Peter Smeal

Treasurer, CanLyme

Peter is an accounting and finance professional with more than 40 years experience. He earned his Chartered Accounting designation (now CPA) in Australia and Canada, initially working in public accounting and audits of small to medium businesses before moving on to senior long-term roles with Teknion Corporation and CBRE Canada. 

During his time with Teknion, a global vertically-integrated designer, manufacturer and marketer of office furniture systems, he worked on business processes and implementations of financial systems including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP’s), budget and forecasting, payroll and time attendance, and managing an in-house software development team supporting custom applications such as order entry, shipping and logistics, sales quotations, product catalogues and sales analysis. He was responsible for ensuring the establishment and maintenance of internal controls, business processes, security and fully auditable data integrity for each system. In his corporate accounting role there, he delivered audited financial reports and financial analysis, and managed the corporate budget process and certain Treasury operations.

As a Corporate finance director with CBRE (outsourced facilities and project management division) he managed employees responsible for the daily and full-cycle accounting; integrated Fortune 500 client property contracts onto internal financial systems and processes; provided analysis and financial reporting to line of business leaders; selected financial system upgrades and implementations; merged systems and staff of new acquisitions, and assisted in both internal and external audits and US Sox compliance. 

Peter is now semi-retired.