 Developed and Implemented policies and directions on financial and accounting practices. Prepared forecasts and budgets, ensured maintenance of accurate accounting records, internal and external financial reporting and analysis.  Designed and monitored internal controls, supervised AR and AP functions, reported on branch performance. Monitored staff performance, provided coaching, mentoring, training and development opportunities to the accounting team of four members. Obtained clean reports from the external auditors (KPMG) every year and managed to reduce the time of their annual assignment through submitting the required information on time. Liaised and ensured cross functional interactions between Operations, Safety, Mechanical, Admin and HR departments.  Supervised treasury functions through cash flow monitoring and ensured compliance of financial covenants. Prepared periodic reports for the management, banks and financial institutions. Performed financial analysis for capital investments, quotes, proposals and contracts negotiations. Processed payroll of 120 staff, remitted payroll deductions, submitted ROEs online with Service Canada and filed GST and WCB returns and T4s annually. Discussed and handled matters with CRA, Service Canada, WCB Alberta, Banks, Insurance companies, Suppliers and Customers. Ensured timely collections of receivables and processed monthly EFT payments to over 100 suppliers. Maintained accurate accounting records of the subsidiary corporations and filed GST returns.

  Played key leadership role in strategic planning, budgeting and supervised accounting functions, variance analysis and reported to the President and Directors on projects worth $ 220 million. Supervised treasury functions, discussed matters with banks, auditors and insurance companies. Coordinated with the project managers and company estimators in finalizing the project estimates. Generated financial and job cost reports from Sage Timberline software and worked out profitability. Reviewed progress claims filed with customers and ensuring claiming of all projects expenses. Supervised AR and AP functions, payroll, bank reconciliation, filed T4s, ROEs and GST returns.  Prepared financial statements and management reports for the Directors on monthly basis. Presented financial statements to the auditors for review and submitted the required information.

 Inventory management and control according to the standard warehouse distribution procedures. Ensuring that the inventory is properly consolidated for transfer to its network of 1,700 retail outlets. Maintaining the Stock Consolidation Reports using the Store Batch Labels. Ensuring the compliance of the 5S and warehouse safety rules implemented by the company. Performance evaluation discussions in the meetings headed by the Area Manager.

 Financial Statements Review and Compilation. Personal and Corporate Tax Returns Preparation on the 'ProFile' tax software. GST/HST workings, filings and reconciliation. Employee Payroll, CPP, EI and Personal Tax Liability calculations.

 Inventory management and control according to the standard work procedures. Using the Radio Frequency Scanners to receive and transfer the inventory. Stock counting and troubleshooting the problems to the resolution. Ensuring the compliance of the safety rules implemented by the company. Performance evaluation in the meetings headed by the Area Manager.

 Information Analysis and Financial Statements Preparation. Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Management. HST, WSIB, Employees Payroll, CPP, EI and the Federal Income Tax Liability calculations. Tax Liability and Claims Forms Preparation.

 Provided daily guidance to various department managers for effective retail operations which enhanced the consumer perceived value, increased the sales and other income from CAD 10 million dollars in 2004 to CAD 35 million dollars in 2010. Planned and constructed the effective merchandising programs with a consumer friendly item mix. Created shelf layouts that increase the impulse purchases while reducing out of stocks. Negotiated favorable terms and conditions with different suppliers to boost income by more than 300% over the last 7 years through additional shelf rent, advertising, and purchase discounts. Produced effective retail promotions that drove sales and enhanced the profitability by 373% in the last 7 years. Maximized product exposure and sales through comprehensive set of creative, advertising and promotional services that helped build customer awareness, loyalty and store sales. Provided daily reports to executive leadership. Monitored and controlled business procedures and techniques, customer service programs, monthly promotions, and vendor relations.

Direct financial operations, budgeting, and management reporting. Supervise accounts receivable and accounts payable. Closely monitor cash flow, coordinate with financial institutions for necessary treasury functions. Help plan, design, implement, and enforce company policies. Created comprehensive monthly reporting system to support strategic analysis and decision making, including consolidated profit and loss, location-specific profit and loss, key performance indicators, capital expenditure, stock turnover, maintenance contracts, and various sales reports. Eliminated unnecessary expenses by designing various internal control and verification procedures to identify and remove operational and financial weaknesses. Introduced hand held terminals (HHT) to order, receive, transfer, check, count, and price inventory, greatly improving efficiency and inventory accuracy. Improved annual audit completion time from 5 months to less than 2 months, with no deficiencies noted in external auditor’s report.

- Independently supported various national and international clients with advice about effective tax planning. - Completed detailed financial reviews, prepared tax returns, represented clients before tax authorities at various levels including high appellate forums and got favorable decisions resulted in huge tax savings. - Promoted from Asst. Manager to Manager in 1999 due to the outstanding performance.- Participated regularly in the preparation of annual budget recommendations for the government, reviewed the budget changes every year and assisted in the finalization of budget commentaries. - Conducted special assignments, including high-level investigation at central bank to identify irregularities in a private national bank.

- Actively involved in the planning and execution of audit of the local and foreign clients and reporting thereon within the targeted dates. - Studied and evaluated the internal control policies and procedures of the large scale manufacturing and trading organizations as well as the prominent financial institutions.- Assisted and advised the clients in preparation of the financial statements according to the applicable International Financial Reporting Standards.- Prepared the reports for the management summarizing the weaknesses identified during the audit and the special assignments and suggested the appropriate solutions.