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Enderby, British Columbia, Canada

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

• Led a team of four to coordinate and consolidate ASPE financial information with limited partners. Provide financial and accounting leadership within a First Nations’ owned entity to an underexperienced accounting team. • Perform an active role in evaluating potential partnership business relationships with KFNE.• Engaged in investigative accounting project to identify malfeasance by prior employees with the corporate credit cards and misappropriation of capital assets.• Upgraded to a CPA and IT based controller. Power BI was used to analyze data entry, extract detail listings, and cleanup data to reconcile the opening subledgers and the March 2023 year end.• Sales orders were recorded in Salesforce and AP, AR, and journal entries were recorded in Accounting Seed.• Revised and had accounting team prepare procedures manual for sales orders and invoicing.

Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

Consultant, Sole Practitioner• Served the accounting and tax preparation needs of a client needs of a diverse set of clients (including IT network management services, corporate documentation and administration services, retail vape store, retail hot tub and outdoor patio store, common and preferred shareholding company, law offices, and other accounting and tax practitioners). Financial statements were consistent with ASPE.• Provided management consulting and interim controller services to clients in predictive intelligence network protection and anti-malware services, sewer and pipeline construction and repair contracting, commercial debt financing company, a local residential and commercial window manufacturer, and an indigenous owned and operated water hauling company.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada

• Provided financial leadership at an industrial and construction safety and security business that included five companies (Corrado Ventures Inc., Domcor Health Safety & Security Incorporated, Domcor Projects Inc., Domcor Traffic Control International Inc., and Safety Net Security Ltd.) with six direct reports in Accounting, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Purchase Order Approval, and four direct reports in the CGL Project.• Reviewed and approved the bi-weekly payroll of 550 union and non-union employees. • Managed eight direct reports and three indirect reports.• Trained on data entry, journal entry, and financial statement preparation in Sage 300, Sage Financial Reporter, and Microsoft Office. Familiar with running reports in time sheet entry using Time & Attendance.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• C-Suite leader of oil sands service and high-pressure water cleaning businesses (operated under the name Shale Industrial Ltd), with authority over six direct reports and the Accounting, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Data Analytics departments.• Provided guidance and direction to the CEO regarding all facets of corporate finance and corporate strategy. • Involved in or led the relationships with banks, equipment finance corporations, attorneys, accountants, tax departments and technology professionals. • Introduced, with the assistance of a third-party strategy consultant, personality profiling to reduce interviewer bias in the search for suitable candidates to fill positions requiring specific personality characteristics and abilities. • Headed production of management and account reports in accordance with ASPE; for the last two years, led the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements for five companies with common ownership consistent with ASPE.• Co-authored the corporate employee policy manual to standardize the conduct of staff and management.• Navigated the company through a period of 85% decline in sales, co-developing, and executing with the VP Operations the strategy to avoid bankruptcy.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Program Co-ordinator sharing the duty of booking speakers for the monthly member meetings

Edmonton

Edmonton, Canada Area

Controller• Directed the action of four direct staff and four indirect staff at a building products and builders’ hardware distributor and manufacturer of blow-in insulation. • Authority over Accounting, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Human Resources, and Reception. Managed relationships with banks and certain suppliers.• Risk managed foreign exchange transactions of $1.5 million US dollar per month in options and forward currency contracts.• Championed the revision of the branch accounting to allow for the determination of branch return on assets. Supervised the assistant controller in monthly allocation of head office costs to the eight branches.• Ensured compliance by all management and accounting reports with GAAP (PE); prepared quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements for three companies with common ownership consistent with GAAP(PE).• Shared responsibility with the assistant controller in system maintenance of Epicor Eclipse ERP.

Thorsby, Alberta, Canada

Controller Managed the Finance Department for a high growth hot tub manufacturer of Arctic Spas®, Coyote Spas™, Guild Billiards™, and hot tub cedar accessories sold in Canada, United States of America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.  Oversaw Accounting, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Reception with authority over a team of six direct reports. Reviewed and released bi-weekly payroll for 225 non-union employees. Prepared monthly and annual financial statements consistent with GAAP for ownership, and monthly and annual reporting to the BMO and the BDC.  Responsible for the preparation and revision of annual budgets and cash flow projections, leading variance analysis and investigation.  Maintained business insurance, Accounts Receivable Insurance, floor financing, and employee benefit programs.  Directed preparation of payroll, US sales tax, and US income tax return preparation for a US resident corporation; researched, developed, and implemented the tax compliance structure and reporting for two US corporations. Executed monthly purchases of $2.5 million USD in foreign currency purchases of Canadian dollars, US dollars, Euros, and Chinese Renminbi.

Cpa, Cma

Cpa, Cma, Management Accounting

Activities and Societies: CPA Canada

B.Comm., Accounting

Activities and Societies: Accounting ClubBachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting