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Markham

Markham

Contract Position Maternity leave

Engineering and Technical placement agency operating 10 offices across Canada and the United States with annual revenues of $150M. Acquired by Randstad in 2009.Responsible for all Finance, Administration and Payroll functions. Managed an office of 20 staff and supported the company's strategic operations.Successfully converted Accounting and payroll software package to Microsoft Great Plains. Reduced weekly payroll cycle by 40%, while the company grew on average 20% per year, through efficiency and productivity tools Introduced Policies and Procedures and Employee Handbook Produced financial statements, Budgets, Forecasts for internal management and parent Company.

Owner and operator of over 25 Public Optical stores, specializing in eyecare and auditory products, in Ontario employing over 150 people and with annual sales of $15 million.Responsible for all Finance and Head Office functions. Supervised a staff of four, accountant, accounts payable clerk, accounts receivable clerk and payroll accountant.Successfully converted accounting software package from New Views to Acc Pac.Assisted in Conversion of banking from Royal Bank to TD Bank.Developed and maintained cash flow projection worksheets on Excel.Produced financial statements, both actual and pro-forma for internal management requirements and external users such as banks and capital investment bankers.Created budget worksheets on Excel using Macros

Canada based U.S. subsidiary of ADP Inc., processing electronic payroll for over 10,000 clients across Canada. Annual revenue of over $50 million.Supervised directly a staff of three Senior Accountants, a Fund Accountant, Accounts Payable Coordinator, and Accounts Receivable Department consisting of two collectors, a cash poster and a NSF Funds Coordinator, plus the billing department of four associates.Installed and maintained a microcomputer based accounting package. "Spearheaded and user-championed the corporation" new Oracle based centralized accounting package.Wrote and instilled policies and procedures for companywide usage.Enhanced computerized budget and forecasting modeling to cut budget preparation time by 30% and increase accuracy to almost 100%.Consistently received clean audit reports from both external and internal audit groups. Prepared audit working papers, financial statements and corporate tax schedules for the Canadian division.

Markham based Computer Company offering hardware, proprietary software and maintenance to a wide range of corporate customers.Supervised a staff of seven with responsibility for all accounting functions, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing and custom importation of computer hardware.Converted the manual accounting process to a computerized P.C. environment.Implemented and performed P.C. and Excel classes for all associates.Designed budget and forecasting templates on MS Excel to cut the budgeting process time by 50%Prepared subsidiary translation and prepared consolidation statements for parent and wholly owned subsidiaries.

Cpa, Cma, Business Administration

Business, Accounting