Where I've worked
Financial Accounting Co-op
Hove Street Properties·Toronto, Canada·May 2026 – Present
Hove Street Properties is a privately owned and controlled real estate group, providing a full spectrum of investment, asset, property management and construction services for over 200 properties in North America.
200+ properties
North America
On-site
- Resolved 600+ finance, operations and access incidents with an average resolution time under 4 hours, exceeding SLA targets by 92%.
- Automated dormant accounts review process with Python, eliminating 99.96% of manual work and preparing audit-ready data for external auditors.
- Led bi-weekly Internal Audit meetings to present due diligence on IFS segregation-of-duties conflicts, resolving 100+ SOD issues.
- Authored IFS User Access guide, formalized into a centrally controlled WI and adopted as the company's IFS access workflow.
- Reconfigured GL accounts in IFS to align with French GAAP (Combination Rules and Tax Codes).
- Shipped a RESTful Flask-based reservation system; £2,000+ annual savings, 1,700+ week-one bookings, 30,000+ month-one visits.
- Implemented role-based authentication with AES-encrypted PII, Argon2 hashing, CSRF protection, CSP, and custom rate limiting.
- Developed tamper-proof audit logs with SQLite triggers to ensure GDPR compliance, data integrity and auditability.
- Led user acceptance and penetration testing, documenting vulnerabilities and validating fixes to meet business and compliance requirements.
- Launched a secure B2B e-commerce site (Shopify, Liquid, JS) with a React marketing site, driving 6.1k+ verified sessions, 65% returning customers, and 58.4% referral-driven sales.
- Implemented Algolia to reduce multilingual search errors, deployed custom JS middleware for dynamic collection remapping.
- Deployed an internal labelling platform with one-click translation, banned E‑number flagging, allergen detection, barcode generation, and HTML-to-PDF export — cutting creation time by 80%+ and ensuring EU/UK FSA compliance.
- Shipped customer-facing cataloguing software using Flask and Python, reducing production time by over 50%.
- Managed RTI payroll and GL entries in Sage50 and Payroo. Handled daily journal entries and stock checks across SKUs in Excel.
Website Developer
Cmart Oriental Foods·Reading, United Kingdom·May 2020 – July 2023
Built and maintained a Shopify storefront over 3+ years (now decommissioned), launched during COVID-19 to support local food access and continuity of business operations, generating £100k+ in total sales.
£100k+ sales
Shopify
COVID-19 launch