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Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

CONTROLLER• Produce monthly financial statements for dealership in a timely and accurate manner improving information flow and deliverable time to average 4 day close• Weekly revenue and cost forecasts submitted to stakeholders to project sales and cost trends related to product GPU and departmental productivity• Chattel vehicles purchased for resale, reconcile used and new inventories to flooring data for financing and bank audits• Lead annual budget preparation and analytics including gathering, reviewing, and preparing revenue, direct and indirect cost information enabling management team a complete scope for improved budgetary decisions• Created monthly variance reporting for the four departments focusing on Sales, Gross Margin, Cost of Goods, Net Income, Billable and Unproductive time allowing management team to focus on areas of improvement• Re-institute H&S committee and work toward improving safety mindset and culture• Quarterly financial reporting in Caseware including all supporting accounting schedules, worksheets, entries, and reconciliations to provide information for stakeholders to produce quarterly consolidated and reviewed statements to release to the public and inventors

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

• Produce monthly individual and consolidated financial statements for the group of companies (10 legal entities), timely and accurately having reduced deliverable time from 25 to 15 business days leading senior management to more prompt, accurate business decisions• Created more efficient integration which involves monthly trial balance uploads from two other ERP systems into main ERP for consolidated statements• Expanded and redesigned monthly financial reporting package distributed to operational stakeholders containing; financial statements, revenue vs budget analysis, WIP/Project analysis, and SG&A expense analysis leading to overall reduced expenditures and in-depth project knowledge• Developed and implemented efficient work in progress analysis to assist operational stakeholders with revenue and cost analysis leading to better margin understanding and reduced revenue and cost swings due to timing• IT Team lead for ERP (Maestro) upgrade of version and conversion of database to MS SQL and well as migrating to Office 365 from in-house file share server• Lead on annual budget preparation and analytics for all 10 legal entities including revenue, direct and in-direct costs, SG&A, cashflow, and bank covenant ratios and calculations

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

DIVISIONAL CONTROLLER• Produce monthly financial statements for East Divisions (12 Divisions/15 Departments) timely and accurately having reduced deliverable time from 15 to 9 business days leading senior management to more prompt, accurate business decisions• Created new monthly financial reporting package distributed to operational stakeholders containing; financial statements, revenue, margin, payroll, expense analysis leading to improved customer negotiations on margin, reduced labour costs for unbillable time, and overall reduced unallocated expenditures• Developed and implemented efficient process to eliminate annually hundreds of intra-company transactions allowing costs to be transferred via one transaction type gaining time back for Billing, Procurement, AP, and AR departments• Collaborated with Operations and IT team leads developing and implementing a more efficient standardized “Call to Cash” process reducing days to bill by 30% and increasing data capture and consistency for revenue and standard costing leading to increased customer product and margin analysis• Partake in annual budget preparation including analytics for revenue, direct and unallocated costs as well as SG&A for all eastern divisions • Collaborated with divisional finance leads and IT to develop and improve ERP processes such as electronic approvals for sales and purchase orders allowing operational stakeholders more efficient and timely revenue and expense decisions• Participant on East Integration Team to assimilate Ontario and NL divisions into ERP system bringing all of East under the one common EPR improving timing and accuracy of all financial processes, reporting, metrics, and analytics

Halifax, Canada Area

ACCOUNTANT•Prepare monthly financial statements for all three companies within the group in a timely and accurate manner improving information flow and content to stakeholders leading to improved revenues and reduction in costs•Developed process for complex project cost allocations improving accuracy in project revenue/cost and reporting•Prepare and analyze weekly cashflow for all companies including forecasting resulting in a more accurate cash position•Participate in annual budget preparation and analytics including gathering and preparing revenue, direct and indirect cost information enabling stakeholders a complete scope for improved budgetary decisions•Analyze and allocate third party labour and materials for projects and provide project managers concise and timely analysis leading to cost reduction•Collaborate with administration group to create and improve processes and procedures which has resulted in increased efficiency and accuracy in accounts payable, receivable, and payroll reporting•Improved capital asset and amortization schedules to increase detail and reconcile details to assets for improved accuracy and more user oriented processes

DIVISIONAL CONTROLLER•Implemented an improved process for monthly statement preparation for the Service division that resulted in statements being received on time and provided more accurate feedback to management to allow them to make better decisions•Analyzed the data for annual budget preparation resulting in more accurate information to manage costs Collaborated with V.P Fleet/Purchasing to improve purchasing processes and procedures•Participated in implementing computerized systems in 10 garage locations for live recording of labour and expenses resulting in a more efficient process and timely recording of information•Improved processes involving inventory control, purchasing procedures and expense auditing resulting in cost reduction and enhanced efficiencies•Managed the purchasing of fuel and performed consumption analysis resulting in improved costs and mitigation of risk•Managed the Payables Department and increased the details being provided to accounting which resulted in increased efficiencies

Halifax, Nova Scotia

CONTROLLER 2002 – 2008•Provided and prepared monthly/annual financial statements for all companies within the group and communicated financial position to the owners in a timely and accurate manner allowing prompt and informed business decisions to be made which improved revenues and reduced costs•Managed the yearend financial audits which impacted in a reduction of external audit fees by over 50%•Worked with the Director of Retail Operations to improve revenue of the companies including providing sales and cash flow budgets resulting in better revenue performance since the business grew and eventually then stabilized•Directed the Credit Department in collaboration with the AR Manager to provide an efficient and well run AR department. Goals of increased AR sales and reduced bad debt were achieved•Collaborated with the Assistant Controller to run an efficient payables department resulting in a stronger cash position and reduced lending fees•Enhanced the Service department to provide productivity reporting whereby service times were reduced and productivity increased•Managed the Warehouse by working with the supervisors to improve efficiency to reduce product transfer times. Liaised with warehouse and selling division concerning inventory flow which improved product stream to the stores resulting in increased sales, shrinkage monitoring, inventory reporting and budgeting which increased profit margin and lowered shrinkage to below the industry average•Managed all building maintenance and coordinated all aspects of new construction ventures from the ground up while acting as Project Manager /General Contractor or as the main liaison with the external General Contractor resulting in improved timelines and significant costs reductions

Business Management, Certificate

Canadian Institute Of Management Certification, Management

Business Technology (Co-Op Program), Management