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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Recruited to be CFO to turn around and grow business. Responsible for Finance, Operations, Legal, Regulatory and Compliance, and Human Resources.HIGHLIGHTS:■ Led Leadership Team through Development of new Strategy – Tripled Commercial Sales, Doubled Mass Markets RCEs on flow, and delivered Operating Profit on Plan.■ Negotiated favorable supplier terms on $100 million wholesale trading facility. ■ Standardized all Retail Contracts across all ISOs. ■ Built 5-year Financial Plan and led Leadership Team through development of Agenda creating organizational alignment.

Financial Consulting for various clients in Energy Retail, Home Services, Energy Consulting, and Financial Services.

Houston, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Promoted to this position in order to help turn around the Direct Energy Residential operation and facilitate profitable organic growth. In this position, directed and coached a team of 25-30 in Canada and the US and reported to the President of the Business. Planned and administered a $7 million annual budget, with delegated spend authority of $1 million (commodity and tax up to $25 million), as well as overseeing financial planning and analysis, business performance management, accounting, control, decision support, and other financial functions. Served on multiple boards and committees for Direct Energy, including the Financial Risk Management Committee, DER Leadership Team, and Finance Leadership Team. HIGHLIGHTS:■ Reduced planning cycle by 6 weeks and provided a rolling 36-month forecast through leading project to integrate strategic planning with financial plans and transition the business to a driver-based planning model.■ Rebuilt the entire Finance team from scratch and partnered with the leadership team in establishing new direction; implemented new objectives to support the business in its turnaround and developed new set of KPIs to track progress.■ Led Finance team in all financial modeling to support all commercial decisions, including $16 million partnership with Nest, $10 million deal with Plenti, and cross-selling of services.■ Directed steering committee and provided detailed guidance to working group that improved gross margin forecasting accuracy by 25-30%, reducing load forecasting error, building out a cash month p/l, and implementing new controls over pricing, billing, estimation, and settlements. ■ Rolled out a People Agenda to engage team that delivered personal development plans for all, twice a year communications meetings, skip-a-level meetings, 1-to-1s for all, and training and development opportunities that resulted in world class Manager Index scores and zero voluntary people turnover during tenure.

Houston, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Promoted to lead a team of 35 in Canada and the US in financial planning and analysis, business performance management, accounting and control, portfolio management, and decision support for a $5 billion business (the 2nd largest commercial and industrial retail energy supplier in North America) as a member of the executive leadership team. Planning and administering an annual budget of ~$7 million, implemented strategies to meet and surpass budget objectives. In addition, sat on multiple key committees.HIGHLIGHTS: ■ Spearheaded efforts in growing the business from $60 million of operating profit to $215 million over a 4+-year period as the Financial Lead, achieving operating profit target each year of tenure.■ Directed full-scale reorganization that led to $14 million of annualized savings through streamlining of operations and reduction of handoffs.■ Introduced multiple strategies to yield positive outcomes; refined pricing to optimize return on capital, led efforts in extending payment terms to key customers, implemented revolving securitization, increased focus on days sales outstanding to improve competitiveness, led effort to review risk premiums in cost of goods sold, delivered bolt-on acquisitions, and built a segmented p/l to improve focus on small business performance.■ Led valuation and finance workstreams for $1 billion acquisition of Hess Energy Marketing. Presented business case to the Centrica Board of Directors for approval.

Houston, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Placed in role to improve the accuracy of financial reporting and reverse prior issues with accounting and control. In this position, directed all aspects of financial planning and analysis, accounting, and the financial reporting functions, as well as overseeing a $2 million annual budget ($100,000 of authority). Managing a staff of 13, created strategies for my team to reach their highest potential. HIGHLIGHTS:■ Consolidated accounting team in Pittsburgh from 4 areas (Houston, Toronto, Calgary, and Pittsburgh), reducing number of FTEs from 16 to 8 through talent upgrades and process improvements.■ Directed implementation of financial controls across the $5 billion revenue business. Planned effort and signed off on the final approach, reviewed all process documentation, identified control gaps, and prioritized gap closure.■ Built new balance sheet package to review all balance sheet accounts, as well as implementing monthly review process, new gross margin causal to explain variances, and a monthly financial review.■ Achieved record of zero audit adjustments in 2010.

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

OVERVIEW:As the Group Head of Financial Accounting & Reporting for $40 billion revenue business, led the external audit and annual reporting process, with full responsibility for sign-off of all London Stock Exchange external announcements and the Annual Report. HIGHLIGHTS:■ Launched process to raise £2.2 billion from existing shareholders via a Share Offering to fund acquisition of a stake in nuclear generator British Energy. Offering represented quickest public offering that Linklater’s had ever been involved in; worked with Goldman Sachs and syndicate of banks through due diligence, stress tests, pricing, and preparation of offering document. ■ Led project to implement IFRS 7 (Financial Instruments Disclosures)

Houston, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:As the Controller, led a team of 20 in the consolidation of 100 legal entities, technical accounting, and all financial reporting functions.HIGHLIGHTS:■ Drove transition of accounting and reporting from Canadian GAAP to IFRS standards; additionally led the accounting workstream for the implementation of SAP general ledger, A/R, payroll, and fixed assets.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

OVERVIEW:Manager, Derivatives Reporting, Corporate Treasury Finance (2004-2005)Manager, Income Statement and Loans Reporting, Head Office Accounting (2003-2004)Manager, Balance Sheet Reporting, Head Office Accounting (2002-2003)Assistant Manager, Technical Accounting, Head Office Accounting (2000-2002)Senior Analyst, Securitization (2000)I built a consistent record of achievement and advancement over a 5-year period with the largest banking institution in Canada, leading teams of up to 12.HIGHLIGHTS:■ Developed and implemented leading-edge hedge accounting program for Mortgage Banking; interacted with the FASB staff and convinced them to reconsider issuance of DIG G25.■ Guided team of 12 in providing consolidated income statement and loans reporting (internally and externally) as well as preparing notes to financial statement; previously led team of 10 in the same activities.■ Hand-selected to lead accounting workstream for RBC’s 1st retail acquisition in the U.S., a $3 billion acquisition of Centura Bank. Additionally directed $1 billion credit card securitization and a $750 million issuance of innovative Tier 1 capital.■ Led adoptions of FAS 140 (Transfer of Assets) and FIN 46 (Special Purpose Entities).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics