CLIVE D SOUZA
ottawa,Canada
Summary
Senior finance executive with a CPA and over 10 years of progressive experience in accounting operations, financial analysis, budgets, and cash flow preparation. Dedicated to adapting and continuously improving processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality and compliant information. Experienced in managing direct reports to achieve set deliverables and collaborating with teams to overcome new challenges in a fast-paced environment. Extensive experience working with diverse IFRS reporting companies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Reporting Manager
BGIS
04.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: Industry – Real Estate, Facility and construction management
- Prepare quarterly budgets and forecasts for revenue projection, investigate variances using Oracle and project schedule reports
- Manage capital funds on project portfolio per business unit and review funding requirements against our operating costs incurred on projects on a quarterly basis, recommend costing allocation inputs with project directors to ensure risk for BGIS projects is minimal
- Over-see accounts payable invoice processing and AR billing functions, prepare consolidated aging reports for past due owed amounts, advise management for customer accounts to be put on hold/ breach of contracts classification
- Review monthly billing vs projected forecast billing; track these against revenue KPI milestones set for each month and quarter, investigate issues on projects failing to meet targets by reviewing contingency plans with project heads
- Prepare variance analysis on multiple cost allocations mainly construction costs, consulting and travel expense on project regional basis against the yearly funding received to sustain projects
- Implemented and tested new system processes adapted for project management, conducted sample testing on revenue and costs management between system interfaces, collaborated with IT to solve system interface issues between project and corporate financial systems
- Lead contact for maintaining SOX audit compliance requests on projects and accounting operations for my units on a quarterly and year-end basis
- Industry – Real Estate, Facility and construction management
Senior Financial Analyst
BGIS
01.2017 - 03.2020
- Company Overview: Industry – Real Estate, Facility and construction management
- Prepare and consolidate regional cash flow reports and review against projection forecasts, interpret and explain projection variances to senior management
- Analyze trends in income statements for revenue increase/decrease on individual business units and explain variances which assist the decision making
- Oversee cash flow requirements for our projects on business units, collaborate with treasury monthly to meet our legal obligations on construction payments
- Prepare trial balance adjustments such as accounting entries, revenue recognition entries and investigating discrepancies/errors during month end close activities
- Industry – Real Estate, Facility and construction management
Revenue Recognition Analyst
Telesat Canada
02.2013 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: Industry – satellite and broadband services
- Recognize monthly revenue and perform revenue adjustments such as amortizations, free period analysis necessary for accurate revenue recognition during month-end preparation for appropriate accruals or deferral as per IFRS
- Prepare monthly and quarterly variance analysis reports of revenue accounts in comparison with the previous year end figures
- Perform account reconciliations and ensure all GL accounts above $ 500,000 are reconciled in natural, home and operating currencies monthly
- Monitor and reconcile cash basis customers monthly and adjust revenue based on cash receipts as per their allotted payment plan
- Perform inter-company invoicing and record inter-company revenues for the month
- Prepare the monthly security deposits schedule and re-classify the deposits balance sheet accounts into short term and long-term deposits on a month-to-month basis
- Industry – satellite and broadband services
Billings Analyst
Telesat Canada
07.2011 - 01.2013
- Company Overview: Industry – satellite and broadband services
- Record and set-up billing details for invoice generation to Canadian and International customers
- Follow-up on assigned international billing portfolio on invoices due for payment, investigate and resolve disputes related to non-payment and update senior management
- Perform reconciliations on client records for invoices/ credit notes to ensure they tie to ERP master aged receivables on sub-ledger accounts
- Creation of the monthly AR Aged receivables report and reconciliation of the trade receivables balances to the sub ledger for identifying variances
- Industry – satellite and broadband services
Accounting Assistant / Shipping & Receiving Administrator
Mitel Networks
03.2011 - 06.2011
- Company Overview: Industry – Telecom / software, cloud services
- Balance cash, and POS terminal, preparing all related cash sales reports for the deposit and float
- Support Accounts Payable in posting of employee expense reports and Visa statements/Bank reconciliations
- Provide backup coverage for Shipping and Receiving related functions
- Industry – Telecom / software, cloud services
Education
CPA -
Chartered Professional accountants of Ontario
01.2022
MBA - Specialization in Finance
Manipal University
01.2009
B. Comm - Specialization in Accounting
Mangalore University
01.2007
Skills
- Project Management
- Advanced Excel
- MS Office applications
- Financial systems
- Oracle Net-suite
- Business Suite
- SAP
- Share-point
- ERP custom applications
Accomplishments
- Achieved [Result] by introducing [Software] for [Type] tasks.
- Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
Personal Information
Title: CPA
Current Role
Accounting Reporting Manager, BGIS, 01/01/17
Timeline
Accounting Reporting Manager
BGIS
04.2020 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
BGIS
01.2017 - 03.2020
Revenue Recognition Analyst
Telesat Canada
02.2013 - 12.2016
Billings Analyst
Telesat Canada
07.2011 - 01.2013
Accounting Assistant / Shipping & Receiving Administrator
Mitel Networks
03.2011 - 06.2011
MBA - Specialization in Finance
Manipal University
B. Comm - Specialization in Accounting
Mangalore University
CPA -
Chartered Professional accountants of Ontario
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