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Robert A. Ellerby, CPA, CMA

Markham, ON +1 (647) 680-5312 rae@ellerby.ca

A Chartered Professional Accountant with demonstrated portable skills
20+ years experience in sound financial management and working in executive teams
Comfortable in dealing with people at all levels within the organization
Able to get the job done!



Skills

Strategic: Acquisitions, disposals, integrations, turnarounds, restructuring, cost reduction, continuous
improvement, ISO 9001, supply chain optimization, business impact analysis, IT management, ERP
implementations and improvements, investigative research, due diligence
Accounting: Financial and management reporting with related variance analysis, IFRS, J-SOX, cash management,
corporate and commodity taxation, financial and cash flow budgeting and forecasting, manufacturing
costing with standard cost buildups, landed cost of imports, supply chain analysis, sales and gross
profit analysis (by price, cost, volume and mix)
IT platforms: Windows 7, Windows XP Professional, Windows Exchange, Windows 2003 Server
Reporting systems: Accpac, Microsoft Dynamics, Intuitive ERP (all with SQL back-ends)
Reporting and analytical
software:
Microsoft (MS) Office Professional (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint), LibreOffice (Writer,
Calc, Draw, Base, Impress, Math), ODBC queries, R, Business Intelligence and Performance
Dashboard applications



Experience

Self-employed
Toronto, ON
Consulting CMA, 2010present

Provision of business advisory services, focusing on independent and objective
reviews to assist management, as well as interim management engagements in
start-up and turnaround situations.

Worked with Canada Revenue Agency, Ontario Ministry of Finance, Ontario
Ministry of Labour and Workers' Safety and Insurance Board to clear files on
behalf of client.
Dealt with CRA inquiry relating to the dissolution of a manufacturing company
and issues concerning certain former key managers. Inquiry was closed with
no outstanding matters remaining open.



MKG Imaging Solutions
Mississauga, ON
Controller, 19992010

Directed all finance and IT functions for the company, including financial reporting,
receivables, payables, inventory, and product costing, and managed a staff of six.

Moved the company reporting structure from handling the requirements of
entrepreneurial sole-ownership, to collaboration with another US-based
investor, to eventual acquisition by a Japan-based public company.
Coordinated due-diligence exercises relating to the above acquisitions,
working closely with legal, accounting and advisor teams on both sides,
located in Toronto, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Maryland.
Performed two ERP implementations (six years apart) - the first one in
Accpac (which extended functionality to include inventory control), and the
other on Intuitive ERP (which extended integration to include CRM). Latter
exercise included institution of tender procedures, which ensured a savings of
$500K on the final negotiated price.
Established Access-based procedures to track production labour and output
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previously tracked on paper, enabling the calculation of efficiencies over time
by line on an output of 50,000 units per month.
Simplified cash collection procedures through establishing lockbox
arrangements on both Canadian and US bank accounts, thereby reducing
travel time to the bank on a daily basis, and transit times by one week from
US-based customers.
Secured release from assignment to Special Accounts at Bank of Montreal
during the 2001-2002 downturn, after having reduced indebtedness by $1
million (ie, 50% of the total). This also involved managing the company's
relationship with the bank's monitor.
Implemented and managed an asset-based lending arrangement with Royal
Bank of Canada for two years. This included coordination of reporting efforts
with RBC's field examiner.
Played key role on company negotiations with union on collective bargaining
agreement, ensuring longest term ever for stable labour relations.

Endpoint Research
Toronto, ON
Controller, 1999

Covered for incumbent who was on leave, managing financial reporting, cash
management, payroll, billing and payables functions with a staff of two.

Starting at the beginning of January, caught up - in three weeks - delays
created by previous incumbent on time-and-expenses billings which were 60
days in arrears, corrected final payroll for the year just ended with
consequential corrections of T4 reporting, and rendered up-to-date bank
reconciliations which had been five months behind.
Accelerated billing cycle by two weeks from previous benchmarks. Accounting
system was Solomon, which had to be learnt from scratch - this was achieved
within one month.

Debjaun Construction
Brampton, ON
Controller, 1997-1998

Responsible for financial reporting and cash monitoring for a privately-held group
of companies - one in property management (holding three commercial
properties), two in operating independent medical assessment clinics (in Toronto
and Hamilton), two in operating rehabilitation clinics (in Toronto and Brampton),
one in occupational assessment pre-screening services, and one in management
services.

Prepared and filed commodity and corporate tax returns for all companies in
the group.
Simplified financial reporting and instituted standardized cash flow reporting.
Designed the above procedures within an ownership structure (and
consequent banking and reporting) that was complicated by the presence of
two holding companies controlled by different principals, with cash
movements and intercompany services performed and settled across all
members of the group.

Allied Canadian Corp
Toronto, ON
Controller, 19931996

Responsible for all financial reporting and cash monitoring for almost two dozen
commercial and industrial property real estate joint ventures and limited
partnerships.

Prepared and filed all commodity tax returns, corporate tax returns for general
partners, and T5013 partnership information returns for all limited partnership
investors.
Prepared and issued monthly cash distributions to investors in accordance
with the terms specified in the limited partnership agreements, by cheque and
by electronic funds transfer.
Simplified and streamlined financial reporting for all reporting entities.
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Consolidated reporting was not an option, as there was no common
ownership present.
Accelerated reporting cycle for all entities by one week.
Promoted a cooperative education programme with the Toronto Board of
Education for allowing recent immigrants to gain Canadian work experience.

Purity Life Health Products
Acton, ON
Controller, 19911992

Responsible for all financial reporting, accounts receivable and collections,
accounts payable, and inventory management, costing and reconciliation;
managing a staff of five.

Prepared and filed commodity tax returns for the company.
Streamlined procedures for quarterly inventory counting and valuation, which
accelerated reconciliation and valuation cycle by one week.
Simplified financial reporting routines and procedures, thereby accelerating
reporting timetables by several days.

Danbel Industries
Toronto, ON
Controller, 19851991

Responsible for financial reporting, cost accounting, accounts receivable and
collections, accounts payable, and IT programming and services, and managing a
staff of nine.

Established new accounting system for all companies in the group, after its
acquisition by Noma Industries.
Managed inventory counts and reconciliations on a twice-yearly basis.
Coordinated annual audits with head office internal audit and with external
auditors.
Prepared and filed all commodity and corporate tax returns for the company.
Directed due diligence procedures for three corporate acquisitions and one
business disposal.
Achieved complete replacement from the ground up of all internal systems
with a single ERP environment.
Devised and implemented innovative procedures that integrated
manufacturing costs to all underlying landed costs of imported product within
a multi-level bill of material structure.
Negotiated new service agreements that helped reduce costs by 15% on IT
systems hardware maintenance for the parent's entire group of ten
companies.
Rationalized corporate charitable donation programme, in order to focus on a
more select group of recipients.
Elected to the executive of the company social club, actively working on
maintaining a year-round schedule of activities.

Robert A. Ellerby, CPA, CMA +1 (647) 680-5312 rae@ellerby.ca