David Gilchrist

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ABOUT DAVID GILCHRIST

A proven dynamic leader who is results and deadline driven. An experienced designated accounting professional with extensive Oil Sand and InSitu Oil and Gas experience, Utilities industry and Regulatory experience, as well as Investment Banking exposure. Key strengths include critical strategic thinking, corporate and operational financial / management reporting, leading budget and long-range business planning processes, capital management, regulated power industry knowledge, cost management and excellent communication and relationship building skills at all organizational levels. My skills are further punctuated by honesty, integrity, a strong work ethic and a positive attitude. Extensive experience in the following areas: • Exceptionally strong leadership, team building and relationship building skills, mentoring experience, and working well with all levels from front line contributors to Senior and Executive VPs;• Lead Finance portion on significant InSitu growth projects and maintenance Turnaround projects;• Managing consolidation, reporting and variance analysis of monthly and quarterly results and providing accounting treatment and policy guidance;• Coordination and leading Budgeting and Business Planning (Managed budgets in excess of $1.5B); • Proactive cost management and process re-engineering experience, driving cost-conscious mindsets;• Managing Operations, Maintenance and Functional Finance teams and stakeholders; • Corporate Accounting, Treasury Accounting, International Finance, Internal Reporting, Business Process / Continuous Improvement focus and project work;• Full cycle asset management from project setup to asset useful life review and retirement;• SAP/BW/BI, PowerBI, Adaptive Insights and Workday system in-depth experience with analysis, reporting, project systems and training / implementation; • Five years Fly-in Fly-out site-based experience (InSitu Firebag - Suncor), managing all finance related functions.