GHIERHOL TURNBULL
Ontario
Summary
Experienced finance leader with a proven track record in delivering valuable insights and driving continuous improvement. Demonstrates inspirational leadership and excels at building meaningful relationships. Expertise in providing value-added solutions and spearheading strategic initiatives to optimize financial performance. Committed to leveraging finance expertise to contribute to organizational success and drive sustainable growth.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, IT
Teranet Inc.
03.2021 - Current
- Effective management and leadership of annual budgets and forecasts by ensuring reasonability of stakeholder assumptions and/or inputs, accuracy and completeness
- Drive continuous improvement in budgeting, forecasting and project financial reporting processes
- Deliver insightful, value-added analysis of monthly financial results - identifying trends, pressures, opportunities and upsides.
- Business case development, consultation and support
- Project finance SME on strategic projects, delivering regular project financial updates in steering committees, maintenance of financial models and business case
- Successfully develop and maintain relationships with core business partners and across the organization at varying levels
- Effective leadership and coaching to employees
- Established a Finops practice as part of Cloud migration project
Manager, Accounts Payable
Pattison Sign Group
09.2019 - 02.2021
- Provide general oversight and direction of the accounts payable process
- Manage a team of4 Accounts Payable clerks - providing guidance on AP best practices, building knowledge of the AP function
- Seeking ways to automate and/or improve business processes
- Providing analytical support to manage cashflow targets
- Review and approve monthly journal entries
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Pattison Sign Group
05.2018 - 02.2021
- Lead and managed budgeting, forecasting, reporting and financial management analysis
- Established and maintained relationships with key stakeholders through regular business reviews and ad-hoc financial management support
- Prepare, analyze, and interprets monthly and quarterly management performance reporting - including trends, highlighting gaps and potential opportunities
- Review and approve monthly journal entries
- Lead special projects that enhance the effective operation of the Finance Department
- Provide effective leadership and coaching of3 Senior Analysts - identifying opportunities for development, ensuring ongoing challenge and accountability and holding publication of reports and analysis to a high level of performance
Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis
Teranet Inc.
12.2011 - 05.2018
- Provide timely and insightful financial support to the CIO and Senior IT Leadership team
- Led the preparation and coordination of annual budgets and rolling forecasts for the IT dept
- Led monthly meetings with directors and the CIO to analyze spend and provide financial insight
- Monitored and analyzed financial and operational data trends
- Annual review of assumptions and maintenance of IT cost allocation model
- Consolidated financial information for key leadership meetings
- Reviewed and analyzed project spending throughout project life cycle
- Participated in the design, build, testing and implementation of BPC reporting software
- Performed business case analysis through financial modelling, sensitivity analysis, scenario-based analysis, risks and benefits analysis
- Prepared monthly journal entries related to IT expenses
- Recipient of2015 Teranet Employee of the Year Award nominated by IT Leadership team
- Finance SME in special projects such as data centre build, project tracking, Workday implementation
- Finance lead in implementation of SAP project accounting module: blue-printing, design, test, implementation
- Worked in a cross-functional team made of Finance, IT and an external consultant
- Developed DEV/UAT test scripts and training documentation
- Incorporated change management principles by communicating and involving stakeholders
- Led multiple end-user training sessions
- Successfully bridged business requirement of accurately costing, sourcing, and tracking IT projects to maximize profitability and detailed knowledge of IT project business processes as it relates to reporting and budgeting helped mitigate risks in the design and blue-printing phases, and allowed for a successful adoption of the tool post implementation
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Ryerson University
Toronto, ON01.2007
Skills
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Financial Analysis & Modelling
- People Management & Team Leadership
- Project Management & Reporting
- Relationship Management
- Change Management
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Powerpoint (Advanced)
- Microsoft Azure
- Workday
- Adaptive
- SAP
- Prophix
- BPC
- Cognos
- Dynamics
- Hyperion
Certification
- FinOps Certified Practioner, 2024
- Certified Management Accountant (CPA, CMA), 2010
Timeline
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, IT
Teranet Inc.
03.2021 - Current
Manager, Accounts Payable
Pattison Sign Group
09.2019 - 02.2021
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Pattison Sign Group
05.2018 - 02.2021
Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis
Teranet Inc.
12.2011 - 05.2018
- FinOps Certified Practioner, 2024
- Certified Management Accountant (CPA, CMA), 2010
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Ryerson University
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