Norm Tumak

Entrepreneurial and impact-focused Finance Business Partner with 16 years progressive corporate experience.   Demonstrated ability to collaborate with business unit leaders and globally-based, interdisciplinary teams solving complex problems for clients in a wide range of industries.  Continuously seeking out new ways to improve processes and make things better for internal and external clients and stakeholders.   

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Developed and implemented a division-wide process to generate, consolidate, analyse and evaluate quarterly and annual forecasts (target, budget, outlook, and flash), improving transparency, accuracy, and speed. 
• Consolidated Canada-level Executive Report package and provided analysis and commentary for Global input  
• Prepared walks, waterfall charts, PowerPoint decks, dashboards and variance explanations for executive reports 
• Maintain FP&A databases and systems for the Canada region (based on SAP, Excel, Business Objects)
• Provided constant on-call support to Canada CFO and operations leaders for issues and ad-hoc questions
• Developed and implemented a dashboard format to simplify the transmission of information re budgeting

Problem Solving and Decision Support

• Developed and improved financial models for costing and pricing of enterprise level deals, including new lines of business and unique client situations
• Collaborated with stakeholder teams to validate and consolidate costing data and understand the impact of various solution options, providing expert advice on price-to-win, margin, and risk impacts.  
• Support client-facing team with real-time roll-ups and analysis for multiple iterations through the solutions development and sales process  
• For renewal deals, performed deep dive analysis on historical financials and operational data to help the solutioning group fully understand current baseline and have a common starting point 
• Prepared a white paper analysing the historical interplay between currency fluctuations and local inflation rates, demonstrating current policies were double-counting risk and leading to over-pricing of certain types of deal, leading to a change in policy and a new competitive edge in pricing services from certain offshore locations  
• Advanced Excel skills, including ad-hoc queries from SAP, pivot tables, charts, lookups

Controllership

• Performed day-to-day accounting tasks and develop ad-hoc reports using SAP, BusinessVision, QuickBooks, Eclipse
• Prepared accounting entries, allocations, bank reconciliations, cheque runs, tax filings, and variance analysis
• Pitched and led a Canada-India collaborative working group to analyse and solve issues with journal entry documentation and processing, getting to zero rejection rate and full on-time processing within six months.

• CPA (CMA) Designation, 2006-2020 (on hold during career break, to be reactivated)
• CMA Consulting Program, 2008-2009
• CMA Strategic Leadership Program, 2003-2006
• Honours BBA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1988-1992