MANAGER, FINANCE

✧ Lead financial modelling for company strategic initiatives, incorporating operational levers into pro-forma statements, built scenario and break-even analyses, pay-back periods; presented results to executive team

✧ Managed month-end close, including review of reconciliations, analytics, journal entries; motivated direct reports by investing time in coaching, goal-setting and using project management tools to facilitate timely reporting

✧ Coordinated quarterly inventory counts and reconciliations for international warehouses across Canada, Brazil, Mexico, China, U.K, Australia

✧ Strengthened internal processes by creating narratives and flowcharts, identifying control gaps, and implementing remediations by delivering new policy presentations to the entire company

✧ Reviewed quarterly financial statements, including preparation of disclosures and comparatives in accordance with IFRS (IFRS 2, IAS 36), re-classifications and changes in presentation

✧ Produced consolidated weekly cashflow forecast reporting to senior management and the Board of Directors on a timely basis, explaining movements, incorporating future working capital adjustments to project ending cash, and comparing budget-to-actual results

✧ Independently liaised with auditors to facilitate quarterly review and annual audit requests in a timely manner

✧ Performed analysis of quarterly movements and changes in operations to accurately prepare MD&A

✧ Collaborated closely with senior management across all departments to build company budgets bottom-up

✧ Accumulated necessary documentation for corporate tax filings and other external requirements

✧ Built equity tracker and implemented new system (Solium) to reduce manual work and shorten options reporting cycle; owned full equity administration, accounting (share capital and share-based compensation) and reporting process