Paul Ingram Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Supports the go-to-market and client delivery activities of EY’s Finance Optimization service offering within EY’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services team, specializing in supporting Finance leaders engage with their key business stakeholders to improve Finance’s ability to build trust and creating long term value for their organizations through improvements to their Finance function.• Assists CFOs and Finance leaders to navigate the disruption caused by digital, technological and regulatory change, and to respond to the increased demand for real-time financial analysis and improved business insight by designing and implementing lasting improvements within their Finance function through efficiency improvements and the creation of improved capacity for decision insight.• Works with Finance leaders to craft innovative responses to the evolving and expanding role of the CFO and develops implementable solutions to streamline efficiency, control and compliance functions while simultaneously improving the value of Finance to the organization.• Develops and disseminates thought leadership and intellectual capital focused on the design and implementation of leading practice business models for the Finance function across organization structures, process improvements and deployment of enabling technology solutions to support improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.

Toronto, Canada Area

Shift works with organizations to deliver sustained performance improvement in their back office / administrative functions, with a particular focus on Finance Transformation. Our capabilities are unique, seamlessly blending hands-on operational experience in Finance across multiple industries with deep and broad advisory experience driving improved performance in Finance functions leveraging best practices across people, organization, process and technology, including robotics and process automation. Our team are authorities on the use of Shared Services and Outsourcing to drive operational efficiencies and create value across all stages of the project lifecycle. Our solutions are pragmatic, implementable and effective, and our first priority is always the success of our clients.

Toronto, Canada Area

Global Process Owner responsible for the delivery of Accounts Payable, Payroll (US, Canada), Travel & Corporate Card Administration, Sales Audit and Bankcard Administration overseeing North American teams supported by offshore delivery teams. Drove a transformation delivering significant cost savings across multiple Finance functions by consolidating Finance & Accounting (F&A) activities into a single North American centre (Toronto) supported by an internal delivery organization established in Bangalore.• Co-Lead the organization design, staffing, hiring and onboarding of a 200+ FTE delivery organization in India. Oversaw process transition from North American to India (design, process documentation, project management through execution and stabilization) to transition ~150 roles from a third party outsourcer, with an additional 50+ roles transitioned from North America in less than 1 year.• Participated in the fit assessment of functions being considered for off-shoring, identification and validation of efficiency / labour arbitrage savings.• Co-lead all process design activities for HBC India, including roles definitions / job profiles for all F&A roles.• Co-lead the organization design and recruiting, hiring and onboarding of over 150 F&A staff in India.• Lead the development of the governance model for the F&A functions, including the development of process scorecards and initiated a focus on continuous improvement leveraging six sigma principles.Business owner / sponsor for multiple business transformation and technology projects to standardize / optimize shared services processes, improve customer service and reduce costs.• Design / implementation of a common Financials Accounts Payable solution• North American payroll implementationEstablished a continuous-improvement focus within all shared services teams to delivery ongoing cost-efficiency and a customer-service focus.

Toronto, Canada Area

Your World. Our Thinking. Change Refined.Silver Birch Partners (SBP) is focused on enhancing the value that your people bring to your organization, ensuring you receive improved and sustainable results. Our consultants and facilitators bring what we believe to be a unique blend of skills to you, our client. All of our members have held senior level positions in “Big 4” consultancies, as well as having held senior positions in industry. SBP believes this provides you with unparalleled proven and practical experience. Our solutions are not theoretical, they are practical, implementable and they work.

Toronto, Canada Area

•Canadian market leader for Finance Management Solutions (FMS) offerings to clients across retail, mining and CPG industries including Performance Management / KPIs, Value-Driver modeling, Advanced Cost Management, Budgeting & Planning and Process Re-engineering.•Counsellor and advisor to senior executive teams on strategies to drive improvement in the performance of their Finance function to support the overall enterprise strategy and cost reduction efforts•Helped drive growth of PwC GTA finance team •Developed thought leadership materials on leading practices within the Finance function and worked as a Subject Matter Expert on consulting teams to incorporate these best practice principles within client organizations

Toronto, Canada Area

-Supported the growth and expansion of consulting practice supporting Financial executives across Canada-Developed thought leadership and service offerings geared to meet the needs of Canadian Finance executives-Led and managed engagements to support improvements in effectiveness and efficiency of client Finance functions

Toronto, Canada Area

- Senior go-to-market executive for Financial Management Solutions practice to CFOs and Finance executives within Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, and Travel & Transportation ($17M in annual revenue) - National responsibility for Finance Transformation and Business Performance Management service lines (working across all sectors), working with CFOs of Canada’s largest companies to establish their agenda for the finance function, including design and implementation of Shared Services / Outsourcing, Balanced Scorecards, Performance Management frameworks and leading practice finance operations

Toronto, Canada Area

•Senior consulting professional within Financial Management Solutions practice •Successfully delivered multiple engagements for some of Canada's largest companies the deliver Finance and back-office shared services organizations to deliver substantial cost savings•Recognized subject matter expert in establishing new business models for Finance leveraging Shared Services and Outsourcing

Toronto, Canada Area

•Series of progressively senior roles within Finance function, culminating as Supply Chain Controller•Operational experience in across all aspects of Finance function with experience in Supply Chain, including Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Logistics with a $1B revenue consumer goods manufacturer•Actively led the use of Continuous Improvement techniques to drive cost reduction and efficiency improvements within the manufacturing operation, including implementation of an enterprise-wide Activity-Based Costing system, identifying opportunities for cost reduction in supply chain costs•Led the development and implementation of a new financial planning and reporting system, significantly streamlining the budgeting and financial reporting processes

Mba, Business Administration

Also undergraduate degree (Honors Business Administration -HBA, 1986) University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Hba, Business Administration