Stephen Piunno Email & Phone Number

Toronto

Providing assurance and advisory services with a focus on the global portfolios for Oxford Properties, Private Equity, Infrastructure and Corporate functions, leveraging 20+ years of global industry financial leadership experience. In addition to completing engagements my responsibilities include financial and people management for the Internal Audit team.

Toronto

Financial statement preparation, board and audit committee presentations, financing and lending arrangements (venture and equity investors), corporate tax and system automations.

Toronto

Oversaw working capital efficiency project. Focus on reduction of $14M of receivables.

Markham, ON

• Responsibility over all external financial reporting, MD&A, treasury, corporate tax and financial systems oversight
• Key finance lead in $190M IPO (2010) – 10 weeks from announcement to close
• Key finance lead in equity and debt raises $181M and $468M, respectively
• Key finance lead in multiple acquisitions totaling $500M
• Implementation of IFRS standards
• Implementation of accounting system (Yardi) and business intelligence software (Cognos Express)

Markham, ON

• Reported directly to the CFO in the United Kingdom
• Consolidation and reporting of Canadian financial results including, distribution, record label and retail divisions
• Oversaw the transition to new auditing firm and managed external auditor relationship
• Redesigned entire budget process for Canadian distribution, retail and record label divisions to allow for detail analytics and improved executive visibility for key variances
• Led automation project including implementation of Cognos Express consolidation and reporting tool allowing for more accurate and timely information
• Managed the banking conversion in relation to global refinancing

• Reported to the VP Finance for SMB
• Consolidation and reporting of financial results for the SMB division
• Reviewed interim and annual financial statements including MD&A’s, as they pertain to comments regarding SMB
• Completed projects included the standardization of the reporting packages and a 30 day implementation of a Forecast, Planning and Reporting system, to replace dependency on spreadsheet models as well as reduce one.

• Responsible for global consolidation of the annual budget and quarterly forecast
• Prepared Board and Audit Committee presentations
• Reviewed interim and annual financial statements including MD&A’s

• Prepared the global organization for compliance with NI52-109 requirements
• Selection of consulting team, global risk assessment, controls documentation and standardization
• Communicated with global teams to educate them for new control requirements

• Prepared quarterly and annual financial statements and press release information
• Reduced the 7-day close period to 4 days
• Kept global accounting teams current on accounting pronouncements

• Performed risk analysis, financial and operational audits and due diligence work on different global business units
• Developed and designed the organizations audit programs
• Presented directly to the President/CEO and Audit Committee

Cpa, Ca

Bbmd, Finance, Economics