Gregory Kennedy

Background

About Gregory Kennedy

Profile A highly resourceful and analytical finance professional, who has eleven years of experience in streamlining financial processes and reporting tools in line with business objectives; adopts a win/win approach when building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships. Key Achievements • Instrumental in bringing Canada Post account live with JLL, including set-up and design of financial processes, procedures and staff for financial management of 983 client sites. • Conducted analysis of rates charged by payroll vendor for Cul-Mac Industries to negotiate a 2% decrease – saving the company US $50 K annually. • Selected by management to analyse numerical data and identified discrepancies related to expense forecast figures for internal security organization within Hewlett-Packard. Improved financial forecasting accuracy by 25% by educating organization leaders on financial tools/processes to increase their financial knowledge enabling leaders to make better financial decisions. • Avoided US $1.3 M write-off charge by leading 2008 Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit for internal transportation organization within Hewlett-Packard. Physically located assets deployed globally and updated financial records accordingly. • Increased accountability among operational managers by re-designing monthly close and financial forecasting requirements for internal healthcare delivery organization within Hewlett-Packard. Allowed for greater understanding of their own financial performance compared to annual regional targets. • Accomplished US $400 K per annum in cost savings by off-shoring invoicing function for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Developed and delivered training programme to 20 best-shore resources in India to train staff on client billing procedures. Provided continuous after-training support via email and phone conferencing. Specialties: • Streamlining of financial processes and operations • SAP financial reporting • Business Objects