PREVOIRA

Matt is a high-tech finance and operations executive, team builder and turnaround strategist with extensive experience serving as the Finance lead for multi-million to billion-dollar divisions at start-ups and global technology companies such as Busbud, Wish, Uber, Revinate and Expedia Group (including Hotwire). He delivers financial and operational excellence by combining financial, business and interpersonal acumen, optimizing financial management structures, policies and processes to maximize efficiency and profitability. Matt is also an accomplished author and speaker in the FP&A community.

His expertise spans FP&A and strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, B2B SaaS and B2C ecommerce & marketplaces, financial modeling, systems implementation, business transformation and change management, and fundraising and capital management. Matt holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business (Western University) and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo, and is fluent in French.

Key contributions include:

• Busbud
  • Centralized finance teams across 12 entities in 10 countries on 4 continents (~20 HC), standardizing financial controls, a new 8-day consolidated close and consistent management reporting.
  • Hired key senior accounting leaders and built a brand-new FP&A team focused on forecasting, performance management and business partnership while driving 60%+ YoY global revenue growth.
  • Closed an acquisition in South Africa in partnership with Corporate Development, while raising $28M CAD in Series D convertible notes.
  • Migrated banking operations across all entities globally to a single banking platform to streamline operations.
  • Led the Online Marketing team (4 HC) for 4 months, developing performance reporting on key drivers and metrics to power near triple-digit growth across low- and high-cost channels.
• Wish
  • Led internal financial business partnering for entire company including pricing, logistics, customer experience, fraud, infrastructure, supply management, payments, incentives, and budgeting for headcount & vendor spend.
  • Led implementation of first-ever FP&A planning system at Wish (Planful) to integrate internal operational data, financial data (NetSuite) & headcount (Workday) to provide the right granularity to evaluate business performance.
  • Built team from 1 analyst to 8 FTE (7 managers) over a span of 8 months to fill significant gaps in financial processes & systems, country-based forecasting, spend management, and business case modelling.
• Uber
  • Led development of 2020 plan delivering $250M in annualized savings, and established first-ever internal forecast review process for CommOps.
  • Partnered with senior executives, grew staff from 5 to 14 FTEs, increased team from 2 managers and 3 associates to 4 managers and 10 associates, and in only 7 months strengthened efficiency across APAC, EMEA, LATAM and US.
  • Drove the financial analysis for COVID projections which led to reduction of 40% across 10K global CommOps staff and an extra $250M in annualized cost savings.
  • Developed vendor management invoicing and accruals system which improved cost visibility and auditability.
• Revinate
  • Led fundraising efforts and in turn successfully closed $15M Series D venture debt from Horizon Capital.
  • Developed top performing finance and business operations team with a director, senior manager, 3 analysts and 4 accountants to fulfill FP&A, accounting and billing, treasury, equity, Dealdesk, sales planning and operations activities all of which led to high achieving workplace.
  • Restructured aged Salesforce installation, transitioned to Netsuite from FinancialForce, and created outsourced collections team to tackle unattended accounts which reduced DSO +50% YoY.
• Expedia Group
  • Led the FP&A teams for 5 different brands globally over 4.5 years, including interim CFO of Hotwire in 2015.
  • Negotiated the P&L budgets across each of the brands in the range of $100-$300M in revenue to optimize EBITDA.
  • In each brand, overhauled financial management by eliminating gaps in processes, instituting corporate reporting standards and implementing financial systems to improve accuracy, quality and timely production of deliverables.