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Guelph, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Financial Oversight: Provide comprehensive financial oversight and strategic guidance to multiple clients across various industries, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and regulations.• Budgeting & Forecasting: Develop and manage detailed budgets, financial forecasts, and cash flow projections to assist clients in strategic planning and decision-making processes.• Financial Reporting: Prepare and present timely, accurate financial statements and reports to senior management, investors, and stakeholders, offering insights and recommendations for improvement.• Cost Management: Implement cost control measures and identify opportunities for cost savings, enhancing overall financial efficiency and profitability for clients.• Audit Preparation: Coordinate and oversee external audits, ensuring all documentation and processes are audit-ready, resulting in successful and timely audit outcomes.• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor accounting teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.• System Implementation: Evaluate, recommend, and implement financial systems and software to streamline operations and improve financial reporting capabilities.• Compliance: Ensure all financial activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies, reducing risk and maintaining integrity.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Overseeing the general accounting functions of the company, performing reconciliations and general ledger operations, preparing financial statements, and internal audit of accounts. • Gathering and synthesizing extensive volumes of financial information from internal and external sources. Translating data into actionable intelligence to enable data driven decision making• Analysing regular sales data and identifying trends to alert management about possible areas of improvement or concern and support informed inventory forecasting.• Identifying areas of continuous improvement to find process and operational efficiencies.• Ad-hoc reporting as necessary to support management decision making processKey Achievements:• Conducted complex cost analyses across shipping and warehousing processes under own initiative. Developed corrective measures and delivered a 40% reduction in freight costs and simultaneously added redundancy to the supply chain.• Developed new sales channels on e-commerce platforms and implemented SOP’s to streamline the supply chain.

Dubai

• Headed month and year-end closing tasks, conducting account analyses, and preparing detailed balance sheets, P&L statements, and financial reports for decision-makers.• Processed full-cycle Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, coding/batching invoices, performing reconciliations, and balancing accounts.• Introduced and maintained strong controls to ensure quality financial reporting in compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks and generally accepted accounting principles.• Orchestrated the implementation of ERP system, creating a data-driven lean accounting environment.• Served as the Branch’s IT Administrator, presiding over the installation, configuration, maintenance, update, and daily functionality of the entire server and networking infrastructure of several global offices.

Dubai

• Managed the Dubai’s office daily accounts, processing A/P and A/R, balancing accounts, preparing financial statements, processing payroll, coordinating account audits, and producing financial reports as required.• Took lead as the office’s IT Administrator, troubleshooting and resolving various technical issues ranging in size and scope, while maintaining a secure and reliable infrastructure.

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance

Executive Mba, Finance