L for over $4 million in new programs requiring effective customer relationship management, engineering sales and managing engineering, machining & production teams.

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Basc, Mechanical Engineering