James Mcwilliam Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

XE is a financial tech company that offers better foreign exchange rates than traditional banks. In this sales and account management role, I manage the private transfer and conversion of funds for HNW individuals. I call new prospects and work to get them onboard, and act as their main point-of-contact afterwards to manage and grow the account. Experience with Risk, Fraud, Global Financial Regulatory Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering initiatives.

Toronto, Canada Area

My 3 years of experience in a revenue generating role presented me with awesome opportunities for professional growth. I prospected at scale with cold calls, cold emails, LinkedIn and Instagram. I filmed Vidyard videos to earn the attention of tough non-responsive prospects. I posted on LinkedIn to build a personal brand as trusted expert advisor and remain top-of-mind. I managed key stakeholder relationships to build and deliver custom proposals to Directors, VPs, C-suite executives and their… Show more My 3 years of experience in a revenue generating role presented me with awesome opportunities for professional growth. I prospected at scale with cold calls, cold emails, LinkedIn and Instagram. I filmed Vidyard videos to earn the attention of tough non-responsive prospects. I posted on LinkedIn to build a personal brand as trusted expert advisor and remain top-of-mind. I managed key stakeholder relationships to build and deliver custom proposals to Directors, VPs, C-suite executives and their teams. I grew existing accounts through superior account management, QBRs and asking for referrals. I conducted difficult Post-Mortems and regained lost accounts after service failures. I trained new reps and openly shared knowledge with existing reps to increase company-wide win rate. After 4 great years with my team, I decided to pivot out of Operations and into Finance Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

After mastering the operations side, I decided to jump out of the comfort zone and into the growth zone with a Sales role that involved cold calling, booking new meetings, building proposals for new business and growing existing accounts

Toronto, Canada Area

I started at Mainfreight by diving into their operations and learning how the global trade infrastructure system is set up, from ports to rail to airports to warehouses and freight stations. I controlled ocean and air shipments from start to finish, from all over the world.

Yyz1 - Mississauga, On

At Amazon's flagship Canadian warehouse YYZ1, I rotated across the warehouse departments to learn about how Amazon manages it's complex internal operations. I built and implemented Kaizen continuous improvement projects, trained new team members, audited performance, and upon earning the title of Problem Solver was granted a higher degree of autonomy to challenge inefficient processes. Learned a lot about what it takes to run a warehouse, including the digital infrastructure required for… Show more At Amazon's flagship Canadian warehouse YYZ1, I rotated across the warehouse departments to learn about how Amazon manages it's complex internal operations. I built and implemented Kaizen continuous improvement projects, trained new team members, audited performance, and upon earning the title of Problem Solver was granted a higher degree of autonomy to challenge inefficient processes. Learned a lot about what it takes to run a warehouse, including the digital infrastructure required for keeping track of everything inbound, inside, and outbound. Show less

Waterloo, On

At Laurier I was hired to lead multiple weekly workshops as a review and supplement to in-class material. These experiences allowed me to hone presentation skills, audience engagement skills and accommodate different learning styles.

Midland, On

• Designed and implemented all activities, for all age groups, all day, for each 2-week cohort• Main point of contact for all camper problems • Spearheaded inter-departmental initiatives for resource allocation, employee delegation for large tasks and events and procedure reform • Overhauled outdated programming procedures by downsizing for efficiency and launching new, higher quality initiatives

Midland, On

• Delivery of daily hour-long multimedia workshops on the development of leadership skills• Management, mentoring, coaching and 24hr supervision of 60+ program participants• Successfully resolved/reconciled all personal conflicts between participants through mediation• Informally conducted surveys interviews and focus groups all summer to acquire feedback for future years

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration

• BBA with French minor • Winner of Laurier Alumni Award of Merit • Finalist in the prestigious ICE case competition • A- average

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

2-semester foreign student exchange • Skill and experience navigating cultural differences in personal and working environments •.