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Swapnil Sharma

Toronto,Canada

Summary

Highly motivated and resourceful professional with over 5 years of experience in the construction industry. Possessing a comprehensive background in cost estimation and budget management, well-prepared for this role. Consistently making impactful contributions to project planning and execution, ensuring cost efficiency and adherence to timelines. Strong suit lies in effective teamwork, adaptability, and delivering reliable results. Proficient in cost analysis, project forecasting, and collaboration, a valuable asset to any construction team. Strong expertise in cost estimation, project management, and blueprint analysis. Skilled in collaborating with diverse teams to ensure accurate budget forecasts and successful project completions. Reliable and adaptable, with a knack for managing resources efficiently and meeting changing project demands. Proficient in software tools such as Planswift,Bluebeam, and MS Project. Focus is on delivering high-quality results.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Construction Estimator

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2025 - Current
  • Increased project accuracy by diligently reviewing plans and specifications for construction projects.
  • Streamlined the bidding process by managing multiple subcontractor quotes and ensuring timely submissions.
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by providing detailed cost breakdowns and accurate estimates for various project scopes.
  • Reduced estimation errors through thorough site visits and consultations with clients and architects.
  • Collaborated effectively with project teams to ensure smooth transitions from estimating to construction phases.
  • Analyzed and calculated field measurements, survey plans, and plot plans to create proposals and process work orders.

Finishing Supervisor

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2023 - 01.2025
  • Coordinated production operations by calculating material and labor needs to maximize resources.
  • Informed leadership of problems and situations that affected department performance and drove accountability by formulating solutions to resolve issues.
  • Maintained work area and equipment and followed prescribed safety procedures to minimize injuries and incidents.
  • Interacted with warehouse personnel to resolve inventory discrepancies and quality issues to reduce downtime.

Accounting Manager

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2023 - 01.2025
  • Managed journal entries, collection efforts, reconciliations, and payroll processing.
  • Managed banking reconciliations and monthly balance sheet statements.
  • Managed relationships with external vendors, ensuring timely payments and accurate recording of expenses.
  • Completed bi-weekly payroll for company employees.

Drywall Installer

Self Employed Services
11.2020 - 03.2023
  • Completed installation of drywall sheets on commercial and residential properties.
  • Prepared work area, tools and equipment for job site.
  • Installed drywall for residential and commercial projects with consistent attention to quality and safety.
  • Performed accurate cuts around electrical outlets, plumbing fixtures, and windows for seamless integration of drywall panels into existing structures.

Tile Setter

Services Plus Aquatics Inc.
10.2021 - 06.2022
  • Used power wet saws and tile cutters to cut tiles to specifications for projects.
  • Maintained a safe work environment through proper use of tools, equipment, and adherence to safety protocols.
  • Reviewed blueprints and specifications to determine labor and materials that would be required to complete tiling project.
  • Prepared surfaces for tiling using appropriate materials such as cement board or waterproof membrane to ensure long-lasting installations.

Junior Project Manager

Entertainment One
09.2019 - 11.2020
  • Supported Senior Project Manager in all aspects of leading a cross functional project team to meet all project deliverable objectives and implementation dates using established project management methodologies and standards
  • Developed and delivered presentations and reports to all the stakeholders periodically, to highlight the status of the project using MS Excel, PWA, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
  • Prepared and provided documentation for project governance including Gating, audit, and Change request management
  • Managed MS Teams, SharePoint, and BOX (User permissions, daily/weekly document upload, and version control via well-organized filing system)
  • Responsible for coordinating daily, weekly and bi-weekly meetings with cross departmental collaboration, taking meeting minutes, creating project materials, distributing of materials in the form of Word-Excel-PowerPoint reports and serve as stewardship of information to improve collaboration and record keeping on the project
  • Responsible for coordination and consolidation of Project Status Reports and Presentation Decks for Operational Committee and Steering Committee meetings
  • Also responsible for coordination, booking, monitoring attendance, distributing materials, and taking meeting minutes
  • Coordinated information flow between contractors, operations, and other internal stakeholders
  • Coordinated Data Validation/Verification and UAT with internal stakeholders
  • Supported Resource and vendor onboarding/offboarding
  • Assisted Change Management team in preparing communication plan for User Training and project go-live
  • Scheduled online/offline global user training sessions, provided required material, captured issues raised and prepared meeting minutes
  • Prepared and distributed post training/go-live surveys, prepared presentations for stakeholder based on feedback received
  • Managed and updated Project Schedule
  • Maintained internal/external resources timesheets using PWA for proper resource allocation and invoice approvals

