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Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• FP&A and budgeting role to support the budget oversight and long term fiscal planning for the City of Toronto.
• Supporting the operating and capital budgets of City Planning, Waterfront Revitalization Initiative, Transit Expansion, Policy, Planning, Finance & Administration, and 82 local business improvement area (BIA).
• Variance reporting, trend analysis to advise on budget adjustments, and drafting the financial assessments of public reports.
• Identified opportunities to reduce budget pressure by right-sizing the budgets.
• Modeled the $1.25 billion investment in flood protection and its financing strategy.
• Drafted 6 staff reports for BIA operating budgets.

• Short term role to support a corporate division with over $206 million in operating and $1.3 billion in the 10 year capital plan.
• Added the Facilities, Real Estate, Environment & Energy division to existing portfolio.
• Advised on budgetary impacts of the Union Station Revitalization and the St. Lawrence Market North Redevelopment projects.

• Short term role to remotely help set up the financial processes for a recently acquired startup.
• Led the month end, quarter end and year end reporting for the US based agency while supervising staff and reporting to management remotely.
• Implemented new controls to add structure to the start up by requiring documentation with journal entries, proper approval chains, confidentiality policies, and designed new bank reconciliations that were automated.
• Completed the IFRS 16 policy change for the start up's multiple office leases by maintaining an amortization schedule of the capital leases and to maintain a separate schedule for the expensing of operating leases.
• Identified process changes such as establishing a set schedule for billing to prevent back dating of invoices and clear segregation of duties to move the agency towards SOX compliance.

Toronto, Ontario

• Financial reporting role over four business units that involved managing the full cycle operations and presenting financial analysis to senior management.
• Responsible for monthly reporting for four business units and supporting the budget/forecast.
• Worked with HQ to provide analysis commentary on financial performance and forecasts.
• Handled f/x conversions and provided monthly analysis on swings.
• Trained and supervised junior accountant.
• Supported SOX compliance and performing/reviewing monthly reconciliations of balance sheet items.

Toronto, Ontario

• Client facing role to provide oversight of the client's marketing budget and working with the account team to provide accurate forecasts of the budget.
• Supported budgeting process on a major client account and produced monthly forecasts for client use.
• Enhanced efficiency and user friendliness of budgeting process.
• Tightened billing and budget controls to reduce client over billing.
• Produced annual agency negotiation analysis report for management's review.
• Attended client quality control audits and handled inquiries.

Toronto, Ontario

• Co-op role to help test and implement the new corporate G/L system.
• Managed a small team to complete testing of security access.
• Learned SQL coding.

Toronto, Ontario

• Co-op role to review employee expense reports for compliance to policies and learning about the energy sector.
• Automated the tracking file, reducing likelihood of errors.
• Developed a new sampling technique and created documentation to standardize the procedure.