MARYAM AFSHAR
Aurora,Canada
Summary
Highly accomplished professional with extensive experience in procurement, category management, and vendor management. Proven expertise in driving cost-saving initiatives, fostering supplier relationships, and ensuring compliance with corporate policies and ethical standards. Demonstrated success in managing complex contracts, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering strategic sourcing initiatives to meet organizational goals.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Category Lead
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Technology Procurement
- Lead procurement initiatives for assigned categories and projects, achieving cost savings, business objectives, and stakeholder goals
- Develop and implement cost-saving opportunities, leveraging demand aggregation, standardization, and total cost of ownership reductions
- Act as a primary escalation point for supplier-related issues, ensuring prompt resolution and stakeholder satisfaction
- Analyze spend data to identify sourcing opportunities and drive cost take-out initiatives
- Track and align procurement savings with budget expectations, ensuring accurate reporting against targets
- Foster relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure category strategies and supplier performance meet business needs
- Created sourcing projects, including RFPs, RFQs, and RFXs, to evaluate supplier proposals
- Technology Procurement
Vendor Management Specialist
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
11.2021 - 05.2024
- Company Overview: Vendor Management
- Collaborated with Operations, Engineering, and Finance teams to align contract renewal strategies with business objectives
- Validated contract renewal requirements, ensuring decommissioned equipment was removed and renewal terms met operational needs
- Facilitated discussions between stakeholders and vendors to optimize renewal terms and financial outcomes
- Prepared detailed renewal documentation for leadership review and approval
- Prepared Ad-hoc reports as requested by Operations or Engineering teams
- Worked closely with the business team during the budget cycle to capture costs for upcoming contracts
- Submitted requisitions for approved contracts and validate invoices for payment
- Vendor Management
Financial & Claims Analyst
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
01.2021 - 11.2021
- Company Overview: Damage Prevention
- Supported the manager by taking a leadership role in the management of the claims process while using the claims tool
- Compiled month-end reports and dashboards for management
- Report recoveries at end of each month to the finance department
- Collected necessary information for claims recoveries and recommended appropriate actions to resolve outstanding issues
- Worked directly with the finance department on updating and maintaining Damage Claims account recs/balances
- Maintained and updated Finance and damage tracking logs related to the damage claims
- Damage Prevention
Accountant and Payroll Specialist
Quick Accounting & Business Services Limited.
01.2021 - 11.2021
- Served as key contact with clients, providing information and advice regarding services, or resolution of accounting issues, both by phone and in person
- Managed all A/P and A/R functions and administer weekly payroll for up to 30 staff using Sage 50, ensuring entry of accurate pay rates
- Ensured proper pay rates and that individual payroll changes are received and entered into system to ensure accuracy of individual paychecks
- Derived and make payments for client GST, PST, and Employee Tax Deduction amounts before monthly deadlines
- Prepared financial statements and reports for a wide range of businesses in line with fiscal year-end requirements
Staff Accountant
Hogg, Shain & Sheck Professional Corporation
01.2018 - 10.2018
- Company Overview: Boutique professional services firm providing audit, tax, and advisory services to not-for-profits, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the GTA and across southern Ontario
- Executed audit engagements, including external audits and engagement reviews
- Full accountability for client accounts, maintaining strong working relationships, and ensuring streamlined financial reporting on account activities
- Prepared both corporate and personal (more than 100) income tax returns using Tax Prep software
- Identified and corrected discrepancies and/or irregularities in financial entries, documents, and reports
- Boutique professional services firm providing audit, tax, and advisory services to not-for-profits, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the GTA and across southern Ontario
Tax Specialist (Internship)
BDO Canada LLP
01.2016 - 05.2016
- Company Overview: BDO provides a broad range of financial services including assurance and accounting, tax, advisory, and outsourcing
- Implemented tax savings and registered savings plans for clients with income in excess of $1 million to capitalize on business opportunities
- Calculated and input interest, dividend, foreign, federal and provincial income; calculated tax rebates, along with T3, T1, T4, and T5 statements for returns; researched tax issues and prepared memoranda or client letters
- Prepared tax accrual working in accordance with applicable accounting standards
- Provided support to the accounting and finance department, helping to meet state filing deadlines and compile necessary documentation
- BDO provides a broad range of financial services including assurance and accounting, tax, advisory, and outsourcing
Education
Project Management Professional (PMP) Program -
05-2025
Bachelor of Commerce - International Accounting and Finance
Seneca College
Toronto, ON01-2017
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Azad University
01-2005
Skills
- Strategic Sourcing
- Category Management
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Communication
- Cost Savings
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Compliance
- Ethical Procurement Standards
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Contract Management
- Negotiations
- Budget Alignment
- Reporting
- MS Office Suite
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Teams
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
Languages
English and Farsi
Certification
Project Management Training Program July 2024
Quickbooks Certification Nov 2017
Personal and Corporate Income Taxes Dec 2016
Timeline
Category Lead
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
05.2024 - Current
Vendor Management Specialist
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
11.2021 - 05.2024
Financial & Claims Analyst
Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
01.2021 - 11.2021
Accountant and Payroll Specialist
Quick Accounting & Business Services Limited.
01.2021 - 11.2021
Staff Accountant
Hogg, Shain & Sheck Professional Corporation
01.2018 - 10.2018
Tax Specialist (Internship)
BDO Canada LLP
01.2016 - 05.2016
Project Management Professional (PMP) Program -
Bachelor of Commerce - International Accounting and Finance
Seneca College
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Azad University
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