Mike Hodes - Cpa, Ca (Canada), Fca (Uk) Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

The CFO Centre provides part-time CFOs to small and mid-market organizations at a fraction of the cost of a full-time CFO. The CFO Centre's services include business and strategic plan development, financial reporting, cash flow management, internal control, risk assessment and mitigation, training and development, and commercial negotiations.

Woodbridge, Ontario, Ca

Danavation, a public company listed on the CSE (DVN), is a leading provider of micro e-paper displays. Its Digital Smart Labels™—powered by cutting edge IoT M2M automation technology and a proprietary software platform—enable retailers, grocers, healthcare providers, and manufacturing and logistics companies to automate labelling, pricing, product information, and promotions in real time.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Public Relations and Communications Services.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Jasper, a public company listed on the TSX-V (Toronto), is a Middleware SaaS Product Information Management solution that empowers eCommerce merchants to manage and merchandise their products from a single source of truth.Reported to the Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Responsible for the day to day financial management of the company, presenting financials to the Board, preparing the quarterly financials and MD&A for public filing on the TSX-V, Company Secretary, payroll and benefits, HR, banking relationships, insurance, property management, customer and vendor contracts, employment contracts and assisting in the SR&ED process. Accomplishments:• Managed all aspects of the financial reporting, IFRS conversion and audit process on route to listing the company (via RTO) on the TSX Venture Exchange • Created defensible 5 year financial model as part of several successful fund raising exercises• Implemented robust rolling 12 month cash flow model that ensured timely Board decision making • Secured SAAS contract factoring facility • Reduced risks associated with US employment contracts and US tax compliance• During the due diligence of a potential acquisition uncovered material risk areas, some not immediately obvious

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

London, Gb

Casewise was a part-VC backed technology and consulting company headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, France and Canada. $20m Revenue, 100 employees.Responsible for: financial management, banking, legal, insurance, audits, tax, property management, payroll and setting up those functions overseas. At times responsible for a sales function, IT and HR. Accomplishments:• Despite periods of extreme variability in performance never had to revert to shareholders for additional funding• In years where there was a strain on working capital: secured payment plans with UK and French tax authorities, key suppliers and the landlord; and negotiated faster payment of customer invoices • Won two UK R&D grants ($800k) for product development• Secured a $2m invoice factoring facility and access to a vital short-term bank overdraft• Restructured internal royalty and management recharge (shared services) that resulted in a lower corporation tax liability. Successfully defended treatment from a US State Tax Audit• Created an online monthly financial dashboard for the Board of Directors and Country Managers that gave the users the ability to run bespoke reports • Rolled out an accounting system that enabled consultants to enter their billable timesheets and employees to enter their expenses directly into the system which eliminated manual re-keying in and established tiered sign off controls • Restructured finance team (twice) to reduce head count cost and to centralise function in the head office• Implemented a contract management system that ensured that the possibility of missing a customer re-billing was reduced to near zero• Reduced month end close to 4 days across a company with a 9 hour time zone difference between offices• 20 years of managing the annual external audit cycle with no material management letter points raised• Introduced and acted on detailed process monitoring reports to get at the root cause of A/R collection problems

London, Gb

Reported to the Part-time Finance Director. Responsible for the day to day financial management of the company. Staff of 2.Accomplishments:• Achieved clean review following UK tax inspection• Successfully implemented a unified accounting system across all legal entities in the UK and US • Created accounting system manuals specific to the requirements of the company• Cleaned up US Sales Tax position by working proactively with the Multistate Tax Commission

London, Gb

Trained and supervised local and international staff in new accounting system, SUN Accounts.

Preparing deal valuations, and A&R and record profitability reports.

London, Gb

As Audit Senior responsibilities included the management of on-site audits and preparation of statutory accounts and corporation tax computations. Experience of music royalty audits and restructuring of accounts from incomplete records.

Education record

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting And Finance