Finance in Canadian companies is evolving rapidly from a focus on transaction processing to the role of value-producing business partner. Enabling digital technology not only increases value through higher productivity and reduced costs, it also enables business strategy.

Mike Ballestrin

EY Canada Finance Consulting Leader

Enthusiastic transformation consultant. Voracious reader. Avid traveller. Involuntarily quotes lines from his favourite movies, triggering eyerolls from his wife and kids.

As a partner in our Business Consulting practice, Mike works with clients in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) and adjacent sectors on high-impact initiatives to build long-term value.

With EY Canada for over two decades, Mike has worked with executives and C-suite stakeholders to transform business processes by establishing transformation strategies through implementation of target operating models, digital automation, and enterprise intelligence and performance management solutions.

He was EY's Global Consulting TMT Resident for two years, focused on setting the sector solutions strategy, building assets and forging new and strengthening existing alliance relationships.

Mike holds a BComm (Honours) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and is a designated CPA, CA.

How Mike is building a better working world

“Digitization is not something to be feared but embraced as an opportunity to improve job attractiveness for your workforce. 

Better jobs mean happier employees who are more invested in your core mission while giving your organization a distinct edge in competing for the best talent in the market.”

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