Eric Nielsen
Experienced leader and financial executive with proven results impacting financial acuity.
Eric is a results-oriented, creative problem solver with a solid financial background in both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, spanning over 40 years. His current major areas of proficiency are Fund Accounting for Charities and Not for Profit organizations, consolidations, amalgamations, and merger and acquisitions.
Client Services
- Interim contract CFO roles
- New Accounting System Implementations
- Amalgamations, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Banking and Cash Management
- Investment Portfolios
- Consolidations
- Charities / Not for Profit – Fund or deferred method
Prior Experience
Charities & Not-for-Profits:
- Interim VP Finance and Operations (CFO) – Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada/Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada
- Director of Finance, Administration and Human Resources (CFO) – Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Director of Finance (CFO) – Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada
- Interim Director of Finance (CFO) – Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
- Interim Director of Finance (CFO) – Leukemia Research Fund of Canada
Prior Experience – CCPC’s and Publicly Traded Corporations:
- Controller – PC Docs Group International – (TSE & Nasdaq)
- Controller (CFO) – Corporate Micro Business Systems
- Controller (CFO) – MicroAge Canada Limited
- Chief Accountant – Thomson Newspapers Limited
- Chief Accountant – Lincoln Electric Company of Canada Limited
Qualifications
- Accounting and Finance Diploma – Seneca College
- Board Member, Treasurer – Toronto North Support Services
- Finance and Audit Committee – Toronto North Support Services