Experience

Legrand Canada

• Canada
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis

  • Feb 2009 - Present

  Responsibilities: - Responsible for the management of the company's financial planning and analysis process. - Own and lead the budgeting and forecasting process for the company and its component parts. - Coordinate annual budget and quarterly re-forecasts through proper communication to sales, operations, marketing, logistics, and administrative managers. - Ensure annual budget and quarterly re-forecasts results are reported to Corporate in an accurate and timely manner. - Work with all division departments to understand business issues impacting their operating plans and re-forecasts and also to pursue additional financial processes that will add economic value added (EVA) to the division. - Supervise preparation of the monthly Corporate Management reporting deck. - Prepare monthly reports that highlight the operational results, trends and provide comparison to prior year and annual plan. - Identify areas of process improvement and recommend effective solutions. - Participate in strategic planning. - Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, SG&A expenses and capital expenditures. - Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives. - Ad-hoc analysis and reporting to all levels of management - Provide training and mentoring for team members. Achievements: - Lead and successfully implemented Standard Costing process. - Revamped annual Budget and quarterly Forecast process to raise the level of visibility for future expenses and increase accuracy. - Built deep business partner relationships with executives and management across Legrand Canada.

• Accounting Manager (Controller)

  • 2007 - 2008

  - Lead and manage a team of five professionals, with direct responsibility for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Consolidations. - Responsible for the monthly close, as well as maintenance of all accounting ledgers, including monthly review of all account reconciliations and journal entries. - Prepared all financial reports, including Profit and Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and various Ad-Hoc reports. - Ensured completion and review of all Balance Sheet reconciliations, identified and communicated findings. - Compiled and analyzed sales, revenue and SG&A data to assist in budget and forecasts preparation. - Worked with internal and external auditors during reviews and audits to ensure full cooperation from accounting staff and compliance with all qualified requests. - Ensured T4A and other tax forms and government required documentations are completed and submitted on time. - Collaborated with Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and Engineering to meet internal and external clients requirements. - Developed new procedures by quickly developing rapport with IT and Operations colleagues.