Mark Gamble Email & Phone Number

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Ontario, Canada

Business Development and Business Reviews for international consulting group. Responsible for developing new business leads, performing needs analysis, writing business proposals and following through with clients on their needs.

Systems implementation / conversion for publicly listed group acquired by Brookfield. Main focus on systems conversion, re-designing and testing of financial systems. Systems selection, systems design, testing, , implementation & remediation planning, system documentation & training, management reporting, operational reviews, sub-system implementation and documentation, acquisition reviews and conversion to corporate systems.

Publicly listed real estate company. Compliance, risk assessment, operational review and re-engineering of processes project. Division reviewed handled mortgages under power of sale for major banks and financial institutions across Canada and subsequent filing of claims with CMHC and Genworth. Project comprised review for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, process mapping & re-engineering, risks assessment and the management reporting associated with asset recoveries.

Canada’s largest newspaper group, part of Quebecor Media. Sarbanes-Oxley project – senior auditor writing test scripts, assessing control designs, sample testing, writing reviews to management, compiling document files etc.

Company handles Toronto Stock Exchange trades and other instruments for banks, brokerage houses and the Bank of Canada. Consulted on various operational and IT issues on compliance matters under Bill 198. Completed 3 different projects – billings process, forecasting and purchasing.

Truck and engine manufacturer (Ex Navistar Corp): Worked with three other accountants on restatement of financial results for 2003 – 2006 to ensure US GAAP compliance, included reconciliations of systems and ledgers.

Rail car manufacturer, repair & leasing group: Reviewed Sarbanes-Oxley documentation and attended to internal & external audit testing; assisted with remediation plans & corrective action including implementation of standard costing system; process mapping and investigative review of internal processes as well as special projects for the executives.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Major global advertising & communications agency: Sarbanes-Oxley consultant for their Los Angeles office. Performed reviews of all operations, drew up narratives, did key control compliance, identified control shortcomings and drew up & monitored remediation plans, kept updated online records, performed ongoing analysis work with status reports for head office in Paris, France. Extensive travel involved.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hired to review and update internal accounting system, to review their internal business processes, take care of CRA audits, create operating budgets and draw up their medium term business plans that included reviewing potential acquisitions.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Audit review for the annual Financial statements relative to year end contractual obligations across the company in Canada.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Architectural firm specializing in educational buildings. Performed consulting role: business plan, short-term action plan, cash flow forecasting development, project costing implementation, accounting system conversion

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Construction & manufacturing of very large tunnel boring equipment: Performed controller duties, quarterly reporting, cash flow forecasting, detailed costing on manufacturing and servicing activities, budgeting, system implementation, set up & review of internal controls for audit purposes, process mapping.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Laboratory management group for University Health Network (Toronto General, Princess Margaret & Toronto Western hospitals). Performed Director of Finance duties, monthly reporting, budgets, analytical reports, set up activity-based costing system, did quarterly reporting to Board of Directors

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

High tech start-up company: Was sold to a publicly listed TSE organization. Performed CFO duties – strategic plans, budgets, goals, monthly reporting, arranged venture capital and attended to take-over & due diligence documents.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Wallpaper manufacturing company: Subsidiary of world’s largest2000 manufacturer of wallpaper. Responsible for controllership and cost management duties pertaining to the operation. Assisted with implementation of new operational and costing IT system and was asked to handle annual audit when Director of Finance left days before external auditors arrived.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Construction & project management company for large construction projects across North America. Performed controllership duties, setting budgets, strategic plans, internal controls, policies & procedures etc. Researched, selected and implemented operational software package for estimating, recording costs and reporting to management.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Large residential, condominium and commercial construction and development company – was a subsidiary of IntraWest, the resort development and management company. Performed controllership duties including quarterly reports to partners on approximately 15 different construction projects. Assisted with review and selection of new accounting system to address Y2K compliance

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abattoir & meat packaging group: Set up new measurements (Activity Based Costing and time & motion studies) and costing format for plant processing up to 5,000 hogs per day. Re-engineered production lines that reduced costs materially, in one case by 32% on their largest production line. Performed other operational reviews as requested by management.

Cma, Accounting, Costing Etc.

CMA - International examinations - England 2nd Place in the World in Business & Industrial Administration

Cis, Accounting, Corp. Law & Economics

1st Place in South Africa in Advanced Economics

Diploma Of Education, Ifrs - International Financial Reporting Standards, Pass

Conducted by Professor from Windsor University who headed up the IFRS compliance group in Ontario.

Diploma, Marketing/Marketing Management, General, First Class Pass

Marketing Management Diploma - covering all aspects of corporate marketing in the business world.