Stephanie Devost Email & Phone Number

Guelph, ON, CA

Ontario, Canada

• Provides expertise in three key areas of business: financial management, human resources management and administration.
• Responsible for the development of budgets, financial forecasts and financial strategies that are reflective of the department’s cost recovery and revenue generating mandate.
• Provides financial expertise and recommendations to the Executive Director, OpenEd as well as a team of Managers within the OpenEd department.
• Provides leadership and supervision to the Manager, Registration and Accounts.
• Provides leadership and functional guidance to the Learner Services Coordinator, English Language Program (ELP) Student Service Assistant and the team of Program Logistics Coordinators (2).
• Develops and implements plans for the effective use of physical resources and allocation, including space, furniture, tools and equipment; specifically rebranding of the Johnston Hall 010 space.

Guelph, ON

• Work as a team member to prepare annual Budget Report.
• Assist in presentations of budget data and analysis to the AVP Finance (currently the Executive Director and Manager of the Budget and Financial Planning Office).
• Provide hiring support to our direct team, as well as input for hires in the financial and managerial roles throughout the campus.
• Evaluate the financial feasibility and impact of hiring requests (HRCs) across campus.
• Develop various forms used around the University to assist the planning of resources and analysis of financial data, such as the Faculty Planning Process, Variance Analysis, and Strategic Investment Funding Analysis.
• Responsible for administering projects in a cross functional team, such as the Program Prioritization Process.

Kitchener, Ontario

• Preparation and analysis of financial and statistical reports on a monthly basis, both for internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for Ministry of Health (MOH)submissions: Trial Balance; Quarterly Template including: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flow and Statistical data; Hospital Annual Planning Submission.
• Financial and statistical reconciliation between MOH Verification Reports and Quarterly Templates.
• Developed variance reporting templates for managers and directors with proper processes and controls in place to ensure the integrity of the information reported throughout the organization, and used for decision.
• Collaborate with departments and managers across the organization to determine the needs and reporting requirements for the Finance department.
• Perform ad hoc requests of VPs, directors, managers and organization equivalents in order to resolve day-to-day issues and external reporting requirements.

• Introduced budget templates for Clinical Managers to have input into their budget process.
• Provide training & education to Clinical Managers on various Decision Support Tools: Variance Analysis Templates, Budget Templates.
• Developed an auto-population of information from the Meditech System into Variance Analysis Templates using Access Databases.
• Pay-4-Results Steering Committee Finance Representative: Ministry Funded program to streamline patient flow from ER to admission and discharge.
• Provide support to 17 managers and 62 departments within the organization.

• Collect and analyze statistical data required by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
• Responsible for developing hospital-wide budget together with Director Decision Support.
• Work as a cross-functional team within the department assisting with hospital-wide projects.
• Update, maintain and develop reporting templates in the Meditech, Budman and Grasp systems.
• Advanced knowledge of MIS guidelines and standards for internal and Ministry reporting.
• Responsible for Ministry submissions: Trial Balance, Quarterly Template, Hospital Annual Planning.

Certified Management Accountant Designation, Cma Designation

Hon. Bachelor Of Commerce, Financial & Management Accounting