Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Peter Hilton

Abbotsford,Canada

Summary

Meticulous professional with a strong financial and accounting background. Demonstrated expertise in budgeting, revenue distribution, and expenditure forecasting for strategic decision-making. A highly motivated employee with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cost Accountant

All Roads Construction Ltd.
Langley
08.2020 - Current

Asphalt Plant Costing Analysis and KPIs:
- Oversee the sales ticketing and billing process.
- Manage costing and accounts payable coding.
- Reconcile inventory between actual and GL and report findings.
- Take actions to mitigate future variances.
- Report monthly KPIs, P&L, and sales analysis.
- Forecast and budget.
- Provide ad hoc reporting to ownership upon request for strategic decisions.

Construction Costing Analysis:
- Oversee the costing process for construction field employees to ensure accuracy in project costing reporting.
- Manage the project review process and provide insights into final project forecasting.
- Upload and input project load process to costing software (B2W Operations Suite) and ERP (Explorer Eclipse).
- Develop standardized costing procedures to be used across all projects.

Costing System Administrator:
- Maintenance of master data.
- Management of transactional data and training of modules for operations and administration.
- Integration of external systems (ERP / Safety).
- Reconciliation of ERP to costing systems.
- Identification and reporting of anomalies within GL between divisions of the company.
- Administration of production plant setup and maintenance of sales products, product pricing, inventory constituents, BOMs and vendor/customer master.

Project Accounting Manager

Metric Modular
Agassiz
01.2020 - 07.2020

Invoicing and Revenue Recognition:
- Invoicing (monthly for progress draws, on completion for others)
- Revenue recognition process (monthly)
- Coordinating with project managers for costs
- Reviewing management project reports
- Reviewing invoices for approval
- Identifying missing purchase orders
- Managing accounts receivable (weekly)
- Providing accounts payable support (ad hoc)
- Setting up jobs in NAV (ERP) (ad hoc)
- Importing labour into NAV (ERP) (bi-weekly)
- Attending project and finance meetings

Finance Manager GVA

Lafarge Canada Inc
Coquitlam, BC
08.2018 - 01.2020

- Provide financial support to operating managers such as General Manager, Plant Managers, etc.
- Collaborate with the Director of Reporting, Analysis, and Control and the SSC to achieve Finance objectives.
- Interpret events and activities from a financial perspective on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
- Review the balance sheet, including clearing accounts, inventory, reserves and working capital, WIP, AR and AP holdbacks.
- Maintain financial and accounting controls and ensure adherence to company policies.
- Work closely with the business to prepare budgets, forecasts, and MTP.
- Oversee Revenue Recognition in construction and prepare and review Revenue Journals in the approved format.
- Provide timely, informative, and reliable financial information for local senior management and Market Finance Director.

Finance Analyst, WCAN Aggregates

Lafarge Canada Inc
Surrey, Canada
07.2013 - 08.2018

- Assemble and update budgets and forecasts.
- Provide analysis to support business decisions.
- Perform standard and ad-hoc analyses for Product Line management.
- Participate in the production of the monthly reporting package, including Dashboard, HFM Variance, Cost Trackers, and Cost Price Delta's.
- Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies in all work environments.
- Monitor and ensure that Product Line Month End reporting schedules and commitments are adhered to.
- Acquire a strong knowledge of the business.
- Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
- Liaise with SSC to ensure collaborative achievement of Finance objectives.
- Participate in the review and enhancement of internal controls, accounting policies, and business processes.
- Effectively link Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other financial performance analyses with financial reporting.
- Ensure consistency of accounting/statutory reporting and product line reporting.
- Conduct detailed Month End Analysis.
- Provide timely monthly management reporting.
- Effectively flag business issues based on financial and trend analysis.
- Continuously improve operating and reporting efficiencies.
- Ensure compliant usage of common system tools.

Job Cost Accountant

Columbia Bitulithic a division of Lafarge Canada Inc
Coquitlam
03.2012 - 07.2013

Finance Analyst - GVA Ready-Mix

Lafarge Canada Inc
Coquitlam, Canada
02.2011 - 03.2012

Job Cost Accountant

Westlake Paving and Aggregates Ltd
Kelowna, Canada
10.2007 - 02.2011

Education

Strategic Leadership Program -

Certified Management Accountants of BC (CMA)
01.2011

Accounting Technician Diploma -

Thompson Rivers University
01.2001

Skills

  • Financial Reporting
  • Variance Analysis
  • Sales/Cost Analysis
  • Cost Allocation
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Financial / Project Budget Development
  • Project Forecasting
  • Working Capital Analysis
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management
  • Organizational Skills
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Adaptability and Flexibility

Certification

  • Certified Management Accountant
  • Excel: Power Query for Beginners

Timeline

Cost Accountant

All Roads Construction Ltd.
08.2020 - Current

Project Accounting Manager

Metric Modular
01.2020 - 07.2020

Finance Manager GVA

Lafarge Canada Inc
08.2018 - 01.2020

Finance Analyst, WCAN Aggregates

Lafarge Canada Inc
07.2013 - 08.2018

Job Cost Accountant

Columbia Bitulithic a division of Lafarge Canada Inc
03.2012 - 07.2013

Finance Analyst - GVA Ready-Mix

Lafarge Canada Inc
02.2011 - 03.2012

Job Cost Accountant

Westlake Paving and Aggregates Ltd
10.2007 - 02.2011

Strategic Leadership Program -

Certified Management Accountants of BC (CMA)

Accounting Technician Diploma -

Thompson Rivers University
Peter Hilton