Project Management

Steven P McVey c: 732-***-****, e: *******@*****.***

Professional Experience

AT&T (Controllers Group), Senior Budget Analyst, Middletown, NJ October 2007 – Present

• Responsible for managing AT&T’s $16 Billion embedded base depreciation for global Wireline and Mobility

businesses. This encompasses creating plans and outlooks for support of companywide budgeting and

analysis.

• Work on financial analysis assignments of complex levels across all channels of business regarding

depreciation & amortization. Reconcile unbalanced data trends with variance explanations.

• Build and maintain $1 Billion incremental expense forecast model based on incurred capital commitments,

strategic initiatives and historical data. Monitor performance drivers and highlight trends.

• Create multiple three and ten year depreciation budget views using advanced analytics and collaboration with

other business units. Expertise in the workings of the budget model system and provide business acumen that

supports decisions on a corporate level.

• Project multi-year forecasts for fixed assets from data received through internal database warehouses. These

forecasts drive the unit asset depreciation expense for AT&T wireline’s embedded assets.

• Develop an allocation depreciation process for corporate finance by constructing an actuals driven financial

model based on year-to-date actuals for senior management.

• Monitor financial reporting for purchase intangible amortization by consolidating data from multiple sources,

compiling databases and formulating spreadsheets.

• Consistently a top performer in delivering accuracy within the whole of AT&T Finance organization.

• Knowledge of enterprise financial planning and analysis and related systems.

• Assist with the preparation of presentations for upper management to overview key assumptions and

methodology’s used in process development.

• Extensive broadly distributed ad-hoc analysis for budget processes and month-to-month variances.

AT&T (Corporate Planning), Senior Financial Analyst, Dayton / Bedminster, NJ April 2003 – August 2007

• Built a ten year depreciation outlook model for Legacy SBC assets and integrated it into the AT&T wireline

forecast reports. Conducted monthly analysis and reporting in order to accurately depict the overall

embedded base expense.

• Reported any month-over-month discrepancies and their effect on annual expenses. This entailed detailing

variances and explanations of fluctuations in the forecast.

• Developed a three year outlook for software amortization using knowledge of billing contracts, labor

distribution and acted as a point of contact for IUS / labor policy inquires.

• Analyzed and tracked Information Technology business cases through numerous variance reports to

determine capital budget approval and ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley. Assessed budgetary concerns

effecting project scope and time constraints.

• Supervised and supported the transition and construction of the Legacy AT&T depreciation allocation, plan

and outlook in all areas of financial modeling, production and results reporting.

AT&T (ALS Asset Management), Financial Analyst I, Dayton, NJ January 2001 - March 2003

• Coordinated budget transfers and prepared data variances for the Local Network Service capital budget; using

various AT&T internal programs.

• Managed the distribution of a $1.5B LNS capital budget; systemized the tracking of capital expenditures and

various project spending analysis. Ascertain the accuracy in funding allocation.

• Liaised with Network Planners to secure approvals and assured business processes and procedures were

followed related to the obligation and commitment of funds.

• Produced numerous special projects and adhoc reporting for upper management on a weekly basis and

successfully implemented all project deliverables (E.g. monthly portfolio project analysis).

Telecommunications Group (TCG), Finance Coordinator, Dayton, NJ July 1998 -

December 2000

• Generated and maintained product line cost analysis guidelines to establish unit costs for local network

services used in the budgeting process.

• Analyzed and tracked regional business cases to ensure project expenditures met company expense

requirements.

Software/Skills

MS Excel (Advanced.), Financial Model Development, Data & Variance Analysis, Pivot Tables, MS Word

(Advanced), MS Access, Hyperion Essbase, MS PowerPoint, Crystal Reporting, Google Services

Education

Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, B.A. Degree Earned: May 1997

Major: Communications / Minor: Finance

Master’s Certification in Project Management, Steven’s Institute of Technology, 2003

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