DAMIAN BARTON

Experience

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  Bombardier Inc.

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  Various Administrative Roles

  Responsible for maintaining customer contract files, collection of sold and unpaid items and annual credit reviews.

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  Bombardier Inc.

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1998

  Credit Analyst

  Analyze and interpret financial statements, asset quality, industry data and management qualifications to produce recommendations for management review.

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  Bombardier Inc.

  Jan 1999 - Jan 1999

  Manager, Portfolio Risk

  Assessment of credit and asset risk at the portfolio level.

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  Bombardier Aerospace

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2013

  Reporting to Chief Financial Officer, manage a multi-disciplinary team of 60 people and a budget of $6.5M across four distinct departments to include Accounts Receivable ($185M portfolio and 2,500 customers) with $5M credit authority, responsibility for Credit Policy and authority over establishing allowance for doubtful accounts, Accounts Payable ($5B annually), Corporate Travel & Expense Management ($125M annual budget) and Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (358 processes in scope). Reporting to Vice President, Structured Finance, responsible to negotiate, document and administer the company's captive financing portfolio of commercial aircraft loans/leases to include a bridge financing facility up to $1B and a junior loan portfolio up to $500M. Direct management responsibility for up to 8 people. Reporting to Vice President, Contracts & Operations, accountable for the negotiation of financing agreements and administration of signed contracts across a diverse portfolio of underlying assets. Direct management responsibility for up to 8 people. Manage the back office for a $750M lease/loan portfolio including funding, booking, invoicing, cash application, computing payoff amounts, contract dispositions and nightly/monthly batch processing. Direct management responsibility for up to 6 people.

  • Director, Financial Sevices & Internal Control

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2013

  • Director, Aircraft Financing & Reporting

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2010

  • Manager, Contracts

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  • Manager, Operations

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001
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  National Life Group

  Jun 2014 - now

  Defined and proactively supported large, complex cross functional program to grow core business through a differentiated service experience. Overall responsibility for strategy development, scoping, planning, execution, budget/resource management, risk management, governance and reporting from initiation through implementation of all work streams. Interacted at all levels of the organization to deliver a program with significant change management implications involving new ways of working, reskilling for new and evolved roles, new technology and evolving organizational design. Show less Defined target operating model required to deliver on enterprise growth strategy with an emphasis on relationship-based distribution model. Applied strategic thinking principles to architect a scalable service delivery model providing next level of care to agents throughout the business acquisition process differentiating National Life Group in the marketplace. Initiated cross functional change driving value creation by shifting the paradigm from a transaction mindset to customer centric mindset. Show less

  • VP - Business Architecture & Transformation

    Jan 2022 - now

  • AVP - Business Architecture

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  • AVP - New Business Modernization

    Oct 2018 - Jan 2020

  • AVP - Contracting & Licensing, Commissions & Asset Recovery

    Jul 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Director, Contracting & Licensing

    Jun 2014 - Jun 2017