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An affiliate of CGA Canada, the national body representing more than 71,000 CGAs and students, the Certified General Accountants Ontario is a self-governing body, which grants the exclusive right to the CGA designation and controls the professional standards, conduct and discipline of its approximately 19,000 members and 9,000 students in the province of Ontario.
The CGA designation is achieved by successfully completing assignments and national examinations, passing a comprehensive final examination on all aspects of the program, fulfilling practical work experience requirements of the CGA program of professional studies, and meeting a university degree requirement. The program’s flexibility enables individuals from a variety of academic backgrounds to fulfill their need to succeed.
Katherine Swick, CGA
Business Development Manager
My name is Katherine Swick, CGA and I am the new business development manager for the Certified General Accountants of Ontario responsible for the Golden Horseshoe region. I have a degree from the University of Western Ontario and I received my CGA designation in 2006. I was previously employed in the sports and entertainment industry as senior accountant with the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.
CGA Ontario is looking to create a strong relationship with the accounting society at the Schulich School of Business academically, socially and through networking opportunities. Please do not hesitate to contact me at kswick@cga-ontario.org if you have any questions about the CGA designation.
http://www.cga-ontario.org
Robert (Rob) Fotheringham, CGA
The senior vice-president of trading at TSX Markets, Rob Fotheringham is a champion of the CGA designation who has appeared in numerous advertising, marketing and outreach initiatives on behalf of CGA Ontario.
Admitted to membership in 1993, Rob began his career with the National Bank of Canada. He then served as an accounting supervisor with the Hamilton Convention Centre, before rising to the position of director and senior portfolio manager at the Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth. In 1997, Rob joined the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), where he served as vice-president, derivative and quantitative investments. Rob also sat as a senior member of OMERS’ investment management committee and global tactical asset allocation committee.
Rob joined the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2005. He is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Depository for Securities and serves as a member of their audit/risk committee. A strong proponent of lifelong learning, he is currently enrolled in the master of business administration program (MBA) at Laurentian University, and continues to promote the CGA program to aspiring accounting and finance professionals across Ontario, by appearing in the CGA Champions advertising campaign and online at nameyourneed.org.
An investment, strategy and risk management expert, and a member of the CEO advisory group, Rob Fotheringham is passionate about the promotion of the CGA designation, and is committed to building equity in the CGA brand through his experience and contacts within the investment and finance community.
“I consider my CGA designation to be one of my most valuable professional assets. This designation provided me with a solid foundation for the development of both technical and management skills. Not only did the CGA program position me to become an expert in accounting, but also in all facets of financial analysis and business management. Skills required for successful completion of the CGA program are ones that also assist in the development of profitable trading and management decisions.
The commitment and determination needed to complete the CGA program are recognized by participants, peers and employers alike.
My network of CGA colleagues met through the educational program, professional development seminars and CGA Ontario-sponsored continuing education opportunities remains of immense benefit to me.
The decision to pursue the CGA designation has returned significant dividends, personally, and positioned me to add value to my clients, colleagues and employers.”
News Link: Schulich, winners of the 2008 CGA Accounting Contest
http://netvalue.cga-ontario.org/apr09/buildingthebrand.htm
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Certified Management Accountants (CMAs) are holistic, big picture thinkers who do more
than just measure value, they create it. With a rich blend of business expertise solidly
grounded in strategy, management and accounting, CMAs take on today’s business
challenges, applying creative ideas to position organizations for success. CMAs provide
leadership, innovation and an integrating perspective to organizational decision-making in
businesses of all sizes and in all sectors of Ontario’s economy.
Why should I pursue the CMA Designation?
The CMA designation opens the door to a competitive income, a broad range of career opportunities and exciting workplace challenges. CMAs provide employers with the ideal balance of three essential and interdependent business disciplines: strategy, management and accounting. This powerful combination of skills defines the CMA’s unique value to an organization and makes the CMA the designation of choice! CMAs are able to apply contemporary and emerging best practices in a wide array of business functions, including accounting and finance, sales and marketing, operations, strategic planning and analysis, information technology and human resources. They bring a strong market focus to strategic management and resource deployment, synthesizing and analyzing financial and non-financial information to develop total business solutions, identify new market opportunities, and maximize shareholder value.
