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About Me

Location
Ontario, Canada
Languages
English

A seasoned and results driven professional with extensive experience in managing finance function, facilitation, and development of business requirements documentation, financial, risk and compliance performance reporting frameworks and metrics, GL substantiation, corporate taxation, systems implementation project management and process documentation, improvement, and re-engineering.

He is experienced working within various delivery methodologies including Lean, Agile, Waterfall, and Kanban. He is highly adept at managing and coordinating multiple competing priorities, tight timelines, business, and technical resources, and building and leading high performing teams. Business requirements documentation experience includes financial reporting changes, cost allocation enhancement, systems upgrades and transformation, delegation of authorities and EUC compliance to name a few.

Working in the financial, manufacturing, and other areas has enabled him to understand the dynamics of these sectors. He has a strong understanding of driving financial productivity to reduce net working capital, lead initiatives to reduce inventory holding costs and other associated costs.

He has also led ERP enhancements and rollouts focusing on Financial Tracking, Finance transformation, TOM, SOX, AML, IFRS, Oracle products (EPM/FCCS/ARCS) Credit and Debit Card Processes and Platform upgrade.

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Experience

Recent Work and Notable Career History

2015 to Current:

Senior Consultant
Oracle ARCS at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Accountable for leading the implementation of creation of Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS).
  • Manage stakeholders and multiple teams of multiple project streams in a matrixed organization.
  • Collaborate closely with IT and business subject matter experts to understand the purpose of the project and proposed deliverables

Senior Consultant
Business Advisory IFRS 17 at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Accountable for preparation and review of RBC IFRS 17 Accounting Policy Papers for the approval of PWC, Internal Audit for onward use for RBC Insurance legal entities and Group Consolidation purposes

Senior Consultant
Capital Markets at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Process documentation and diagnostic assessment of USD Treasury Payment Clearing process

Senior Consultant
Visa Debit Card Operations at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Provide leadership and guidance in the creation of project plans and drafted business requirements to understand current models and processes

Senior Consultant
Caribbean Credit Card Operations at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Subject matter expertise for the review of a Caribbean Credit Card Operations and other account sets that form part of End to End GL Reconciliation project and Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Substantiation and Attestation program ensuring compliance with regulatory and SOX framework

Senior Consultant
Enterprise Risk at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Review variances between enterprise ledger and risk reporting systems; developed business requirements documents for system changes required to correct discrepancies on a go forward basis

2005 to 2014:

Head of Financial Accounting & Payable
MEA Hub at a UK MNC Bank

  • Manage and lead the regional financial accounting.

Head of Financial Accounting and Reporting
Leading Middle Eastern Bank

  • Manage and lead the financial accounting and reporting.

Qualifications

  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA CGA)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

Knowledge Areas Knowledge Areas are the business domains and areas, or specialties, with which consultants, partners, and experts are most familiar.

Industries These are the industries and sectors in which consultants, partners, and experts have demonstrated knowledge and experience.

Recent Work and Notable Career History

2015 to Current:

Senior Consultant
Oracle ARCS at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Accountable for leading the implementation of creation of Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS).
  • Manage stakeholders and multiple teams of multiple project streams in a matrixed organization.
  • Collaborate closely with IT and business subject matter experts to understand the purpose of the project and proposed deliverables

Senior Consultant
Business Advisory IFRS 17 at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Accountable for preparation and review of RBC IFRS 17 Accounting Policy Papers for the approval of PWC, Internal Audit for onward use for RBC Insurance legal entities and Group Consolidation purposes

Senior Consultant
Capital Markets at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Process documentation and diagnostic assessment of USD Treasury Payment Clearing process

Senior Consultant
Visa Debit Card Operations at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Provide leadership and guidance in the creation of project plans and drafted business requirements to understand current models and processes

Senior Consultant
Caribbean Credit Card Operations at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Subject matter expertise for the review of a Caribbean Credit Card Operations and other account sets that form part of End to End GL Reconciliation project and Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Substantiation and Attestation program ensuring compliance with regulatory and SOX framework

Senior Consultant
Enterprise Risk at a Big 5 Canadian Bank

  • Review variances between enterprise ledger and risk reporting systems; developed business requirements documents for system changes required to correct discrepancies on a go forward basis

2005 to 2014:

Head of Financial Accounting & Payable
MEA Hub at a UK MNC Bank

  • Manage and lead the regional financial accounting.

Head of Financial Accounting and Reporting
Leading Middle Eastern Bank

  • Manage and lead the financial accounting and reporting.

  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA CGA)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

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