New York, New York, United States
VP Finance and CFO with a demonstrated record of consistently building and leading performance-driven finance organizations. Extensive hands-on experience across both global financial and commercial operations. Specific skill in startup operations, designing, and launching new businesses. Proven record of building relationships, and designing and negotiating profitable deals. High level of success combining strategic planning, expert financial qualifications, and strong business management to improve operational P&L’s & Cash Flows. Specialties: CFO | Business Strategy and Planning | P&L Management Finance | Accounting | Auditing | Consulting International Operations | Financial Re-Rngineering M&A | Compliance | FP&A Business Development | Startup | Sales | Business Partners Global Solutions & Software | Non-Profit Manufacturing | Supply Chain | Procurement | Quality | Material Management Information Technology | Engineering | Integration | Transformation
Serve as the Finance lead for Corporate Functions, supporting seven Executive Vice Presidents and their senior leadership teams. Responsible for all financials, budgets, procurement, and accounting governance for this group. Also responsible for total Pfizer Capital management. Manage a globally diverse financial team.
CFO responsibility for the company CIO and his senior team, supporting all technology for the global enterprise. Direct unit financials, budgets, procurement, and fiduciary accounting. Manage a globally diverse financial team. Member of senior leadership team, trusted to provide advice and counsel on operations, commercial contracts, resources, strategy and financials.
Progressed to Finance lead for EVP of National Engineering & Operations and Senior Team. Directed all unit financials, budgets, procurement, and fiduciary accounting. Supported 5,000 FTE engineering, operations, IT, and development organization. Managed geographically dispersed financial senior team, in NJ, PA, and CO, including 12 facilities and data centers. Member of senior leadership team, trusted to provide advice and counsel on strategy, operations, commercial contracts, resources and financials. • Achieved operational financials each of the last 3 years, managing $2B of operations. Developed and implemented 5 Year Plan. Reduced fixed operating costs +$50M over 3 years. • Led integration of financials and team from Comcast Media Center in Denver, CO. • Key member of SLT that led financials for national transformation of Engineering team that created strategic plan to drive optimization and cost reduction across the organization. • Developed and built strong, diverse financial team, with improved department ratings year-over-year.
Collaborated with company leadership delivering financials during extended period of change following company acquisition by Private Equity. • Profitably constructed, reviewed and managed all large sales deals on a global basis, resulting in improved win rates, sales growth, and streamlined deal completion time by half.
Selected to Finance Lead reporting to the President of Global Technology & Operations Group. Managed all operating financials and fiduciary accounting for Operations (Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, Customer Care) and IT on a global enterprise basis. • Led enterprise re-engineering initiative that improved operating costs by +20% in two years.
Hired to lead the global Financial Planning & Analysis including the global financial plan, outlook, and analysis for $5B total enterprise. Recruited and managed a team of high profile MBA’s to provide financial analysis to Controller and CFO for monthly and quarterly results, earnings, & Board preparation. • Created and implemented new Global - Region & Country P&L’s to drive consistency of reporting and management accountability for revenue and profit.
Selected by President of North America Sales, to this high-profile position to grow this newly formed distribution sales channel. Led negotiations with customers to rework existing distributor agreements and develop new business alliances. • Negotiated and managed the divestiture and sale of Services unit to improve profitability by $40M. • Structured and executed new sales agreements with two of the country’s largest data product wholesalers increasing annual software revenues by $60M. • Recruited and built a team of 7 deal professionals to review customer business plans and negotiate new, more profitable agreements. Restructured leases and debt with financial institutions.
Recruited to manage business financials, bids, and proposals for a national sales business with 28 branch offices and 3000 employees, selling to enterprise customers. • Designed and executed a Sales Branch consolidation plan reducing branch locations from 28 to 19 in one year, realizing cost savings of $20M. • Promoted as Finance lead for Data Networking Systems, a high-growth start-up unit, that successfully integrated financials and processes for 8 acquired companies.
Finance Lead for newly formed spinoff, Lucent Technologies, responsible for supporting sales, new deals and channel profitability.
Promoted to Finance Lead for new Broadband Communications/Global Commercial Markets Business Unit and sales channel supporting contracts, revenue and sales.
Selected for Corporate Audit Management Development Program at AT&T HQ. Promoted to Senior Internal Auditor, International. Traveled extensively conducting audits and security reviews in 24 countries.
Hired into Management Trainee Program at the NC Manufacturing Facility. Promoted to Division Operations HQ Staff in Morristown, NJ.