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Toronto, On, Ca

Brampton, On, Ca

• Savaria Public company (Manufacturer Accessibilty needs) Controller/Consultant for Business unit (Sales $200M), Finance Team: 9, • Financial Reporting: OneStream, ERP: MK, • Led all accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, reporting and FP&A activities • Developed ad hoc analyses to understand the core drivers of performance within the business • Lead the external audit process & ICFR with external consultants

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Consulting Key Accomplishments • Increase bank LOC, to support business growth, from $7M to $10M • Detailed budget and led year-end closes, balance sheet reconciliations (correcting & teaching) • Cash flow forecasts and projections • Implemented mobiilization payments re: client selling to construction industry• Changed manual vendor payment methods to Electronic & Direct debit

Brampton, On, Ca

• Successfully completed the 9/30/21 year-end, the balance sheet required $0.75M reconciliation (I was only CPA) to ensure continual bank financing• Reorganized the F&A team into 2 groups to focus on Sales/AR/cash and Disbursements/AP/COGS, setting clear milestones and deliverables• Evaluated customer credit limits and put procedures into place to mitigate against non payment • Advised the owners on various initiatives, leasing a larger facility, Sales margin analysis• Started a new ERP implementation project, working with internal stakeholders • Added rigour to month-end close process, introduced checklists with timelines• Worked with ownership to improve credit score rating

• Sales grew from $125M (2 locations) to $250M (5 locations), Export Sales to US $150M• Manufacturer of stainless steel/carbon tubular products (End Users: GM, Ford, Raytheon, York Furnace)• Locations in Canada/Mexico/Alabama/Stoney Creek/London, serviced Automotive, HVAC• Reported to the President, ATG• Hands-on Finance head, managing a team of 12 (de facto Controller for Markham plant)• Accountability over Month-end and FP&A (Quarterly Re-forecast)(In 8 consecutive years, Actual Profit exceeded Budget/Forecast Profit) • Owned 5 year Strategic Plans & quarterly updates, Accountable for actuals (vs. financial projections)• Present to Samuel & Son Senior C suite, QBR and annual Budget. Including Bridge analysis, explaining key drivers • KPI owner for key financial benchmarks and ratios, including detailed assessments and recommending improvements• Drove monthly A/R reviews, resulting in DSO improvement, leading to monthly incremental cash-flow $100k • Author of several multi-million dollar Business cases for Building expansions, new Machinery/Equipment, Risk mitigation • Hands-on Director, who actively promotes team building and provides Cross-training opportunities• Adept with multiple currencies USD, CAD & MXN• Owner of monthly USD forward contracts (Annual US$30M)• Cumulative SR&ED tax refunds approaching $1M

• Led IFRS accounting conversion• Internal Controls development and implementation• Authored F/S and MD&A• Proficient with Great Plains, Excel• Risk management including insurance renewals• Public company (TSX & NYSE Amex)

Gold River, Ca, Us

• Co-led Latin American Finance department start-up (5 locations)• Developed detailed analysis of slow moving inventory for Operations action• Managed company cash flow and made appropriate recommendations to Senior management• Mentored managers in A/R, A/P and Payroll• Public company (TSX)• FX hedging• Future sales facilitation – novel cash-flow techniques with slow paying customer, to ensure video games vendor paid, vendors provided new games for our sales pipeline

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Spear-headed Revenue Recovery program resulting in several million dollars of previously unbilled revenue• Lead Finance person for largest Healthcare customer (Baxter Corp) during very challenging start-up phase• Presented monthly division financial results to President, VP Finance, VP Operations, other division heads (including variance analysis to Budget & Forecast)• Tenure included high growth phase due to acquisitions • Managed and consolidated several new divisions financial data for Financial reporting purposes to US parent company• Led Oracle ERP implementation project• Was sole 2003 UPS SCS Canada representative to attend prestigious UPS Corporate School

• Performed Due Diligence (DD) quantitative analyses, including a tax cost basis calculation. Provided all tax and treasury related DD information to UPS Canada Corporate Office• Managed cash position of consolidated entity on a daily basis and excess cash investment, including the choice and term of investment instruments • Preparation of all external audit taxation working papers including income tax provisions, deferred taxes and financial statement notes

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