Your Path to Becoming a CMA
The CMA understands the business formula for delivering value to the customer, arriving at strategies for identifying, developing, marketing and evaluating a product or service throughout its entire life cycle. The CMA is able to assess all aspects of a product or service: its quality, performance, cost, and responsiveness to customer needs and expectations. The CMA profession draws equally from the disciplines of strategy, management and accounting. Supported by six functional and four enabling competencies: CMAs do more than measure value – they create it. The CMA Competency Map identifies the competencies CMAs acquire, hone and ultimately master over the course of their careers to perform in the CMA territory. This philosophy forms the foundation upon which the CMA accreditation process has been designed.
For more information, contact:
Lori Dalton
Regional Director of Marketing
& Communications – GTA East
CMA Ontario
416-432-9629
ldalton@cma-ontario.org
www.cma-ontario.org
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Deloitte is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, financial advisory and enterprise risk services to a wide range of Canadian and international clients. We have more than 7,600 talented people in 56 offices dedicated to helping our clients excel.
Take a close look and discover the truth about Deloitte – how we think, how we’re different.
Your career is important to you. It’s important to us, too. If the time is right for you to join our team with its culture of collaboration and excellence, we’d like to know more about you.
Our firm offers individuals interested in obtaining their CA designation many career opportunities within our different functional areas;
Our Audit, Tax, Enterprise Risk, and Financial Advisory services have opportunities for campus hires.
Within each of our service areas you’ll work with key team members to develop an understanding of the business and economic environment in which our clients operate. You will be helping organizations of all sizes perform better- Going beyond the numbers- Turning problems into opportunities for our clients.
Key facts about Deloitte:
- We are Canada’s largest professional services firm, with almost 8,000 professionals in Canada in over 57 offices
- One of Canada’s Best 50 Employers for 2009
- We serve half of the world’s largest companies
- Deloitte Canada spends about $25 million per year on training & development for its professionals
- More than 95% of our summer students return to the firm for full-time positions
Sou Choi
Talent Acquisition
Telephone: 416 874 3202
E-mail: souchoi@deloitte.ca
Sou Choi is a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at Deloitte. She leads GTA Campus Recruitment activities for co-op, summer and full-time positions at Schulich, the University of Toronto (UTSG, UTSC & UTM), Atkinson and Ryerson. Deloitte offers career opportunities in Audit, Tax, Enterprise Risk Services and Financial Advisory.
Sou completed her B.B.A. and C.H.R.M. at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Deloitte, she spent four years leading campus recruitment and professional development for an international law firm in Toronto. Also, for two years Sou worked in Employer Relations and Marketing, University of Toronto Career Centre where she facilitated on-campus recruitment activities for all disciplines.
Shaila Mehta
Partner
Telephone: 416 643 8447
E-mail: shaimehta@deloitte.ca
Shaila Mehta is a Partner in Deloitte’s Assurance & Advisory practice. Throughout her career, she has developed over 15 years of experience in providing audit and advisory services to clients. Her focus is in the manufacturing industry and she has served a number of clients in the automotive industry. Throughout her career, Shaila has served large and mid-sized public and private companies. She has significant experience in Canadian and US GAAP, as well as IFRS reporting. In addition to her client responsibilities, Shaila is the partner in charge for Learning and Growth for all audit practitioners located in the GTA and is a Board member of the United Way of Peel.
Bessy Triantafyllos, CA, MTax
Telephone: (416) 874-4425
Email: btriantafyllos@deloitte.ca
Bessy has 7 years experience in public accounting with Deloitte & Touche and has worked extensively in the area of corporate and personal taxation. She has advised a number of owner-managed enterprises as well as certain public corporations. Bessy specializes in advising clients within the real estate industry as well as other owner-managed clients.
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Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 130,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve potential.
For more information, please visit ey.com/ca.
Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.
The Ernst & Young Recruiting Team:
We are looking forward to meeting all of you during the recruiting season!