Program Financial Analyst

Laurentian Bank
09.2018 - 08.2019
  • Managed project budget/financials for various IT projects across a portfolio of projects and programs
  • Responsible for tracking individual project burn rate and working closely with project managers to review their approved funds by cost component and identify any areas where they might be overruns and/or surpluses and reallocate accordingly
  • Maintained project budgets from initial seed / interim funding to the amalgamated budget set up after business case has been approved
  • Prepared monthly financial status reports to identify current burn rate, spend pattern and communicate to various stakeholder groups using tools such as MS Excel and other related spreadsheets V-lookups, Pivot tables, and running Macros
  • Coordinated weekly and monthly financial status meetings with project managers and program manager to review and discuss current spend and projected forecast
  • Conducted monthly reconciliation across projects to ensure that the budget was balanced and perform variance analysis where required
  • Conducted and supported the variance analysis with different business leads on a monthly basis (Forecast Vs project Actuals)
  • Managed resources while working on medium to large scale projects working with business stakeholders, vendors and technical team resources
  • Responsible for coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes, creating project materials, distributing of materials in the form of Word-Excel-PowerPoint reports and serve as stewardship of information to improve collaboration and record keeping on the project
  • Worked closely with finance to investigate any anomalies to individual project budget such as incorrect charges, pending PO charges, and cost component issues
  • Assisted project/program manager with the initiation of various program governance processes and artifacts; ensuring that all prescribed deliverables and documents are completed and signed off
  • Measured and monitored progress at clearly defined points to ensure all milestones, issues, and risks are tracked completely to ensure projects deliverables were completed on time and within gating hurdles, and budget and scope

Financial Controller

01.2017 - 08.2018
  • Primary day-to-day responsibility for reporting, planning, managing and controlling all financial-related activities of the company including direct responsibility for accounting, working capital finance, job costing, legal, and property management
  • Managed all finance and accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting and Revenue Recognition
  • Coordinated and directed the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and reported variances; Prepared year-end financial statements and managed preparation of external financial statements with public accountants
  • Developed and documented business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls; Ensured quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
  • Ensured credibility of Finance group by providing timely and accurate month end closing process including reconciliations of general ledger accounts, preparation of monthly financial statements and analysis of various budgets, financial trends and forecasts
  • Ensured effective internal controls are in place and in compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting

Education

Supply Chain Management -

Humber College

B. Comm. - Accounting

Devi Ahilya University

Integrated Professional Competence Course/Examination -

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

PMP Certification -

05.2026

Construction Estimator -

12.2025

Construction Technology - Construction Technology

York Construction Academy
09-2021

Skills

  • Microsoft Word
  • MS Access
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS Excel
  • MS Project
  • MS Visio
  • MS Outlook
  • MS Teams
  • BOX
  • Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC)
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Models
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • SharePoint
  • Asana
  • Planview
  • Clarity
  • JIRA
  • Bluebeam
  • Palnswift
  • Procore
  • Quickbooks
  • Budget development
  • Cost estimation
  • Bid preparation
  • Scope review
  • Labor costing
  • Quantity takeoffs
  • Material procurement
  • Cost analysis
  • Change order management
  • Construction materials
  • Document control
  • Subcontractor coordination
  • Vendor relationships
  • Project planning
  • Drywalling
  • Preparing estimates
  • Obtaining bids
  • Blueprint analysis
  • Vendor selection

