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• Foster a supportive and inclusive environment to empower students to overcome challenges, achieve their academic potential, and prepare for successful careers.
• Help students navigate their educational journey by providing guidance on course selection and academic planning.
• Offer referrals and resources to various support services within the college to optimize the student experience.
• Guide students with problem solving and effective communication with professors and classmates.
• Identify at-risk students and provide resources for improvement.
• Advise students on academic processes, policies and assist in navigating college systems.

Guelph, Ontario

Waterloo, Ontario

• Provided business operations support to a leading edge, multi-site software development team of 350 engineers. Nominated to roll out new corporate tools and initiatives intended to increase efficiencies. Served as.
• Procurement Management
• Recruitment and Onboarding
• Workforce & Resource Planning
• Process Improvement
• Budget Management and Reporting

Waterloo, Ontario

• Managed high volume/high profile key vendor accounts. Extensive accounting experience in general ledger analysis and month and quarter end financial procedures and reporting.
• Reviewed accuracy and completeness of invoice entries and payments, processed refunds, expense reports and petty cash. Strong attention to detail and accuracy developed.
• Was selected and trained as the group time administrator, journal entry administrator as well as the secondary payment administrator.
• Prepared and printed cheques, created and distributed monthly financial reports, prepared bank deposits, processed wire and Automatic Clearing House (ACH) transactions.
• Established strong vendor and supplier relationships, investigated issues on behalf of individuals within the organization.

Cambridge, Ontario

• Supervised staff of 2 accounts payable associates and assisted the controller.
• Directed all AP activities and issue resolution in the following areas; vouchers, vendor payments, expense reimbursements, and reporting.
• Established and monitored the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures.
• Developed and maintained customer and vendor relationships through face to face interactions.
• Trained and developed AP personnel to perform at a high rate of accuracy and productivity and created an AP training manual for company and ISO certification.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsible for providing financial support to ensure effective, efficient and accurate financial and administrative operations.
• Processed all accounts payable computer produced cheques and prepared urgent manual cheques.
• Directed all AP activities and issue resolution in the following areas: financial reconciliations, coding of expenditures, journaling, forecasting, cost recovery, chargebacks.
• Reviewed, coded and obtained approvals for expense reports.
• Monitored signing authority limits of all department heads.
• Assisted signing officers in choosing appropriate expense account numbers of all incoming invoices and expenses.