Meet our team
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Anita (she/her)
Lead Bookkeeper, PCP - Payroll Compliance Practitioner, Awards: Top 50 Women in accounting 2021
Anita loves to work together with the Financly team to help make the financials clean, informative, and make sense for business owners. For fun, Anita enjoys: Hiking, playing soccer, spending time with family, and reading on the beach.
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Chris (she/her)
Canadian Professional Bookkeepers - Certified Bookkeeper Technician, Quickbooks - Advanced Certified ProAdvisor Online
Chris has been a bookkeeper since 2002. She likes the way that bookkeeping is like a puzzle to solve and when you get all the pieces just right you see the clear picture. In her spare time, Chris enjoys reading and is a big Supernatural fan.
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Connie Smith, CFO Co-Owner (she/her)
Certified Professional Bookkeeper
Insightful Accountant's Top 100 Pro-advisors 2020 - 2022
Connie is a master at financial record keeping and has 38 years of experience in bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, and extensive experience with purchasing and inventory control. Connie loves to solve problems and sort out messy books. Her passion for solving hard problems has led to creating processes that solve hard Shopify and Amazon Accounting challenges. Having run her own business for the past 20 years, Connie offers an intimate knowledge of the joys and challenges faced by small business owners in the pursuit of success and work-life balance. Clients not only benefit from her bookkeeping knowledge but can leverage her expertise and insights as a small business owner/entrepreneur.
Connie loves being able to take a mess of data, work with it, and hand back useful financial data to help my client's. When not working, she loves reading and hanging out at her dock.
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Jessie Manuel (she/her)
Certified Professional Bookkeeper - Advanced QBO Advisor
Jessie has been inquisitive & logical since childhood - it only made sense to her to put these skills to good use! Jessie graduated with Honours from Sheridan College and began pursuing a designation with CPA (CGA). During this time, Jessie gained knowledge in both public & private accounting and found the most passion within the bookkeeping role - working more closely with clients to build relationships, assisting them in understanding their business and reaching their goals.
When fun is calling, Jessie enjoys hosting dinner parties, pointillism painting, and working on small projects around the home & yard.
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Mae (they/them)
Administrative Assistant
Mae is a part-time administrative assistant at Financly. They are also a freelance ballet teacher, poet, and intersectional feminist. Mae’s spare time is filled with books, friendships, and long walks in the forest with their wife and dog.
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Marina Rimec
Bookkeeper
Marina's bookkeeping skills stem from her love of organizing. She enjoys the connection with clients and is driven by easing their workload. When not at work, Marina loves to be outdoors with her family or immersed in a good book.
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Uyi Edivri
Bookkeeper - Advanced Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor
Uyi is passionate about helping business owners gain financial clarity and make confident business decisions that drive profitability and positive cash flows.
She is an avid learner and loves to share knowledge and motivate others
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Teresa Slack ACS, FLMI, CEO - Co-Owner(she/her)
Certified Professional Bookkeeper
Professional Leader of the Year 2020, The firm of The Year 2020, Top 100 ProAdvisor North America 2019, 2020, 2021, Top 50 Women in Accounting Worldwide 2019
Teresa (Terri) offers clients the benefit of 35 years of experience. She is not only knowledgeable in bookkeeping, but in accounting and system setup, business management, sales and marketing, customer service, staff training, policy and procedure, forecasting, staff leadership, and mentorship. Teresa has a passion for Shopify and Amazon Accounting and loves to empower business owners and the accounting professionals that love them to solve their Shopify and Amazon Accounting headaches. E-Commerce Bookkeeping is complex, Teresa teaches how to make it easier! With such a well-rounded business skill set, Terri can advise clients with more than just their bookkeeping but can consult on their business operation as a whole.