Yogesh Shah, CPA, CMA

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Senior Finance Leader with extensive experience aligning financial and accounting strategies with the business objectives of complex global pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing firms. Effectively work with all stakeholders within and outside of the organization. Exceptional change and project management skills. Ability to form, manage and motivate high performance teams to achieve critical organizational objectives.

CORE SKILL

Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Costing, Financial Modelling, Cash Flow Management,

KPI Development, Project Management, Tax Planning, Strategic Planning, Business Analysis & Optimization, Canadian and US GAAP, IFRS, GAAS, SOX, Transfer Pricing, Internal Control

TECHNOLOGY

J D Edward MS Office Hyperion Essbase SAP Lotus Notes Crystal Reports

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Piramal Healthcare Canada Limited, Aurora ON • Nov 2009 to Dec 2014

Head of Finance/Controller

Oversee daily operations of Finance, Accounting, IT, HR, Supply Chain and Shipping departments.

Direct the financial planning and budget management function which includes analyzing monthly operating results against budget and prior periods to identify any unusual trends that might impact short or long term financial objectives.

Develop strategy that supports business growth, establishing short and long term goals, objectives, policies and operating procedures in Finance, Administration, Supply Chain and Shipping departments; use organizational structure to effectively accomplish goals.

Ensure all accounts, ledgers and reporting systems comply with appropriate Canadian GAAP, US GAAP, Indian GAAP and IFRS standards & regulatory requirements.

Maintain appropriate financial controls with supporting policies and procedures, ensuring records systems are maintained in accordance with company guidelines and applicable legislation.

Leverage strengths of current team members, help to clarify roles & responsibilities and develop training programmes that reach optimal individual and organization goals.

Project financial five year strategic and project plan for providing financial expertise and value-added management to support the achievement of business objectives while fostering excellent partner relationships.

Key Achievements

Saved more than $1.5M in tax savings by restructuring a subsidiary and the shareholders’ investment and loan to the subsidiary.

Increased SR & ED tax credit claim by $3.5 million by redefining cost allocation to developmental project (successfully defended with CRA).

Improve win ratio by 10% by redesigning project cost model to gain more accurate results for each completed project and changing the criteria to submit cost for RFP.

Integrated accounting of acquired business and completed due diligence for discontinued business.

Key finance member of team that successfully launched a product acquired from a life science unit in bankruptcy, using an innovative sales team, distributorship and commission agent hybrid model.

Indalex Aluminum Solution, Toronto, ON • Feb 2006 to Nov 2009

Controller

Administered capital and operating budgets, operational accounting and divisional costing for three manufacturing plants; led and mentored a team of Accountants and Analysts.

Published meaningful management reports using JD Edwards as the system platform together with complementary ancillary programmes for presentation to various levels of management.

Drive operating performance by partnering with and providing support and leadership to the operating team to deliver on business initiatives and profitability.

Oversaw all local statutory, FX & taxation issues; coordinated annual audit process.

Ensured accounting process compliance consistency with GAP, local statutory requirements, SOX and with US as well as Canadian GAAP.

Administered the Corporate Product Profitability Model (CPPM) on all capital expenditures, optimizing financial controls surrounding purchases, payables and the payment process.

Provided insight on the financial implications of future results through the forecast process.

Spearheaded the annual budgeting process for manufacturing, including P&L and balance sheet development and budget/strategic plan presentation and submission of final budget package.

Key Achievement

Improved employee efficiency by almost 8% and reduced operational costs by more than 10% by implementing a Key Performance Indicator for the employee incentive programme.

Multy Industries Inc., Concord ON • Jan 2005 to Feb 2006

Plant Accountant

Orchestrated strategic and annual planning, budgeting and analyzing of brand/category profitability.

Acted as a business partner and advisor to marketing and sales function on short and long term profitability and evaluation of innovation and promotion proposals.

Led competitive profitability analysis from concept to presentation.

Developed and implemented standard costing system.

Produced monthly analysis that include price, material consumption and overhead variances.

Continuously improved the financial and operational reports to ensure compliance with business structure using SAP as system platform.

Key Achievements

Improved gross margin by 6% by developing and implementing standard costing system while supporting sales team to develop effective pricing strategy using contribution margin module.

Led Supply Chain Team to achieve logistics cost savings of $3M.

Key member of ERP implementation team while developing/implementing standard costing system

Progressive Molded Products. Concord ON • April 2004 to Jan 2005

Finance Leader

Automotive parts manufacturing company with annual turnover of cad$200 million.

Responsible for Costing, budgeting and analyzing of divisional profitability.

Preparing month end reports, detailed variance analysis reports. Preparing rolling forecast.

Maintain costing files and Bill of Material for all the products. Managing inventory control and perpetual inventory management.

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Ainsworth Inc., Toronto ON • June 2001 to Mar 2004

Project Cost Analyst

Interact with, and assist three business units with their monthly reporting and forecast requirements

Analysis and reconciliation of business unit information. Develop, improve and maintain financial model and analytical tool.

Evaluate, implement and monitor monthly cost/benefit analysis for every job.

Consolidation and preparation of corporate financial statement and supplementary schedule on a monthly basis for periodic forecast, audit and annual budget.

Part of the implementation team for installation of costing/financial reporting/accounting system on AS400 One word ERP system

Managed three big projects under TPM (Total Plant Maintenance) program.

Key Achievements

Developed new financial model for reporting under TPM contract for reporting to third party as per contract agreement.

Premier Industries Limited., Nairobi, Kenya • Feb 1991 to Feb 2001

General Manager- Finance

Premier Industries a private owner managed, company with sales during my tenure growing from $ 50 million to $500 million.

Manufacturing of food products, plastic packaging material and distributor of Makita brand maintenance equipment.

EDUCATION

Certified Management Accountant, CPA, CMA-Canada

Certified Public Accountant, A.I.C.P.A.: Illinois, U.S.A.

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Graduate): C.I.M.A., India

Bachelors in Law, MS University, India

Bachelor of Commerce: South Gujarat University, India

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