Jeffrey Kishner Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Advised a Private Equity-owned in-store marketing company by designing and building an FP&A team and enhancing the client's analytical and decision making capabilities. During this engagement, I successfully:- Negotiated a new strategic agreement with the company’s largest retail customer that elevated the relationship and positioned the company increase its share of business with the customer;- Implemented and led action-oriented monthly reviews with sales & operations to accelerate revenue growth and shift the mentality of the organization towards new business generation;- Advised on two expense reduction initiatives that have reduced expenses by $20 million (8%);- Developed a sales pipeline reporting framework to enhance revenue forecasting and enable metrics-based management of sales opportunities and plant capacity planning.Advised a major publicly-traded commercial real estate company (retail) on how to reduce the budget process cycle-time by 50% and led the implementation of a new budgeting and forecasting tool.

Toronto, Canada Area

Finance Committee memberHuman Resources Committee member

Toronto, Canada Area

Reporting to the CFO, built a Financial Planning & Analysis team of 5 finance professionals who are driving a massive transformation initiative through enhancing analytical, budgeting, forecasting and pricing capabilities and providing strategic and operational advice to the company’s executives.Enhanced the company’s strategic focus by creating a Strategy Map for the company’s Vision 2017 and Mission 2015; participated in bi-monthly executive strategy sessions with the CEO’s direct reports and redesigned the quarterly business unit review framework.Redesigned monthly management reporting and analytics by introducing innovative new reporting frameworks and identifying fact-based actionable insights to drive the company’s performance against its strategic and financial targets. Reduced the month-end reporting cycle time by 7 days to deliver a comprehensive 60-page management reporting deck by Day 8 after month-end.Drove focus on the company’s key performance-drivers by implementing monthly Corporate and Business Unit Scorecards, launching daily metrics for the company’s two largest business units, redesigning the daily revenue forecast and implementing robust monthly project benefit tracking and revenue analytics.Reengineered the Costing & Pricing process by establishing governance and role-clarity. Developed new models used to price and measure the profitability of $218 million of new and existing business, leading to $24 million of annualized new business.Redesigned the Budgeting & Forecast processes and models to reduce the cycle time by one week and improve the depth and accuracy of the outputs.

Toronto, Canada Area

Defined the Strategic Business Partnering model for Shared Services by establishing an operating rhythm for monthly reporting and enhancing strategic & decision support. Drove key components of Aviva’s operational and cultural transformation by providing strategic, financial and operational advice to executives in the Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Underwriting, IT, Strategy, Operations, Risk Management & Internal Audit units in both Canada and the USA. Led and advised on initiatives that have generated over $250M annual benefits.Built a high-performing Business Partnering team that managed strategic & financial planning, forecasting, monthly reporting and financial decision-support for the business units I supported and implemented an expense cube that enabled a 50% reduction in the time to complete the monthly reporting process while using fewer resources and significantly improving data integrity.

Toronto, Canada Area

Enhanced financial controls by redesigning the quarter-close process to achieve revenue recognition compliance. Shaped Nortel's go-to-market strategy by advising on ways to enhance value of Nortel's relationship with its Distributors. Led several cross-functional teams focused on process improvements and revenue growth initiatives.

Toronto, Canada Area

Played a leadership role in Nortel's transformational change agenda while managing a staff of 15 employees who processed and validated orders placed by Nortel's Enterprise channel partners. Responsible for the customer experience from the time an order was placed until the order was fulfilled, and fulfilled approximately 30,000 orders representing over US$200M of revenue.Oversaw the successful migration of 25 channel partners from Nortel’s four legacy order management systems to SAP. Led the negotiations with Qwest to coordinate its system migration with Nortel’s and played a leadership role in the redesign of the North American Order Management & Fulfillment organizations to adapt to the new SAP environment and to prepare for the sale of Nortel’s manufacturing facilities to Flextronics Corp.

Toronto, Canada Area

Enhanced governance and reduced credit risk by establishing new SOX compliant corporate procedures for extending credit to customers, which were approved by the Board of Directors. Managed the credit review process and recommended credit limits for over 300 customers, suppliers and financial counterparties globally.Represented Nortel on the Secured Creditors Committee during the bankruptcy of a large US public company and negotiated a 100% recovery of Nortel’s exposure.Graduated from the Leadership Edge program, where I was one of only 10 finance professionals globally selected to participate in the re-launching of the program in 2003.

Toronto, Canada Area

Advised corporate clients in the Utilities sector on M&A and capital markets transactions.

Toronto, Canada Area

Published innovative and comprehensive reports on several companies in the Real Estate and Transportation sectors to provide institutional investors with data-driven stock recommendations. Developed financial models used to value the companies covered and met with industry executives (CEOs and CFOs) to discuss current valuations.

Toronto, Canada Area

Advised corporate clients on equity financing and M&A transactions. Assessed the firm's entrance into the high-yield debt market and presented a recommendation that was endorsed by the CEO. Created the NBF preferred share "pitch book" based on my analysis of the preferred share market for Canadian issuers. Drafted the Offering Memorandum and led the due diligence activities on a successful $6M equity-financing for a consumer products company.

Mba, Finance & Strategy

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma; Dean's List; Vice President of Financial Management Association (elected); Member of Simon.

Ba (Honours), Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Reporter - McGill Tribune

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