Experience

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  2198736 Ontario Limited

  • Richmond Hill, Ontario

  • President

    • Sep 2009 - Present
    • Richmond Hill, Ontario

    President of a numbered company that provides consulting services to the National Office of Deloitte Canada

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  Deloitte Canada

  • Richmond Hill, Canada

  • Part time Consultant

    • Sep 2009 - Present
    • Richmond Hill, Canada

    Various tasks including being a member of the project team for the new Canadian Financial Reporting website (CFR), which replaced the monthly Deloitte Digest (2008 to 2015), and responsible for assurance quality control and other client assignments (2008 to 2012).

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  Deloitte Canada

  • Toronto, Canada

  • Senior Manager, Complex Accounting & Transaction Expertise (CA&TE) Group

    • 2003 - 2009
    • Toronto, Canada

    Member of the CA&TE Group working on clients across Canada in various industries such as banking and insurance, mining, manufacturing, distribution and services and specializing in (i) hedging and derivatives; (ii) consolidations, including of variable interest entities (VIEs) and special purpose entities (SPEs); and (iii) business combinations under Canadian GAAP, US GAAP and International GAAP.

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  Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada

  • Toronto,

  • Senior Accounting Advisor

    • 2000 - 2003
    • Toronto,

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  The Bank of Nova Scotia

  • Toronto

  • Manager, International Audit

    • 1999 - 2000
    • Toronto

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  Arab Insurance Group B.S.C.

  • Bahrain

  • Head of Group Internal Audit

    • 1997 - 1999
    • Bahrain

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  Self employed Financial Services Consultant

  • Toronto and Belfast, N. Ireland and Dublin, Ireland

  • Independent Consultant

    • 1993 - 1997
    • Toronto and Belfast, N. Ireland and Dublin, Ireland

    Consultant providing services to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, First Trust Bank and Allied Irish Bank.

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  Commcorp Financial Services Inc.

  • Burlington

  • Director of Internal Audit & Special Projects

    • 1991 - 1993
    • Burlington

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  KPMG Canada

  • Canada
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Audit Partner

    • 1983 - 1991

    Financial Institutions Specialist serving one major Canadian bank, several Schedule B Foreign Banks in Canada, and several significant property and casualty insurers and life insurers.[Includes part time secondment to the CICA to work with the Financial Institutions Task Force 1989- 1991 following the demise of the Canadian Commercial Bank and Northland Bank in order to amend and improve bank accounting and auditing standards as recommended by the Estey Report.]

  • Senior Audit Manager/Audit Manager

    • 1976 - 1983

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  Peat Marwick Mitchell, South Africa

  • Johannesburg

  • Audit Manager/Audit Senior

    • 1974 - 1976
    • Johannesburg

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  Hill, Vellacott & Bailey, Chartered Accountants

  • Belfast N, Ireland

  • Articled Clerk

    • 1970 - 1973
    • Belfast N, Ireland