Laura Visentin Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, On

Toronto, On

» Implemented the ZBB (Zero-Based Budgeting) methodology to drive savings across the business by focusing on type of cost and accountability, deeply involved in 2017 and 2018 bottom-up budgeting process» Analyzed monthly results for >$200M of spend in Corporate G&A expenses, providing KPIs and stories for key drivers of variances, challenging the expenses and identifying key risks & opportunities » Presented monthly expense results to multiple business partners (70+) and Senior Leadership Team (VPs & above) » Independently responsible for managing and reporting of Supply Chain Overhead expenses and smaller ZBB packages/functions» Maintain ongoing relationships through added-value discussions on cost-saving opportunities and offset risks to the budget» Collaborated with G&A manager to develop monthly forecasts and identify risks & opportunities

Waterloo, On

» Assisted students in the completion of weekly assignments and quizzes for various introductory and advanced mathematics courses » Responsible for running multiple labs/tutorials throughout the day

Toronto, On

» Provided support to the Finance team from a financial planning/budgeting, analysis, forecasting, and reporting perspective» Responsible for month-end analysis and forecast preparation with a focus on Net Sales Revenue » Developed a profitability report for management analyzing various aspects of each SKU to assist in determining which products were most profitable in each region

Markham, On

» Assisted in the financial month-end close processes, gathered and consolidated financial information and investigated variances » Worked on special requests in support of the manager and senior financial analysts such as budget analyses, updating financial reports, preparing journal entries and reporting on the business unit’s monthly and YTD financial performance» Drafted quarterly emails for sector leaders analyzing business sector’s financial results

» Completed invoice review, audit and analysis» Worked monthly on accruals and journal transfers» Worked on triage team to fix IT issues from go-live of new Finance platform » Consolidated large sums of data into summarized spreadsheets » Supported Finance managers on various ad-hoc requests

Certificate In Pricing

Certificate In Big Data Analytics

Honours Bachelor Of Business Administration & Honours Ba Financial Mathematics, Finance

Activities and Societies: Dean's Honour List

High School Diploma