Accounting Manager

• Jul 2018 - Present

Managing all accounting, finance, and budgeting functions within the organization, as well as overseeing and supporting all project based reporting and tracking. Strategically involved with integrating and streamlining our IT infrastructure with a focus on Spectrum. Managing all accounting, finance, and budgeting functions within the organization, as well as overseeing and supporting all project based reporting and tracking. Strategically involved with integrating and streamlining our IT infrastructure with a focus on Spectrum.

Supervisor Financial Planning

• May 2016 - Jul 2018

Financial Shared Services is dedicated to providing world class financial services to each of its customers and business partners. The Financial Planning group is dedicated to ensuring the Business Unit has an accurate and high quality forecast & budget at all levels of the business to allow for an effective process of analyzing and understanding current and past information to effectively manage the Business Unit going forward.My primary responsibility is to design, maintain, consolidate, report and analyze the Coal Business Unit’s budget, monthly forecasts and near term cash flow. My team is also responsible for analysis and communications support to the Director of Finance and Senior Vice President for integrated operational and financial performance and analysis such as board of directors and investor relations presentations. Prior to the department restructuring, I was also responsible for the review and redesign of Finance and other departments’ processes to improve the current process or creation of a new process while ensuring accurate accounting. This included identifying and resolving many ad hoc issues as well as planned work. Collaboration with all the sites and departments has been critical in implementing change and executing projects/ budgets/ forecasts on time.Selected Achievements:• Created process and templates to collect and consolidate 12 departments budget ($150M) which has been used for four years and became baseline for implemented monthly forecasting process• Responsible for the consolidation of the Teck Coal budget and forecasts with analysis (>5B annual revenue)• Budget & forecast processes and tools developed for Coal Business Unit have been distributed to other Business Units• Responsible for analyzing business unit contractor processes and provided recommendations for system and process redesign to facilitate better costing and cost control Show less

Finance Project Lead

• Jul 2013 - Apr 2016

Senior Accountant, Process Improvement and Budgeting

• Mar 2013 - Jul 2013

Senior Accountant

• Dec 2009 - Mar 2013

My primary responsibility was to maintain, reconcile and analyze the financial statements for multiple entities in accordance with GAAP, ASPE and company policy. I was responsible for ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the month end process and to provide a variety of internal management reports. Other duties include weekly cash flow, bank reconciliations, forecasting, budgeting, maintaining capital asset sub-ledgers, tax returns, the preparation of year end audit binders and working with auditors to finalize the year end. Show less

Controller

• Jul 2008 - Dec 2009

My primary responsibility was to maintain, reconcile and analyze the financial statements for the district in accordance with GAAP and company policy. Key to this role was the communication, establishment, implementation and monitoring of financial policies and procedures to maintain internal controls under Sarbanes Oxley. I provided management oversight in areas of customer billing, cash receipts, customer collections, insurance, payroll, human resources, accounts payable and other administrative functions. Show less

Financial Analyst

• 2006 - 2008

My primary responsibility was to maintain the financial statements in Navision and to execute consolidation tasks in Excel associated with the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements. I worked with the accounting staff to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the month end process and to provide a variety of internal management reports. I was also responsible for designing in Jet Reports (database query tool) and Excel any ad hoc analysis required by the CFO, CEO and co-workers requiring data from the company’s Navision databases. Show less