Manager Project

Vanessa L. Cofield, CPA

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Old Bridge, New Jersey 08857

732-***-**** (home) * *******.*******@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessacofieldcpa

SUMMARY

Experienced Financial Management professional with diverse knowledge in

technical accounting, SEC and managerial reporting, consolidations,

financial planning and analysis and compliance. Demonstrated leadership in

building effective partnerships and motivating colleagues to work

collaboratively to achieve productivity and process improvements.

Successful in conducting root cause analyses and improving organizational

compliance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PFIZER INC, New York, New York 2001 - 2011

Senior Finance Manager, WBB US Controllership 2008 - 2011

Provided financial guidance and expertise to US human pharmaceutical

finance groups on accounting issues, GAAP, and corporate policies. Served

as the primary liaison for the finance teams with US shared service

centers.

. Performed assessment of profit sharing arrangements (e.g. Alliance

Revenue and Co Promote) to ensure appropriate gross-to-net methodology

and revenue recognition;

. Led the balance sheet reconciliation and account control process for

the US human pharmaceutical group resulting in first time achievement

of 90% compliance metrics;

. Served as primarily source of contact between finance colleagues and US

shared service center to facilitate communications about proper account

maintenance and accounting treatment;

. Served as primary source of contact for controllership team to build

and interpret reports from the HFM system supporting the teams ability

to prepare and perform detailed analyses;

. Coordinated and led human pharmaceutical US participation with internal

and external auditors leading to ratings of "good" (highest available);

. Prepared quarterly and monthly analytics for specific financial

statement areas impacting the human pharmaceutical US group helping to

provide transparency into the operations by senior management;

. Assisted with harmonization efforts for human pharmaceutical US group

for acquisition related activities resulting in minimizing the amount

of Day 0 adjustments;

. Partnered with human pharmaceutical US finance group colleagues in

annual asset impairment reviews which insured proper fair value

representations in the balance sheet;

. Participated on cross divisional team in developing centralized

reporting databases which minimized system redundancies and provided a

central point of entry for users; and

. Responsible for the global quarterly collection, consolidation,

analysis and disclosure of financial data pertaining to product

collaboration agreements and purchase obligations leading to consistent

and accurate financial disclosures.

Senior Project Manager, Global HQ Finance - Global Alliances 2008 - 2008

Led the collaboration and alliance finance activities for the global human

pharmaceutical finance groups, which represented numerous global markets.

. Responsible for supporting and coordinating royalties, settlements and

alliance payments for international co-promote products and alliance

agreements which involved gaining knowledge of financial terms of

agreements and liaising with various corporate and human pharmaceutical

functional groups;

. Provided financial planning and analysis for selected P&L line items

and assessed financial results and key performance drivers on a monthly

and quarterly basis versus budget and forecast;

. Product team finance representative responsible for vendor management

including overview and analysis of vendor agreement and billing

processes resulting in savings of $1M to the project team and award

recognition by the team;

. Responsible for supporting business development deal activity by

providing guidance on human pharmaceutical operations, financial

processes and accounting and working with the product finance leads to

implement proper accounting for the agreements;

. Responsible for the design and implementation of the global quarterly

collection, consolidation and analysis process for the purpose of

providing a new financial disclosure pertaining to product

collaboration agreements and purchase obligations (provided with

recognition award by corporate assistant controller for ideas on

improving process efficiencies);

. Liaised with corporate Controllers and acted as point of contact for

international markets to ensure consistency in following financial and

accounting guidelines which aided in providing consistency to

accounting entries and financial disclosures; and

. Prepared SOPs for various accounting processes in the US to provide

documentary evidence of compliance with corporate policies.

Assistant Manager, Consolidations - Financial Reporting and Analysis

2004 - 2008

Responsible for the global quarterly collection, consolidation and

analysis of supplemental financial data for use in the preparation of the

financial statements and footnote disclosures in SEC filings and

management reporting. Led staff of two colleagues.

. Performed a root-cause analysis leading to the reengineering of the

cash flow, supplemental and disclosure collection and preparation

process improving reporting capabilities by 15 days within a 6 month

window;

. Improved financial reporting analysis process and provided key

performance indicators resulting in a transparent, detailed reporting

package for senior management review;

. Member of cross-divisional team to provide forecast of cash flow

metrics allowing management to issue operating cash flow metrics to the

public for the first time;

. Responsible for heavy journal entry processing, verbal and written

monthly communications with global legal entities and business unit

finance colleagues furthering the ability to provide meaningful

variance reporting and supporting analysis for senior management;

. Responsible for monitoring and approving costs, preparing journal

entries, conducting variance analysis and coordinating issue resolution

relating to costs incurred under restructuring initiatives allowing for

appropriate reporting and disclosure;

. Participated in testing of new HFM financial reporting system and

training of sites in usage to ensure minimization of user access issues

prior to launch; and

. Participated on cross-functional team tasked with identifying,

standardizing and improving processes and introducing efficiencies in

furtherance of continuous improvement efforts.

Assistant Manager, External Reporting 2001 - 2004

Member of three-person team responsible for the analysis and accumulation

of financial data for the preparation of various SEC filings (Forms 10K,

10Q, 8K, 11K, and S-4), annual reports, regulatory filings (Form 5500) and

responses to SEC inquiries.

. Led initiative to harmonize 25 employee benefit plans which required

compilation, preparation and external audits by coordinating efforts of

legal, human resources, tax, treasury and external reporting teams; and

. Took initiative to redesign excel based template used to prepare cash

flow statement to ensure completeness of data and led cross-divisional

efforts to prepare quarterly cash flow statement by obtaining and

consolidating data from various ad hoc sources.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE, LLP, New York, New York

Audit Manager 1999 - 2001

Provided business advice to clients on financial reporting, improving

business cycles, accounting processes and compliance with SEC guidelines.

Responsible for supervising teams of up to 5 individuals.

MITCHELL & TITUS, LLP, New York, New York 1993 - 1999

Audit Manager

Provided client consultation on areas ranging from financial reporting to

adoption of accounting procedures and regulatory changes in a variety of

industries including Non-Profit, Publishing, Broadcasting, Marketing,

Technology and Employee Benefits. Responsible for supervising teams of up

to 8 individuals.

CERTIFICATION/ EDUCATION

CPA - State of New York

BS, Accounting - Brooklyn College, CUNY, cum laude

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