Marlon Nurse

Experience

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2017

  Senior Associate (Audit and Consulting)

  • Supervised and coordinated projects for external auditors and examiner evaluations to identify and assess business controls, risks, process gaps and workflow inefficiencies. • Proactively created a report-generating system that translates a large insurance client's customer/claims data into usable weekly reports for the forensic audit team and the judicial managers, helping management to make important decisions faster and reduced processing time by 99.7%. • Articulated audit findings, risks and detailed recommendations to upper management. • Produced financial statements, performed compliance audits, tested operational controls and developed audit programs. • Assisted in the internal audit of the Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) application and environment testing of a large Canadian Gold Company and provided insightful recommendations for improvements. • Completed accounting and financial reporting (e.g. accounts payables, balance sheet reconciliations, depreciation schedules). • Developed IT solutions using MS Access, MS Excel and VBA for data analysis and journal entry generation, contributing to streamlined processes, increased accuracy, lowered costs and reduced processing time. • Consistently commended by peers and clients for quickly learning and mastering proprietary applications, demonstrating problem solving/programming abilities and effectively communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences; considered the dependable resource for IT-audit solutions. Show less

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  Apollo Applied Research Inc

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2023

  Finance and Business Analyst

  • Worked on a dynamic forecast model which included revenue, expenses and high-level trends in the business. • Built various dashboards on different customer segments and highlighting revenue, margin and profitability for each.• Proactively liaised with business partners to create the business analytics function translating business needs to technical specifications that help determine key performance and key risk indicators. • Sift and analyze large amounts of data from multiple angles, looking for variances, trends and to gain insight to generate, develop, and maintain regular and ad-hoc reports, dashboards, and visualizations to monitor and analyze performance to support business objectives and decision making. • Evaluate the data quality and accuracy with internal stakeholders as needed. • Utilize tools such as Microsoft Excel to create and store multidimensional data sets. • Translate technical data findings and insights to internal team members in a professional, concise, and easy-to-understand way. • Increase productivity by developing automated accounting applications using VBA and Power Query. • Responsible for account reconciliations, journal entry postings, maintaining accounts payable and accounts receivables and analyzing general ledger accounts.• Set-up new accounts in QuickBooks for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables.• Analyze and validate monthly revenue lists.• Assist Controller in preparation of month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting.• Review revenue and expense budgets against actual to ensure accuracy.• Responsible for bookkeeping (incl. account reconciliations, journal entry postings, maintaining accounts payable and accounts receivables and analyzing general ledger accounts in QuickBooks). Show less

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  Metro Supply Chain

  Mar 2023 - now

  Financial Analyst

  • Leading the forecasting, budgeting, and reporting responsibilities for the Transportation business unit which comprises high revenues and associated operating expenses and capital expenses • Liaising with business partners including the general managers of various locations to gather inputs for operating expenses and working with Sales VPs to understand the pipeline for expected revenue• Presenting the annual budget to the operational leadership team and ensuring their understanding of financial risks and opportunities• Analyzing results and clearly communicating key drivers of variances to prior year and plan numbers in monthly presentations to various department leads • Spearheading a profitability analyses which determined a new break-even point for specific customer groups, allowing upper management to make more informed strategic decisions• Accurately develop and compile the documentation, and implementation of effective controls, policies, and procedures.• Partner with operations to ensure all revenue and costs are accurately recorded by division and by site.• Act as the focal person for monthly regional result reviews with Operation Management.• Assist in the financial performance growth through in-depth analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends using Power BI and Power Query.• Assist in the month end closing process, ensuring month end entries are processed accurately and on a timely basis.• Support the Finance team as coverage on tasks during system migrations and implementations.• Assist in the reconciliations between various billing systems and the ERP system to ensure data integrity.• Participate in special projects to improve process efficiency and performance. Show less