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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Perform due diligence pre, during, and post-acquisitions. - Post-Merger ERP consolidation and properly integrating their systems to reduce costs of key business functions.- Coordinate with different departments and align processes during the M&A lifecycle.- Set reasonable and achievable KPIs during acquisitions and ensure they are met.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Increased team efficiency by leading the continuous process improvement across different departments and levels of the organization. - Managed financial aspects of transactions that Givex is the Merchant of Record within North America and other regions globally.- Identified areas of opportunities to improve efficiencies and close gaps within different teams.- Setup settlement of funds through EFT/ACH file transmission at the banks.- Reduced annual costs by working closely with global payment processors and disputing fraudulent activities and chargebacks.

- Set processes to improve productivity for new and existing products.- Analyzed data and the company’s workflow within different teams.- Worked closely with banks and managed settlement of funds through EFT/ACH file transmission.- Controlled and validated payments and billing of major clients.- Handled ACH returns and rejections and reprocessed them at the bank.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the team, distributing the workload evenly amongst the team and making sure motivation and performance levels are maintained. - Proactively assessed impacts of any problems that may have raised and reduced errors, especially the ones that directly impacted our clients.- Vetted orders and agreements to ensure that SLAs are consistently met.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Leaded the team to ensure accuracy and escalated issues in a timely manner.- Provided training to new hires and answered questions from team across the company.- Overlooked the tasks completed by team members and ensured set processes are followed.- Caught errors that may have impacted other teams internally or external clients.- ACH management including automated fund transfer, funds settlement and banking updates.- Prepared reports from ACH returns and rejections due to closed accounts, NSF etc.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Processed Gift Card orders from placing to receiving. Vetted orders and provided order forms to the finance team for invoicing.- Utilized checks and validations to ensure all settlement outputs are generated as expected.- Investigated in the system for settlement inquiries and other problems escalated by our clients while using the program.- Monitoring scripts and escalate issues to programmers.- Boarded clients, implemented their gift card or loyalty program and coordinated with third party gift card providers as well as fulfillment teams.- Worked closely with the internal Givex operations teams: Product Development, Accounting, Sales, Quality Assurance and Client Services.- Worked with other teams to ensure all bases of a project are covered, from design, programming to billing.

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- Analyzed P&L statements including detail revenue and cost transaction and forecasted future contracts with vendors resulted in 10% profit increase.- Prepared reports for tenders resulting in cost savings and increased return on investments.- Composed ad-hoc reports as needed (by means of Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs).- Reconciled bank accounts and managed cash flows.- Analyzed and managed monthly cash forecast, including AP, AR, and inventory transactions.- Prepared reports and analyzed monthly sales and expenses.- Supervised SQL-based payroll system monthly entries.- Managed monthly income statements and sent them to the clients (national state-owned railway association and major public transportation companies).- Prepared payment cheques for suppliers and subcontractors and negotiated extended payment terms.- Coordinated the provision of information to external auditors for the annual audit.- Processed and executed quarterly procurement and purchasing report for VAT (value added tax).

Toronto, Canada Area

- Prepared balance sheet and analyzed monthly figures.- Composed weekly and monthly financial reports including expenditures.- Monitored projects performance and raised concerns to shareholders (budget vs. actual and cost to complete)- Compiled, analyze and delivered P&L statements to shareholders for each project.

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