Bruce Conway

Played several key leadership roles over the years impacting product management, customer engagement and satisfaction, professional services, sales support, and thought leadership. 

• The initial 12 years, I was Vice-President of Operations given a large part of my role was providing leasing managed services to Lessee customers in addition to being heavily involved in all aspects of running a business, including sales support as SME, and assisting in budgeting & accounting. 
• Since 2010, the year the exposure drafts for ASC 842 and IFRS 16 were issued, my role evolved to the Companies technical accounting leader, and my title was eventually changed to Vice-President Lease Accounting.
• As employee # 1 of a Company that is now over 200 employees, I was a key part of the leadership team for this Startup in 2000 that now serves more than 230 of the Fortune 1000 and hundreds of other companies, non-profits, and government entities.
• I recommend that anyone interested in pursuing an employment opportunity with me read the recommendations on linkedIn that will provide an unbiased opinion from supervisors, peers and employees, and provides significant details about my core strengths accomplishments.
• While my position suggests a focus on technical lease accounting, I believe my core strengths are all business aspects of enterprise lease management.  This includes operations, software implementation and migration, integration mapping, workflows, internal controls (SOC 1 Type 2), business process improvements, lease negotiation and financial analysis of the costs and benefits of leasing. 
• Building, training, and retaining a highly professional team of CPA’s to scale.

LeaseAccelerator | Montreal 2000 – March, 2022
Vice-President Lease Accounting
Played several key leadership roles over the years impacting product management, customer engagement and
satisfaction, professional services, sales support, and thought leadership.
 Providing leasing managed services to Lessee customers heavily involved in all aspects of running a
business, including sales support as SME, and assisting in budgeting & accounting.
 Technical accounting leader for the issuance of the exposure drafts for ASC 842 and IFRS 16, where title
was eventually changed to Vice-President Lease Accounting.
 Key player on the leadership team for the Startup in 2000 that now serves more than 230 of the Fortune
1000 and hundreds of other companies, non-profits, and government entities.
 Core strengths includes operations, software implementation and migration, integration mapping,
workflows, internal controls (SOC 1 Type 2), business process improvements, lease negotiation and
financial analysis of the costs and benefits of leasing.
 Building, training, and retaining a highly professional team of CPAs to scale.
 

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Bombardier Capital | Montreal, Divisional Controller – Technology Management Finance (Leasing)
 All controllership functions except tax and treasury.
 $450 million assets under management.
 Reason for Leaving: Division wind-down.

CIBC Finance Inc. | Toronto, Acting Controller (Leasing & Student Loans)
 All controllership functions except tax and treasury.
 Several Billion assets under management.
 Reason for Leaving: Division wind-down.

AT&T Capital Canada | Toronto, Tax Manager – Leasing
 Responsibility for all areas relating to accounting and disclosure of Deferred Income Tax
 Provided all supporting documentation for tax returns

KPMG | Toronto, Senior Accountant
Price Waterhouse | Toronto, Junior Accountant

McGill University Montreal, Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (CPA Program)
McGill University Montreal, Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting & Information Systems