Analyst/Finance/Retail Support (Expense & Sundry)
Shoppers Drug Mart
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
Key Highlights:
• Effectively led the process of reconciling the postal accrual account with Canada post statement; maintained accruals, monitored postal inventory level, and normalized rate.
• Instrumental in developing and facilitating regional as well as national annual plan and forecasts to the regional district manager and store associates for review and further approval.
• Closely monitored all accounting transactions while ensuring completion of all external system interfaces into the G/L.
• Professionally determined and resolved client issues/queries/requests related to the store, further assuring delivery of outstanding services.
• Successful in identifying key expenses and revenue maximization opportunities.
Responsibilities:
• Accountable for performing balance sheet accounts fluctuation analysis as well as commentaries, such as reconciliations and variance analysis against prior period, year, and year end balances.
• Preparing and maintaining P&L accounts variance analysis and commentaries.
• Handled month/year end account closing activities, including accruals, expenses reclass, journal entries, period expense uploads, and account reasonability checks incorporating historical and average account activity per period while continuously monitoring account transactions.
• Responsible for managing and integrating the effect of store count change (new, relocations, acquisitions, closures) to variance explanations and forecasts.
• Preparing and providing associate change over reconciliations.
• Drafting Ad-hoc reports and implementing necessary measures for further improvement and synergy savings.
• Regularly monitoring and updating cost and inventory counts related to all stores in the web-based forum.
• Conducting meetings with the other inter-departments to discuss cost optimization opportunities and related risks.
Volunteer Work
Key Highlights:
• Categorized all invoices, processes all cheques, and led master file data entries.
• Recorded and maintained various accounting entries and transactions while performing month end reporting, filing, and analysis.
Responsibilities:
• Managed all expenditures and approvals in alignment with the established policies and standards.
• Regularly monitored and inspected banking transactions to assure accuracy and reconcile on a weekly basis.
• Maintained close communications with parties and responded to vendors, clients and internal inquires within given time.