Recruited to steer accounting functions for this heavy construction firm with $20M in annual revenues and 75 employees. Complete financial statements, job costing, and GL entries. Coordinate annual audit. Record new equipment purchases. Supervise in-house payroll including all remittances. Supervise two accounting / reception employees. Brought in a host of cost saving, productivity enhancing measures that cut the job’s time by 50%. Successfully converted a legacy DOS-based accounting program to Sage 300 CRE. Greatly reduced the amount of (hard copy) paperwork and offline spreadsheet usage. Went through a challenging annual audit unscathed despite being new to the job, converting to Sage, and while restoring financials (2x) after ransomware attacks due to network security vulnerabilities. Positioned company for seamless future audits by setting up files in alignment with auditor’s requirements. Implemented eSUB productivity software to allow for real time tracking (not paper) for field staff and offer greater insight into current projects’ status. After uncovering rampant credit card misuse, informed management and advised how to mitigate future unauthorized charges to company cards. Tightened up purchasing protocols by applying Sage 300 CRE Purchasing to maintain visibility of POs that previously went missing which resulted in escalated project budgets. Eradicated the long-standing issue of duplicating missing invoices by instituting a group email address dedicated to tracking all invoice submissions. Corporate designate for the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association Rental Committee mandated to set equipment rental rates for the province.

Completed all requirements of the MBA programme on 19 November 2017. Final GPA "A", or 85%.

Selected from 10+ candidates to steer the accounting functions at this self-supporting non-profit, government certified medical grade healthcare facility with $7M in annual revenues. Five departments (Rehab Clinic, Membership Operations, Community Services, Health & Fitness, and Administration) employ 75 staff and 40 contractors. Prepare month-end journal entries (post transactions, monthly bank reconciliation on a $2M bank account). Review invoices for payment. Verify all Human Resource transactions (new hires, terminations, transfers, promotions). Mentor an Accounting Assistant. Perform ad hoc and quarterly reports. Attend Board meetings. Continuously streamline, formalize, simplify and reorganize internal procedures.- Once hired, proactively mended broken relationships with Directors, Finance Department, and administrative staff by being approachable, positive, supportive and helpful.- Introduced a month-end recap for Directors that detailed departmental performance and any variances.- Changed budgeting process to allow Executive Director to have better picture of organization by taking the existing 54 budget documents and synthesizing them into a single, comprehensive, easy-to-read document.- Presented well-received variance notes on facility financial statements. Board now requires facility-wide.- Cut month-end procedures from 10 days to 5 days.- Documented work to allow others to come in and understand how to complete tasks.

Appointed to manage a $5M budget at the hub for CAF police operations. Prepared financial reports (weekly cash forecast and 10 expenditure analysis sheets each year). Performed cash flow analysis and Excel charts to simplify it for the non-financial staff. Financial management insight was relied upon by the Commander and Chief of Staff for all fiscally related decisions. Entrusted with workplace financial signing authority. Reviewed and approved all travel claims. Served as SharePoint administrator. Managed the professional performance of an Administrative Assistant (civilian), a Supply Technician (military), and a Chief Clerk (military). In tandem, conducted the administrative analysis on new policies and procedures. - Due to scrupulous oversight, had a major Canadian exercise come in $400K under budget. The previous year’s exercise was over budget by $600K with the same initial $1.6M allocation.- Brought the Group’s $4.5M budget to within 1%.- Identified an internal control issue across the Department that possibly allowed people to misuse DND paid airfare. After researching the issue and sharing findings, the practice ceased.- Created a SharePoint site with dashboard functionality that improves and tracks communication, scheduling, reporting, staffing coordination, and overall office productivity. - Advised members for optimal income tax preparation strategies.

Within the Comptroller Office, made critical decisions on multi-million dollar budgets. Leveraged strengths in analyzing and explaining the numerous financial administration policies to other Comptrollers. - Reconfigured the business planning spreadsheet to simplify allocations and make it easier to reconcile and explain to others.- Repeatedly asked by Wing Comptrollers from across the country to research various policies and report back with recommendations to proceed for complex issues such as Non-Public Funds purchases. - Completed 50+ annual “event requests” in sync with the Treasury Board’s new approval program. Processed individual and group travel claims for meetings and conferences over $5K and $25K with specific protocols for each price point. Reviewed briefing notes for clarity, accuracy and consistency for signing by many bureaucratic tiers up to the Minister of National Defence. Wrote training instructions for future reference.- Played a key role in mapping out the Divisions' $700M Business Plan. Considered spending priorities, human resources costs (military and civilian positions), and the Yearly Flighting Rate (YFR) for the planes.

Provided service-centric financial management and human resource administrative support and reporting.