Brad Abrams

Background

About Brad Abrams

Key Accomplishments: • Effectively managed double digit growth for five years, increasing business volume from $21 to $50 million • Instituted cost saving programs reducing selling and administrative expenses by an average of between 2 to 5% per year • Restructured and redesigned accounting departments and processes reducing transactional processing times by half • Successfully implemented ERP systems to yield increased management control and reliability of results • Proactively managed supply chain to yield consistent raw material availability in a highly volatile environment. Averted product supply interruptions and prevented construction delays that would have cost between $2 and $5 million dollars • Redesigned processes to provide annual days of working capital reduction of 14% • Managed multi-million dollar, multi-year capital asset project to provide standard cost savings of 12%, and effectively reduced labour hours lost to injury to zero • Successfully managed union relationship such that we had zero lost time due to work stoppage, and maintained wage increases completely in line with annual inflation • Efficiently redesigned network architecture to migrate to off-site cloud based server to improve data throughput by 150% • Designed and implemented processes and reporting architecture to support a robust FP & A function in a multi-currency, multi-national environment