Business Paradigms, Inc.

R. Scott White
Mississauga, Ontario
(905) 891-3311

PROFILE

An innovative Accounting and Systems Specialist who combines backgrounds in accounting, psychology and computer systems to improve the staff efficiency and reporting capabilities of the controllership function. 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
BUSINESS PARADIGMS, INC., Mississauga, Ontario (1994-Present)
President
  • Served as team leader to implement Peoplesoft Project Management for a nationally known U.S. public utility. Directed the project data mapping from their legacy system and provided quality assurance for its conversion integrity. Mapped the charts of account for ten newly acquired subsidiaries from J.D. Edwards to Peoplesoft.
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  • Provided accounting, reporting and training services to a cross-border equipment-leasing company during its implementation of Microsoft Great Plains accounting software and its setup of Canadian and US payroll policies and procedures.
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  • Assisted a local high-tech enterprise in exporting its accounting data from Platinum to QuickBooks Pro. Provided staff training and direction to reconstruct twenty months of data to produce consolidated financial statements. Currently serve as the out-sourced controller.
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  • Designed and tested system enhancements for a $4 billion client to calculate and journalize direct labour allocations from timesheets, cost of sales accruals based on purchase order percentage of completion, and import expense claims from non-integrated systems.
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  • Trained the staff of a TSE listed medical software company to do financial account analyses in preparation for the annual audit.
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  • Edited an arbitration factum to help a client win a $750,000 settlement.
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  • Reconstructed seven years of accounting records for preparation of a voluntary disclosure to Revenue Canada.
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  • Assisted in preparing numerous three-year business plans for a client's public offering.
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    TESCOR ENERGY SERVICES INC., North York, Ontario (1994-1998)
Chief Accountant

    A multi-million dollar, environmental, high-tech, energy conservation company listed by the Financial Post as one of Canada's Fifty Best-Managed Private Companies and by Profit Magazine as Canada's 18th Fastest Growing Company.

  • Successfully restaffed and trained a six-member accounting department to support the company's rapid transition from a fee for service business to energy performance contracting.
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  • Restructured the accounting software to improve account allocation accuracy on a system with over 1,000 accounts, 38 departments and over 2,000 projects.
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  • Worked with the CIO to redesign the accounting and project management software to increase the scope and accuracy of financial reporting and restore management's faith in the reliability of the system.
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  • Developed and managed beta testing procedures for software enhancements to ensure data integrity and accuracy of reporting.
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  • Successfully managed the conversion of the newly acquired, Vancouver affiliate's accounting and project management and trained its controller on the new system.
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  • Created a computerized system to allow staff to submit expense claims online from satellite offices across the country, reducing the average reimbursement time from two months to two hours.
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  • Created an online purchase order requisition system to generate purchase orders in two days instead of two weeks.
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  • Wrote payroll software to automatically post payrolls to employee files, prepare journal entries, compute vacation and sick pay accruals, and prepare T-4's, reducing annual labour cost by approximately $20,000.
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  • Designed new cash planning models to electonically report daily cash activity and circulate aged collections lists by client or project manager.
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  • Developed financial account analysis templates to reduce the annual audit fieldwork from two months to two weeks and produce interim financial statements by the 15th of each month.
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    THE LAW SERVICE BUREAU INC., Toronto, Ontario (1986-1994)
Consultant / Vice President

    A twenty member consulting firm providing information management services to law firms, corporate legal departments, and government ministries.

    Client Services

  • Provided interim controllership services for a 10-lawyer firm with special emphasis on management reporting and staff training.
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  • Automated the firm's time and billing process to eliminate duplicative typing of invoices by secretaries and complete the invoicing process by the 3rd of each month instead of the 20th.
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  • Doubled the firm's revenue in one year with no increase in the number of staff. Introduced cash management, budgeting, monthly financial statements, break-even analysis and lawyer time accountability analysis. Reduced unbilled work-in-process from eight months to two months. Helped to negotiate a multi-million dollar line of credit. Hired and trained the firm's present controller.
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  • Developed software to streamline lawyers' production of Affidavits of Documents for court trials.
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  • Wrote software to index off-site storage of closed client files.
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  • Wrote "Adopt a Work of Art" software to administer the launch of a new wing for the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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  • Assisted in the design and writing of a Production Cost Accounting System for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
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    Practice

  • Designed and wrote library cataloguing, space planning and evaluation programs as new service lines of business that tripled the firm's revenues over three years.
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  • Wrote customized time and billing and staff scheduling software to improve client service, increase staff billable time and speed up the monthly billing cycle.
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  • Collaborated in the development of "CaseMate - A Legal Document-Indexing Program.
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    EDUCATION

    Certified Public Accountant, State of Maryland 1980
    B.S. Accounting, University of Maryland 1977
    B.S. Secondary Education/Psychology, Frostburg State University 1970