Leigh Carter,
Lead Campus Recruiter - Canada
Email: leigh.carter@ca.ey.com
I started in the audit practice at EY back in the fall of 2000 after graduating from Ivey at the University of Western Ontario. After four years auditing in our Technology, Communications and Entertainment group (TCE) I was promoted to audit manager. At this point I took an eight-month leave of absence from work and moved out to Whistler, B.C. I took full advantage of what Whistler had to offer: skiing, golfing, hiking, and fishing. However, the whole time I was thinking about my next career path move. The great thing about EY is that there are lots of opportunities for career movement within the firm. Opportunities include transferring to another service line such as Tax or Corporate Finance, or even transferring to another office in another country. When I returned from Whistler, I decided to join the Human Resources group as a manager in recruiting. After having a baby boy named Griffin last year, I have returned to take on the role of the Lead Recruiter for Ernst & Young in Canada. So, that is my EY story thus far… and I know there are still a few more chapters left to unfold for me here at Ernst & Young!
Kelly Millar,
Campus Recruiter - Central Canada
Email: kelly.j.millar@ca.ey.com
My name is Kelly Millar and I am the Campus Recruiter for Central Canada at Ernst & Young. So how did I get here? I started out in our Downtown Toronto office as a summer intern in our HR group after graduating from the University of Western Ontario. I always enjoyed helping out with recruiting events as an intern, so when an opportunity came up in 2006 to work 100% for campus recruiting, I jumped at the chance! So lucky me- I get to meet many of you when I come out to visit you at Schulich. I love working here because I get to organize and attend all of our great summer intern events, such as a wine tasting, golf lessons, Blue Jays games, numerous nights out on the town, as well as our annual intern conference in Florida.
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About the Firm
Did you know? KPMG stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler.
Did you know? KPMG is part of KPMG International, a global network of professional firms that operate in 144 countries and have more than 137,000 professionals working around the world.
Did you know? KPMG offers a large variety of professional development opportunities, including a chance to participate in Audit I training. This gives newly hired full-time employees the chance to represent KPMG somewhere around the globe in a 5-day Audit training course with new hires from around the world. This year, the training takes place in Italy—talk about expanding your network!
Did you know? KPMG consistently wins employer of choice awards, including Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top 50 Dream Employers, and Canada’s Top 10 Family Friendly Workplaces.
Representative Profiles:
Jessica Hutcheson, Senior Coordinator, Campus Recruitment, GTA
Jessica joined KPMG and the Campus team in the summer of 2009. In May of 2007, she joined Accenture to work in their Management Consulting workforce and was involved in all things “people-related” on a number of client engagements. In the summer of 2008, she moved to the Rotman School of Management to join their career centre team and was involved in the entire end-to-end campus recruitment process.
Jessica obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Ryerson University in their new Arts and Contemporary Studies program, with a focus on Diversity and Equity and a minor in Human Resources. She continues to work towards her CHRP designation part-time.
When she isn’t working, Jessica loves to read, write, dance, and volunteer with Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Toronto.
For more information on KPMG, please visit http://www.kpmg.ca/en/careers/campus/.
Our Campus Ambassadors are a great way to learn about KPMG on campus. These ambassadors are your friends and classmates that have done a summer internship or a co-op term with us. Contact an Ambassador at your school and ask them about their Perfect Fit. http://www.kpmg.ca/en/careers/campus/campus_ambassadors.html.
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Krista Mooney, CA
Downtown Toronto Office
PricewaterhouseCoopers GTA Campus Recruitment Manager
Hello Everyone!
My name is Krista Mooney and it is a pleasure to introduce myself as the GTA Campus Recruitment Manager for the Audit and Assurance Group (AAG) at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). I began my career with PwC in 2002 as a summer student in the Downtown Toronto office, and joined full time in 2003 upon my graduation from Queen’s University Commerce. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight to you, by reference to our Take the Lead campaign, some of the things that make PwC a great place to work!
Vision – Where do you want to go? Responsible leadership in business and the community.
