William Chiang, Cpa, Cga Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Co-chair of Canada’s Pension Committee and Member of Canada’s Benefit Committee.
• Assist in collection and management of overdue receivables including the tracking of disputes, credit notes and bankruptcies.
• Provide oversight to Venture & Acquisition (“V&A”) activities.
• Manage tax credits applications and analysis including the Québec E-business tax credit.
• Manage external government audits with goal of minimizing Accenture’s tax exposures.
• Manage internal audits, testing and self-assessments for Sarbanes-Oxley and Information Security.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for preparation, reporting and integrity of Canada’s financial results for six legal entities and acquired companies to ensure US GAAP and tax compliance with local taxing authorities.
• Reviewed monthly financial results to track revenue and expense trends and follow-up with business units for any required corrections for compliance.
• Managed external government audits with goal of minimizing Accenture’s tax exposures.
• Managed internal audits, testing and self-assessments for Sarbanes-Oxley and Information Security.
• Managed Post-Merger Integration (“PMI”) with goal of integrating acquired companies’ tax and controllership functions into Accenture’s.
• Involved in due diligence (Tax Workstream) by identifying risk areas and mitigations to Global Tax Group.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Conducted new joiner training for Finance Professionals (Order-to-Cash school) – both classroom (20+ participants) at Q Center, St. Charles, Illinois and virtually via videoconferencing.
• Prepared and presented monthly brown bags via teleconferencing to 300+ Finance Professionals based in North America and Europe.
• Supported Finance Professionals to better penetrate the SAP solution by understanding users’ day-to-day concerns and challenges, developing workarounds and job aids, and driving continuous improvement.
• Advised and assisted users with critical functions to drive statutory, management, and reporting accuracy as well as to ensure they are compliant with internal and external procedures and policies.
• Teamed globally to deploy pricing and forecasting tools by conducting training sessions (in-person and virtual), creating job aids, and troubleshooting with technical teams (programmers) for fixes and enhancements.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Prepared pricing models (US$150M+) to engagement executives to determine profitability of client proposals during contract negotiations.
• Led quarterly and annual financial forecasting cycle of over 500 resources – worked with regional leads (US, China, Philippines, Brazil, and Slovakia), and senior commercial leadership to identify financial risks and.
• Led process improvement initiatives – report standardization and streamlined processes.
• Reviewed and reconciled monthly revenues (US$5M+), invoices and inventory for as-earned revenue stream.
• Established regular communication with regional leads to understand delivery changes and report the impact on project financials.
• Managed reporting and expectations with various internal key stakeholders to ensure transparency of account level changes on revenues, costs, and margin.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Completed cost analyses to increase overall profitability, including identification of potential areas for cost-saving measures and raising of red flags regarding cost overruns.
• Prepared monthly actuals and forecast financial package.
• Tracked and reviewed cash collections and inventory balances.
• Extensive use of SAP in Financial Accounting Module and Microsoft Excel.
• Managed expense reconciliations and reporting on engagements.
• Trained two offshore financial analysts on month-end journal entries and accruals.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada