• Led development of an integrated global financial management roadmap to be deployed across the 34 countries served by the newly merged companies. This enabled transparent, consistent accounting operations and simultaneous support for local and corporate regulatory and internal information needs.

Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, Finance and Corporate Strategy 2005 - 2007• Created a risk management framework including management dashboards for Finance’s global operations prioritizing risk and compliance imperatives. • Championed transformation of accounting practices and technology from US centric to global reducing operating risk and costs and enabled off-shoring of select functions. Senior Vice President, Sarbanes Oxley Program Director 2003 - 2005•… Show more Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, Finance and Corporate Strategy 2005 - 2007• Created a risk management framework including management dashboards for Finance’s global operations prioritizing risk and compliance imperatives. • Championed transformation of accounting practices and technology from US centric to global reducing operating risk and costs and enabled off-shoring of select functions. Senior Vice President, Sarbanes Oxley Program Director 2003 - 2005• Spearheaded development of a global risk-based Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Program. Led a cross functional team of 700 stakeholders documenting 300 accounting and reporting processes and 100 supporting systems. Senior Vice President, Corporate Information Groups 1998 - 2003• Spearheaded development of administrative shared service and technology organizations supporting Human Resources, Finance, Sourcing and Marketing and select business lines. First Vice President, Financial Information Group 1991 - 1998• Oversaw consolidation of U.S. administrative service centers producing annual savings of upwards of 50% of pre-consolidation cost. Vice President, Corporate Projects 1988 - 1991• Created a financial management and technology infrastructure to support efforts to turn Mellon around, reducing the period end reporting cycle from 11+ to 5 days and dramatically improving the completeness and transparency of information. Show less

At the time Canada’s third largest bank employing in excess of 28,000 people providing full retail and commercial banking services through more than 1,000 domestic branches and a variety of banking services through offices in nearly 20 other countries. Held various positions of increasing responsibility in Finance, Internal Audit, Special Projects and General Banking. Select accomplishments include; • Coordinated the largest acquisition of a US Bank by a non-US organization to that time… Show more At the time Canada’s third largest bank employing in excess of 28,000 people providing full retail and commercial banking services through more than 1,000 domestic branches and a variety of banking services through offices in nearly 20 other countries. Held various positions of increasing responsibility in Finance, Internal Audit, Special Projects and General Banking. Select accomplishments include; • Coordinated the largest acquisition of a US Bank by a non-US organization to that time (Harris Bank and Trust, Chicago) • Developed operations and customer service strategy for a 17,000 employee domestic banking organization. This improved customer focus at the customer interface point and reduced administrative cost• Re-engineered world-wide Management Accounting, Planning and Forecasting processes enabling multi-currency planning, reducing the planning cycle from months to weeks and improving the integrity of data• Championed development and implementation of a comprehensive accounting and financial reporting infrastructure. Over a 3+ year period 23 projects including introduction of the first computerized general ledger, contemporary information management techniques and technologies and upgrades to the on-line banking system were completed transforming the financial control structure of the company. • Established an Audit program for North American’s largest on-line banking operation at that time. Show less