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Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Technical staff supporting the implementation and application of IFRS S1: General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2: Climate-related Disclosures.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Key advisor in capital markets, technical accounting, and financial reporting. Extensive experience in IFRS, US GAAP, UK GAAP, and ASPE. I have assisted my clients through various transactions (IPO, acquisition, carve-outs, GAAP transition) and consulted on deal and transaction accounting implications.CMAAS lead for ESG reporting with client experience reporting under TCFD, SASB, and GRI voluntary frameworks as well as providing insight to developing frameworks (including SEC, ISSB, and CSA's NI 51-107) .

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Audit manager for Canadian private and public companies reporting under ASPE and IFRS as well as Canadian based PCAOB regulated companies.

Travelled South East Asia and New Zealand, focusing on zero waste practices and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.Designed a live Google Sheet budget and forecast to closely monitor income and expense occurring in nine separate currencies, while improving effectiveness of foreign currency transactions. With the data compiled, wrote a research paper about effective utilization of funds while travelling internationally through the use of modern financial technology tools and businesses.

London, United Kingdom

Audit team Manager for a financial technology business’s £300 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange. - Lead an audit team of six, based in both London and California, performing an audit over a set of three years’ ‘look back’ financial statements and the company’s prospectus; - Liaised frequently between management, the capital markets advisory team, and the audit team; - Worked closely with clients advising on the bridge between private and public company standards while facilitating positive working relationships throughout challenging workloads.Lead assurance procedures over six acquisition transactions totaling over $1b in value. - Transactions carried out across Europe, the UK, Canada, and the USA; - Directed and managed multiple site visits, actuarial valuations, and year-end onsite inventory counts; - Acquisitions include intricate transition funding, bargain gains, deferred tax assets and liabilities; - Completed review and approval of acquisition and integration accounting as well as appropriate IFRS 3 (business combinations) disclosures within three separate years’ financial statements. Primary department resource for Financial Conduct Authority Client Asset (CASS) audits. - Supported clients in their first year of CASS compliance. Completed in-depth reading and assessment of applicable sections of the standards and reviewed implementation and operation of controls in their compliance processes; - Coached throughout the department on ‘best practices’ in executing a control based audit, including improved process walkthrough documentation, interim testing, and efficient approaches to requesting documentation; - Audit passed a rigorous multi-step internal quality review from our financial services team who specialize in CASS compliance with no required adjustments.Improved profitability for over £400k in client fees and negotiated additional fees of over £60k following scope changes and project overruns;

London, United Kingdom

Provided statutory and non-statutory assurance services to international private and public clients with revenues ranging from £1m to £250m within our technology and media department. - Involved with preparation of board presentation documents and attended board and audit committee meetings; - Client portfolio primarily included fintech, tech, and fast-growth business; - Reviewed audit work for going concern assessments in periods of liquidity issues; sensitive FV calculations to support asset value; implementation of IFRS 9, with adjustments for cumulative expected credit loss, and IFRS 15; - Daily responsibilities included understanding all financially material processes within an organization; including process flow, risks, risks’ impact on the financials and going concern, and controls implemented to mitigate risks.

Stamford, Ct And New York, Ny

Audit team Senior Associate during the carve out and sale transaction of a $1 billion portion of our client’s business. - Managed daily updates to our Senior Manager on status of control and substantive testing progress which drove the work allocation to our eight-person team; - Performed detailed and timely audit work over the new entity’s working capital allocation and cash flow, classification of corporate expenses, and intangible assets.Completed three PCAOB and SOX 404 year-end audits and nine quarterly reviews with a multinational media client. - Assurance work involved site visits in Minneapolis, MN and Toronto, ON and testing in goodwill impairment review, intangible asset capitalization, global cash management and treasury, debt shelf issuance, and cash flow; - Contributed to the preparation of board and audit committee presentation documents; - Involved in the directing and managing of all component and IT teams in the US, UK, Canada, and India to cover +1,000 company controls. Completed walkthrough and process documentation for company’s intangible asset, financial disclosure preparation, quarterly and year-end financial review, payroll, and treasury processes.

Stamford, Connecticut

Team member during the carve-out and reorganization of a $300 million revenue portion of Journal Communications and E. W. Scripps newspaper businesses, forming the new organization Journal Media Group. - Involved with process documentation and walkthrough, and allocation testing of company cash, receivables, payables and fixed assets.

Developed and supported student activities campus wide, including small student events and campus concerts.

Worked in Development in the Workers Compensation products and services.

Performed store opening and closing procedures. Managed and provided feedback to fellow employees, and was responsible for meeting reservation and subscription numbers.