Senior Accountant, Audit at KPMG LLP (2025-07 – Present)
- Lead audit engagements for major energy utility and real estate clients, leading teams of up to eight professionals and managing direct communications with client executives.
- Manage engagements from planning through completion by assigning work, monitoring progress, leading internal and client status meetings, coordinating outstanding requests and escalating significant audit or accounting matters.
- Supervise and review the deliverables of junior staff, providing targeted coaching on documentation standards and the sufficiency of audit evidence, helping reduce rework before manager review.
- Identify and propose audit adjustments, review financial statements and disclosures, and draft findings reports for manager and partner review.
- Redesigned payroll audit procedures following a client's implementation of a new system by documenting end-to-end data flows, reconciling payroll to the general ledger and cash, and expanding testing over payroll expense and capitalized labour.
Staff Accountant, Audit at KPMG LLP (2024-01 – 2025-06)
- Progressed from completing assigned audit sections to independently managing smaller engagements without an assigned senior, including client communication, audit documentation, outstanding requests and engagement deadlines.
- Performed audit procedures across cash, receivables, payables, revenue, inventory, payroll, property and equipment, leases, debt, investments, derivatives and financial-statement disclosures.
- Prepared planning and substantive working papers, documented client processes, investigated discrepancies, resolved review comments and communicated findings directly to managers and client personnel.
Staff Accountant, Audit Co-op at Deloitte LLP (2023-01 – 2023-04)
- Supported audits of privately held real estate entities and foundations by preparing planning documentation, maintaining client-request lists and processing audit evidence.
- Prepared cash audit working papers and performed substantive procedures by vouching and tracing transactions to invoices, bank statements and other supporting documentation.
- Documented client operations and business processes and followed up on outstanding support to complete audit procedures within engagement deadlines.
Accounting & Controls Co-op at PepsiCo Foods Canada (2022-05 – 2022-08)
- Built a Power BI dashboard to track corporate credit card expenses, reducing reporting lag and improving expense policy compliance.
- Collaborated with financial reporting analysts across PepsiCo divisions to document the foreign-exchange revaluation process in a formal accounting memo, improving consistency and clarity around existing procedures.
- Supported month-end close by preparing journal entries in Oracle, completing tax and bank reconciliations in Microsoft Excel, and presenting working-capital analysis to the Controller and Senior Leadership.
Financial Analyst Co-op at CRH Canada Group Inc. (2021-09 – 2021-12)
- Planned and coordinated an internal audit of fixed assets which involved physically counting roughly 1,500 fixed assets and mobile equipment located at 36 sites across Ontario.
- Prepared EBITDA analysis presentations at the end of every month, which compared monthly and year-to-date actuals with their respective budgets, as well as providing explanations for the significant variances between actual and budget.
- Worked closely with the sales team to perform market analysis on 3 new markets that CRH planned to enter.
