Justin Rocks Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Finance executive for a crown entity that provides services, programs and products to current and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families. The organization has 4,000+ employees across Canada and.
• Partners with the department heads and management teams through the provision of decision support and unbiased advice to support evolving requirements and achievement of strategic objectives.
• Leads annual budgeting process (combined expenditures of > $400M) and multi-year strategic plan forecasts through costing of existing activities and new initiatives (including capital projects).
• Responsible for developing, maintaining and monitoring the corporate financial management for the CFMWS organization (including Public fund submissions, allocations and disclosures) to minimize budget surpluses /.
• Performs analyses and recommendations with respect to strategic and financial priorities, including insightful, value-added and benefit realization analysis on key initiatives, projects and opportunities to support the.
• Leverages technologies and champions data literacy to drive operational efficiencies, enhance analytical capabilities and promote transparency, while strengthening the workforce.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Provided consulting services to streamline reporting, enhance analytical capabilities & engineer data.
• Developed solutions to drive operational efficiencies and uncover new insights through data generation, enrichment and consolidation.
• Designed and implemented a rolling forecasts model, cost allocation process and dynamic scenario analysis to evaluate strategic projects.

Canada

• Ottawa: Led reporting & data transformation project. Formed standardization, rationalization & automation streams to reduce delivery time & effort. Devised business intelligence strategy; led development of a data mart.
• Led annual budgeting & forecasting (including PnL, balance sheet & resources) activities.
• Monitored performance against objectives, identified variance drivers and (where appropriate) proposed corrective action. Identified and / or assessed emerging risks and opportunities.
• Formulated strategic business plans, business cases and provided impartial and objective advice.
• Prepared financial projections and impact analysis to evaluate and monitor multi-million dollar projects. Conducted post-completion audits to verify benefits and refine future approach.
• Identified cost savings opportunities and established charters to track, deliver and assess results.

Toronto, Canada / London, UK

• Head of Canadian performance reporting and analytics. Directly influenced client management by providing timely and actionable information. Managed global client profitability reporting team.
• Enhanced Canadian client reporting capabilities with increased scope, content and accuracy.
• Led initiative to augment, cleanse and enrich datasets to meet organizational standards.
• Designed and developed a global cost allocation process. Collaborated with stakeholders to ascertain requirements, devise driver based methodologies and obtain management buy-in.
• Implemented balanced scorecards and KPIs to evaluate individual and team performance versus peers.
• Identified cross selling opportunities through client market and product penetration analysis.

London, UK

• Responsible for the day-to-day accounting activities of multiple overseas entities (including two group structures), monitored and reported financial performance to Finance Director and COO.
• Produced financial statements, disclosures, notes and annual statements.
• Prepared month-end adjustments (including payments, accruals and group consolidation), banking reconciliations, regulatory and tax returns.
• Coordinated inter-company / region transfers, transfer pricing and short-term funding requirements.
• Conducted capital adequacy tests, variance analysis and account ownership to substantiate balances.
• Regularly liaised with treasury, accounts payable, auditors, regulators and external consultants.