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Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

The Heather Hospitality Group manages and performs all of the accounting and administration of a group of 10 restaurants and cafés in downtown Vancouver, including Salt Tasting Room and the Irish Heather.Duties• Prepared monthly and yearly financial reports for Director decision making, including balance sheets, income statements, aged overdue supplier reports and expense account transaction reports• Performed timely general ledger account reconciliations• Maintained effective accounts payable functions through timely credit card and cheque payments• Filed Government GST, Payroll Source Deductions and WCB reports • Assisted in the payroll of over 120 employees and maintained employee recordsAccomplishments• Redesigned and streamlined the accounting processes of all 10 restaurants and cafés to provide meaningful reports to the Directors• Helped design the use of a separate management corporation that will centralize intercompany transactions/loans and will simplify the hospitality groups current accounting process• Improved the petty/float cash procedures to better reflect the inflow and outflow of company resources

Vancouver, Canada Area

Duties• Managed the implementation of key operational projects including Point of Sale installation, inventory management, payroll time sheets and merchant processor migration• Performed cost analysis on business processes for best resource allocation• Controlled the ordering of products for all seven café/restaurant locationsAccomplishments• Analyzed various restaurant cost centers which resulted in cost savings of approximately $25,000 per year• Assisted in the opening of a restaurant including acquiring the business and liquor licenses, equipment purchasing and onsite support during the first month of operation

Vancouver, Canada Area

Duties• Managed and prepared quarter end analytics reports for institutional clients and endowment funds• Performed data entry for the monthly transactions in client funds• Assisted in money manager searches by producing manager profiles and manager analyticsAccomplishments• Developed excel based models with Microsoft query per consultant/client requests

Weesp, The Netherlands

The Financial Shared Service Center’s (FSSC) Projects main goal was to centralize the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes from all European Offices into its Shared Service Center in the Czech Republic.Duties• Conducted analysis and research to build a better understanding of key challenges and evaluated potential solutions for the FSSC project• Collaborated with LEAR Europe stakeholders to build commitment to, and generate involvement in, implementation of the major Business Operating modelAccomplishments• Provided enough management and mentor support to successfully transfer the Accounts Receivable department from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic

Weesp, The Netherlands

Duties• Performed the cash application of payments received from Lear plants in Europe• Managed sales balances falling due and contacted customers before the balances became overdue• Prepared overdue debt reporting for Senior management as well as weekly/monthly Accounts Receivable balance reports to the Lear plant managers• Participated in the transition of the Dutch shared service center to Brno, Czech Republic, by training the new credit control team and acted as the main credit control contact person during the changeAccomplishments• Managed and supervised internal customer receivable accounts and reduced overdue debt by 35%• Promoted to participate in the FSSC project based on my leadership, organizational and training skills provided during the transition of the Dutch shared service center to the Czech Republic

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Bachelor Of Business Administration, Financial Accounting

In part of my Social Entreprenuership course I volunteered at the Okanagan Jazz and Blues Society where I: •Worked with the President.

International Business

•Participated in an exchange semester that specifically dealt with the expansion of strategic markets between Canada and the EU •Developed.