Mike Nicholson Email & Phone Number

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Assisted with the financial operations for a number of high-profile concerts and live events, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and transparency in financial transactions• Prepared event settlements, ensuring accurate and timely payments to promoters, and vendors• Collaborated with event promoters, production teams, Ticketmaster, and vendors to pull together all financial information to be included in event settlements• Acting point of contact for show accounting for all assigned shows • Preparing monthly financial statements, account reconciliations, and monitoring the budget with variance analysis and forecasting• Assist in the preparation of the next fiscal operating budget• Preparing and distributing internal venue event results (P&L) for distribution to management• Small event management: invoicing & collection on venue’s smaller scale events• Allocate venue event labour to the appropriate business entity • Record and reconcile live entertainment, Canucks, & Warriors ticket revenues • Preparing and distributing weekly cash flow report to management • Manage intercompany reconciliations• Preparing year end audit working papers• Capital asset/project management and reporting• Concur expense reporting: Monitor and approve all submitted expense reports

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

• Monthly financial reporting, financial statement preparation • Monthly budget reporting and annual budget forecasting • Maintaining monthly working papers • Donor reporting • Reporting on BCIT Alumni store sales • New ERP system implementation • AP invoice entry and coordinating payments • AR invoice entry and coordinating collections• Prepping monthly journal entries

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsible for cash management, cash forecasting and weekly cash reporting for all of our 15 production companies • Coordinated foreign currency trades and intercompany billings to help meet current cash needs • Managed production cost reports which involved regular meetings with line producers to communicate costs incurred on their show and ensured their show’s costs are staying on budget• Liaised with line producers to ensure production milestones for their show have been met, subsequently issuing AR invoices for those milestones to clients, following up with clients on any outstanding payments• Ensured all capital purchases were properly accounted for and adhered to our capital budget policy • Generated monthly capital budget reports for management review, allowing budget holders to track their current spend against what was budgeted to make timely decisions on future purchases• Reviewed all POs, corporate accounts payable invoices, payments, bank reconciliations, GST returns, WCB filings, credit card reports, and other monthly task from our junior accountants • Processed CAD & US payroll in a company of 600+ employees distributed among 15 separate production companies• Managed a high volume of onboarding/offboarding employees into ADP each pay period • Helped administer changes to employee benefits in ADP and performed regular benefit reconciliations

North Vancouver

• Systems specialist for SAP• Provide SAP support for all functional areas of ICBC finance• Strong knowledge of accounting ERP systems was required to troubleshoot, analyze any problems in SAP • Create solutions/fixes/temporary workarounds for these issues • Communicate fixes/workarounds to our finance teams • Effectively prioritized many issues and worked each fix into our implementation schedule • Implemented regular SAP software patches and applied regression testing to each effected area to ensure uninterrupted service

Coquitlam

• Coordinate AP invoice approvals, ensure accurate invoice entry, expense coding, & timely payments to our Vendors• Prepare AR invoices and manage cash collection with our corporate accounts receivable • Managed confidential HR documents, employee health plans, processed the company payroll• Had a prominent role in developing more streamlined payroll salary & benefits reporting; helped implement and integrate our new leave management system with our payroll software• Managed petty cash and administered our corporate credit cards. Performed reconciliations for both• Experience dealing with CRA, filing GST Returns, reporting monthly ITC & revenue• Responsible for preparing corporate month-end working papers in a timely, efficient manner to meet our month-end closing deadlines. This includes B/S and P&L reconciliations, fixed asset & depreciation schedules• Developed budget variance analysis reporting to aid in meeting with budget holders on a monthly basis to discuss their monthly budget results, and help keep them on target with their annual budget• Streamlined and made our processes more effective for preparing our monthly preliminary results, financial statements, and departmental budget variance reports• Aid in preparing our financial notes for our financial statements• Coordinated with Provincial Treasury in managing millions of dollars to refinance our short and long term debt, managed our daily cash balances, and prepared TI Corp’s monthly cash forecast reports for our CFO

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Effectively managed three separate business units down to net revenue - including review of contracts, project setup into our ERP system, analysis of project estimates and profitability, invoicing, recognizing revenue according to a project’s percent complete, and preforming monthly revenue & cost reconciliations • Maintained key financial reports on a weekly basis by updating revenue recognition schedules and new sales entries that were relied upon by senior finance management • Performed monthly variance analysis of actual revenue/costs against the budgeted revenue/costs• Frequently required to communicate financial information effectively to people with non-finance backgrounds• Scheduled and organized monthly meetings with account managers to maintain accurate records of ongoing projects• Helped organize and migrate all existing data from our old ERP system to our new ERP system • Troubleshooted and helped test our new ERP system to perform the same functionality as our old one in order to provide a seamless transition to our new system

• Developed strategies to recover payments from delinquent customers for overdue invoices and improved the cash flow of our company• Devised and prepared cash forecast reports for upper management using estimated receivables and prepayments on a weekly basis. The V.P. of Finance relied heavily on this information to approve purchases and payables • Constructed sales reports that provided key consolidated revenue data to senior & upper management on a weekly basis• Reviewed and assessed customer’s credit history with Savox to increase or decrease the customer’s high credit limit• Reviewed and prepared month-end reports & working papers for our audit records• Managed the company’s HR documents, employer health plans, and processed the company payroll• Effectively coordinated with production to ship prepaid orders in a timely matter• Posted transactions into our ERP system, reconciled subledgers with the general ledger, & reconciled multi-currency intercompany accounts• In charge of coordinating the transportation of all our confidential accounting records to a permanent off-site storage center

North Vancouver

• Awarded a 2008 team spirit award (equivalent to employee of the month) by exemplifying good teamwork, leadership and hard work as voted by management• Contributed to one of the best internal audit score our department has achieved • Decreased the amount of missing labels to only six out of 12,000 labels in my entire department due to strong attention to detail• Trained employees to do new jobs which improved the efficiency of operations• Required problem solving skills to enhance customer’s shopping experience

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting

Commerce