Omar Salas CPA, CA, MBA

Experience

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  PwC Perú

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2015

  • Promoted based on strong performance to move from PwC Lima to PwC Toronto to work successfully within various challenging industries including agribusiness, pharma, retail, and mining.• Maximized turnaround and response time by providing leadership management, guidance, and support to teams overseeing large initial public offering (IPO) transactions, financial statement and compliance audits, and other projects.• Developed strong international and cultural understanding and knowledge through working with large public and private clients, as well as other PwC offices, around the world in all continents on various projects including audit compliance and audit quality reviews. Show less

  • Senior Manager

    Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  • Staff and Experienced Manager

    Aug 2006 - Jun 2015
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  PwC Canada

  Sept 2015 - Mar 2023

  • Providing high-quality, strong leadership direction and team management by overseeing the development and implementation of various audit projects, large public and private offering transactions, and multi-focus publications, with cross-functional teams, traveling extensively to North America, South America and Europe to ensure completion.• Ensuring proper compliance on various projects through providing strong client relationship management to large, private and public, clients with complex internal controls (Canadian and US requirements) and other related governance requirements, with a focus directed towards the mining industry.• Demonstrating a vast client range experience by working on a variety of projects with client companies in multiple industries at different stages of their business (small businesses to large corporations). • Improving team efficiency and productivity through working alongside, building, managing, and training multiple cross-functional teams around the world, including overseeing the professional development of new team members.• Executing various financial tasks for the organization including preparing and reviewing financial statements, conducting client billing, and reporting for senior management, C-suite executives, audit committees and the Board of Directors. Show less • Increasing margins and efficiencies while improving costs by 30% through overseeing a national project for the organization within the mining and oil/gas sector with the goal of maximizing the usage of digital solutions and developing specific processes to streamline the audit work through automation.• Becoming a member of the writing team for the second largest PwC global publication (one out of 2 Canadians with a total of 10 people on the team globally) to identify pitfalls regarding cybersecurity and issues in the extractive industry. Show less

  • Director

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Experienced Senior Manager

    Aug 2016 - Jul 2021

  • Experienced Manager

    Sept 2015 - Jul 2016
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  Kinross Gold Corporation

  Feb 2018 - Nov 2018

  Director of Corporate Accounting (secondment from PwC)

  • Promoted to a new role through completing a 10-month client secondment from PwC Canada to one of the leading gold companies (top 10 gold mining producer) in the world.• Improved the accounts payable process turnaround time and increased efficiencies through managing a team of 20 people with 4 direct reports to develop and supported the assessment and implementation of digital technologies. • Executed various financial tasks for the organization including overseeing the accounts payable, consolidation process, payroll and overseeing the finance budget process reporting to the VP Finance and CFO. Show less

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  EY

  Apr 2023 - now

  • Partner

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Associate Partner

    Apr 2023 - Dec 2023