Experience

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  Argus Hospitality Group

  • British Columbia, Canada

  • Site Specialist

    • Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
    • British Columbia, Canada

    Grounds site operations

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  Élections Canada | Elections Canada

  • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  • Community Relations Officer for the Homess

    • Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
    • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    Outreach operations with shelter and hostel accomodation providers across the Election District , Building networks and providing registration and voting options for homeless residents.

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  Statistics Canada

  • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  • Enumerator

    • May 2021 - Sep 2021
    • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    Performing investigative work on Canadian Census 2021. Follow up census questionnaires and quality assurance verfication of property designations.

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  Self-employed

  • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  • Treasurer for Strata Corporation

    • Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
    • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    Accocunts and budget management. Risk management.

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  Elections BC

  • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  • Senior Polling Station Supervisor

    • Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
    • Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    Supervising 9 polling stations for the BC elections. Accounting for voter administrationJoint managing 20 polling staff Assure conduct for the security of the poll.

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  Intercruise Shoreside and Port Services

  • Vancouver BC

  • Cruise ship Representative

    • Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
    • Vancouver BC

    .Managing debarkation transportation, customs and baggage identification.Passenger traffic management through security and immigration.Checking in guests verifying passports,visas and travel authorizations.Credit card authorization and photo identity pictures.Issuing boarding passes ,providing information and directing guests

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  Destination North America Inc

  • Vancouver

  • Cruise Representative

    • Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
    • Vancouver

    See Intercruise Shore side and Port Services

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  Commission for Local Administration in England

  • London, UK

  • Head of Finance and Estates

    • Jan 2001 - Oct 2011
    • London, UK

    • Redesigned the Business budget model using various IT solution tools for Financial Management monitoring and control across the body resulting in budget surpluses year on year and unqualified audits throughout my stewardship.• Managed an Operational Management teams of 9 and Finance team of 6.• Principal Corporate Services Manager reporting to the deputy Chief executive.• Developed KPI's for Financial Services and bench-marking with sister bodies.• Project managed major capital relocation of office accommodation in London including dilapidation, lease terms, fit-out and sub-tenants leases.• Established Strategic and Operational Risk registers across functional business units and regional offices. This resulted in nil increase in insurance premiums for 10 years.• Developed and led the expansion of Operational support management throughout the organization supporting budget, procurement strategy and Contract Management.• Reconstructed the procurement methodology and contracts management guides to aide VFM and effective control.• Key manager to investigate claims under the disciplinary policy for staff.• Responsible for the evaluation and selection of tender proposals for contracts for buildings, products and services.• Lead officer for disaster recovery policy and periodic scenario plan testing.• In liaison with the HR head of service implemented policy and procedures for workforce planning, redundancy, redeployment and retraining programs.

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  Community Initiatives Partnership

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Group Accountant

    • Jul 1999 - Jan 2001
    • London, United Kingdom

    COMMUNITY INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP 1999-2001Group Accountant• Managed and supervised team of 12 for a newly create group structure of companies employing 1000 full/part time staffing the leisure industry• Established support structures within the Library service, Community center, sporting facilities (inc golf club, swimming pool and gyms ) and entertainment facilities.• Forged relationships between key players in each company to achieve consistency in performance and reporting for executive board oversight.

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  London Borough of Hounslow

  • Acting Group Accountant

    • Mar 1988 - Jul 1999

    • Successfully completed and submitted major grant claims for Government submissions in excess of $100m pa without audit qualification or significant error.• Managed strategic restructuring from centralization to a devolved managed business service unit.• Improved management accountancy by involving key devolved budget holders in estimate production, providing data for monitoring and reporting tools for control.• Produced trust accounts and charity accounts for protected assets property.• Developed sensitivity analysis and tracked working papers to enhance financial modeling to aide decision making thus maximizing resources.• Constructed objective and subjective analysis across multi- service accounts.• Produced legal reports for attorneys in claims administration and debt recovery including giving evidence at county and high courts.

  • Principal Officer Central Services

    • Jul 1986 - Mar 1988

    • Supervised various teams delivering customer services to 200 staff• Team member of several significant transitions from manual operations to IT driven solutions involving data preparation, data cleansing, parallel running operations and modeling outputs.• Reception manager for whole housing service• Insurance manager for tenants contents scheme.• Grant manager for Government subsidies for delivering services.• Service charge calculations for leased dwellings.