Project Highlights

  • Ensure that the project is constructed according to plans, specifications and coordinate labour and material on site. Prepare construction plan, logistics.
  • Maintain cost controls on site. Check cost coding and review the cost report with the Project Manager on a monthly basis.
  • Take any action, at any time, deemed necessary to prevent any situation which could endanger any worker, person, or jeopardize the construction project in any manner whatsoever.
  • Co-operate with and advise Sub-trades and Suppliers.
  • Monitor performance and quality of work. Ensure all required inspections and authorizations are completed in accordance with the specifications.
  • Supervise, either directly or indirectly, the day-to-day activities of all personnel on site.
  • Take weekly photographs of construction progress.
  • Attend monthly site superintendent meetings with Manager, Field of Operations.
  • Manage construction project financials and budgets.
  • Handle invoicing and payment processing for construction projects.
  • Monitor project expenses and cash flow.
  • Prepare financial statements and reports for construction projects.
  • Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulations in the construction industry.
  • Conduct cost analysis and provide recommendations for cost-saving measures.
  • Monitor construction project contracts and change orders.
  • Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to track financial performance.
  • Implement financial controls specific to the construction industry.
  • Forecast financial outcomes for construction projects.
  • Communicate financial information effectively to non-financial team members.
  • Assist in financial audits related to construction projects.
  • Analyze financial data and provide insights to optimize project financials.
  • Evaluate project profitability and identify areas for improvement.
  • Support financial decision-making processes within the construction company.
  • Ensure budgets, timelines, and job costs are accurate and oversee all financial transactions for the company, including accounts payable and receivables, payroll, and bank reconciliation, HST prep, Union remittances, WSIB remittance, Year end books closing, Preparing/Reporting/Issuing T4’s and T5018.
  • Managing assisting in Internal and External Audits.
  • Prepare preliminary budgets, conceptual estimates and detail estimates for projects of varying size and complexity, including materials price lists, labor costs and equipment.
  • Research prior estimating data (purchase orders, subcontracts, productivity analysis reports, etc.) and compile summary reports to develop guidelines and precedents for future estimates.
  • Hand-off estimate and preferred/pre-defined subcontractors to project management team for final buyouts.
  • Have a working knowledge of material unit costs.
  • Work closely with project management and project development teams.
  • Research and recruit new subcontractors as required for design-build applications, and value engineering to drive competitive buyouts and strategically align with project management team on subcontractor qualifications.
  • Keep current on changes and trends in methods of construction and materials, construction costs, wage rates, fringes and working rules.
  • Participate in design progress meetings and client presentations as required.
  • Capable of using all Procore software elements to ensure proper job outcomes.
  • Using supply chain management software.
  • Performing cost analysis and implementing cost control.
  • Negotiating supply contracts.
  • Managing the vendor product supply chain.
  • Evaluating vendor services.
  • Resolving vendor complaints.
  • Part of chain management team, receiving PCO, CCN, SI’s preparing cost impact and coordinating.
  • Manage the change portfolio.
  • Manage stakeholders.
  • Support and engage senior leaders.
  • Assisting in OBC compliance with permit applications.
  • Preparing LEED documentation, Submittals as per specs, assisting in acquiring and sharing shop drawings with Clients.
  • Measure, cut and fit drywall sheets for installation on walls and ceilings.
  • Position and secure sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists.
  • Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners.
  • Laying ceramic tiles on walls and floors.
  • Preparing substrates for tile laying.
  • Cutting and shaping tiles.
  • Installation of finishing elements.
  • Ensuring aesthetic completion of work.
  • Adhering to health and safety regulations.

Professional Highlights

  • Proven track record of providing support for the successfully delivery of projects while adhering to system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC).
  • Experienced in project management and relationship management within the financial services industry.
  • Strong knowledge of Financial/budget analysis for monitoring, tracking and maintaining project financials including forecast, actual and variance analysis.
  • Highly skilled at relationship building with clients and across organizations and teams; with exceptional writing, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong negotiation, facilitation and time management skills with proven ability to prioritize and multitask.
  • Adept at assessing needs, generating options, and implementing solutions in collaboration with client and stakeholder needs.
  • Keen ability to understand and analyze problems, develop plan of action, and successfully complete the task within allocated time and budget.
  • Possess Strong communication skills to communicate complex issues in easily understandable terms in a timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques to provide project status report to multiple stakeholder groups.

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Punjabi
Full Professional

Timeline

Construction Estimator

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2025 - Current

Finishing Supervisor

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2023 - 01.2025

Accounting Manager

Omega Drywall Inc.
01.2023 - 01.2025

Tile Setter

Services Plus Aquatics Inc.
10.2021 - 06.2022

Drywall Installer

Self Employed Services
11.2020 - 03.2023

Junior Project Manager

Entertainment One
09.2019 - 11.2020

Program Financial Analyst

Laurentian Bank
09.2018 - 08.2019

Financial Controller

01.2017 - 08.2018

B. Comm. - Accounting

Devi Ahilya University

Integrated Professional Competence Course/Examination -

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

PMP Certification -

Construction Estimator -

Supply Chain Management -

Humber College

Construction Technology - Construction Technology

York Construction Academy
Swapnil Sharma