PwC has been a prominent leader in the accounting industry, with over 100 years of doing business in Canada. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of the accounting profession and ensuring its integrity. Many of the partners and staff within our firm have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the accounting profession. Equally as important to business leadership is the role we play in the community. In 2004, the PwC Canada Foundation (Foundation) was initiated as a way to make a positive, lasting impression in the community. The Foundation gives all employees an opportunity to participate in team volunteering events, such as assisting with building homes for low income families and reading books to children in hospitals. Last year, my colleagues and I participated in a volunteer event at a women’s shelter. Having an opportunity to personally touch the lives of these women left us with an incredible sense of pride and accomplishment. In addition to these volunteer activities, the Foundation also recognizes outstanding employee volunteer efforts by providing leadership grants to the community organizations that our employees volunteer with.
Ability – What does work mean to you? Continuous training and ongoing learning through experience.
One of the hallmarks of PwC is the training we provide. Upon joining PwC, new recruits attend a two week orientation program called Assurance 1 where they participate in an audit simulation. The goal of Assurance 1 is to equip new staff with the skills necessary to be successful in their first year at PwC. In addition, new staff receive extensive training for the CKE, SOA and UFE exams to ensure that they have the knowledge and resource material necessary to succeed on these exams. However, training does not end here because at PwC learning is a continuous experience. All staff leading up to the manager level attend regular development team meetings where they discuss relevant audit concepts in small groups. All practice staff, including partners, attend ongoing industry specific training. In addition, leadership training programs such as Genesis Park bring together top performers from different countries, staff levels and lines of service to address business-related issues currently affecting our profession and our firm. In addition to this classroom training, PwC believes that some of the best training is obtained through practical experience. As such, PwC actively supports employees who are interested in working in other parts of the world through our EPIC (Early PwC International Challenge) Program. Short-term assignments, such as the one I look part in to New York, usually take place for several months at a time, while long-term assignments can be anywhere in the range of two to three years. In the past, PwC employees have enjoyed work experiences all over the world, including the United States, Russia, South Africa, Colombia, Bermuda, England and Australia, to name just a few!
PwC is committed to providing expert client services. Our broad client base, ranging from Financial Post 500 multinational corporations to growing private companies, is evidence of the depth of experience within our practice and the ability of our staff to provide services to all type of organizations, small and large. This commitment to our clients also extends to our people. PwC is committed to the development of its people and to establishing lifelong relationships with all employees. Without the right people, providing excellent client service becomes next to impossible. All new staff members are paired with a coach, who is available to answer the questions they may have, act on their behalf during our annual performance review process and to be their mentor at the firm. This mentoring continues at all stages of one’s career, from Associate level to Partner. The firm is also focused on ensuring that all employees achieve a balance between work and their personal life. Initiatives such as our summer time off program (STOP) and flexible Fridays throughout the summer give employees a chance to travel and take additional time off to pursue personal interests.
Relationships – Who do you want to be? Empowerment of employees and a culture of collaboration.
This attribute is largely a function of the above three. At PwC, we foster a culture of collaboration. Examples of this include close knit audit teams, the many social events within the firm, the United Way campaign, local office environmental committees and team volunteering activities. These initiatives aim to bring employees together and empower them to contribute to and participate in team success.
I hope you have found this article to be informative and I look forward to meeting you at the information session and the various other recruiting events this fall!
Pamela Papadopoulos
GTA Campus Recruitment Senior
My name is Pamela Papadopoulos and it is a pleasure to introduce myself as the GTA Campus Recruitment Senior for the Audit and Assurance Group (AAG) at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). I began my career with PwC in the fall of 2005 upon my graduation from the Schulich School of Business. I successfully passed the Uniform Final Examination (UFE) in 2007 and obtained my CA designation in 2008. Since joining the firm, I have worked on clients mainly within our Investment Management practice and for the past two years, I have been the lead senior on one of the largest mutual fund engagements in our downtown office. Last year, I worked with the recruiting department for six months and assisted them with the rollout of our new recruitment campaign, Take the Lead. I have also taken advantage of the many extracurricular opportunities within PwC. I currently co-chair PwC Fit! - a committee that promotes health and wellness within PwC. I am also a representative for my staff level on the Personal Advisory Committee (PAC) that meets regularly to discuss the experiences of individuals at the senior level. Outside of work, I am very involved in volunteer activities, and I currently sit as a board member for SKETCH, a non-profit initiative for at-risk and homeless youths. I have had an enriching and rewarding career with PwC thus far and I am very excited to discuss my experiences with you in more detail this upcoming fall!