Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Highly accomplished finance professional with extensive diverse experience in financial services industry. Demonstrated abilities in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, internal and external reporting, regulatory compliance, controlling and reducing expenses and implementing and enhancing financial information systems. Excellent communication skills, adaptability, along with solid analytical skills. Recognized for bringing creative solutions to complex problems, providing leadership, developing cross-functional teams, utilizing excellent interpersonal skills, maintaining productivity and workflow. Core Competencies & Specialties: • Variance Analysis • Consolidation • Leadership • Anti-Money Laundering • Challenge the Status Quo • Hyperion Essbase SmartView • Presenting to Sr. Executives • Capital Budgeting • Advanced Excel Pivot Tables • SharePoint Administrator • Business Case Creation / Review
Provide strategic financial accounting expertise and day-to-day financial claims analysis and adjudication support for disability claims.
Responsible for regular interaction with Wealth Management Finance and Capital Markets Finance executive teams to hold them accountable and ensure their ownership of their budget and to assist them in optimizing the costs under their purview.
Responsible for the end to end financial oversight of RBC Hosting, Cloud and Mainframe technology environments. Accountable for annual and quarterly financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, monthly monitoring, reporting and variance analysis, opportunity spotting and validation of cost/efficiency management initiatives, new business case analysis.
Maintained accurate financial results and advising of general ledger reconciliation for small businesses Business consulting including cash flow management, T2 & HST tax filing, budgeting, and forecasting Responsible for bookkeeping, receipts, invoice management, cash flow management, financial statements preparation and eventual tax filing preparation
Responsible for all aspects of total bank monthly project reporting for expense and capital by strategic business units (SBU) and compare to Plan & target forecast estimates
Owned the detailed bottom-up annual operating and capital budgets process for multiple business units with expense base in excess of $185 million and 250 employees Re-engineered the financial forecast expense templates to streamline the consolidation of business units
Owner of central management reporting database, ensured month-end results accuracy in Essbase Produced monthly financial results for entire bank detailed listing by 40 lines of business in 4 Strategic Business Units Produced CIBC Weekly P&L estimates with value-added commentary to 38 Senior Leadership members
Responsible for the implementation of Activity Based Management (ABM) into a corporate SAP system and oversaw all aspects of monthly production of activity results in excess of $800 million using Activity Based Costing (ABC) principles