Manager Management
Resume:
Lawrence W. Greenspan
Tampa, FL 33626
813-***-**** (Home)
908-***-**** (Cell)
**************@***.***
SPECIALTIES
o Budget/Finance/Forecasting
o P&L and B/S Analysis
o Business Unit Analysis
o Corporate Analysis
o Contract/Vendor Management
o Key Performance Metrics
o Process/Productivity Improvement
o Hyperion
o Essbase
o Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
o PeopleSoft
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bank of America April 2010 - October 2010
Consultant - Analyst
o Managing, reviewing, tracking and reporting of Bank of America/Merrill
Lynch merger forecasts, results and planning for the Global Wealth
Investment Management team, reporting to the Finance VP, utilizing
Peoplesoft, Hyperion Budget, Essbase and advanced Excel skills
Verizon Wireless, Warren, New Jersey January 2001-October 2009
Senior Financial Analyst
o Maintained and managed annual IT Finance Capital Fixed Assets Budget and
Best Look development, increasing efficiencies of analysis functions with
a budget of up to $286m.
o Automated the Capital Fixed Asset Budget process, developing enhancements
to increase reporting functionality using the PeopleSoft system.
o Managed review, tracking and reporting of all IT Projects against budget
and prior periods utilizing PeopleSoft, Essbase and advanced Excel.
o Led the review of all IT Capital projects, interfacing with VP and CIO,
updating the status of each project on an ongoing basis, following up
until each project is funded and performing process improvements on an
ongoing basis.
o Managed Capital funds to ensure Capital spending is on track for the
year, using PeopleSoft reporting.
o Contributed to the Integration of the IT Finance portion of the Alltel
acquisition, tracking all capital projects associated with the
transition.
Senior Financial Analyst
o Created monthly reports to track and analyze initiatives for reducing
Cost per Subscriber Print, Production and Postage, including Summary
Billing, On-line bill pay and reduction of billing inserts.
o Contributed to the renegotiation of contracts with billing vendor to
lower Cost per Subscriber from $.68 to $.45 for each of 20-25M packages,
per monthly bill cycle.
o Led project to mechanize reporting of IT Bill Processing, working
directly with programmers, cutting department headcount from three full-
time people to one part-time person.
o Budget and Best Look preparation of billing portion of the IT income
statement with a budget of $55m.
o Created and prepared Synergy Cost Savings Reports relating to closing of
Seventeen Bill Processing Centers and contract renegotiations with Bill
Processing vendors.
o Monthly book close and reporting for Management decision making of Bill
Processing data, creating high level Summary Reports for Bill Processing
expenses to prepare and analyze results vs. budget and prior periods for
reporting to Upper Management.
o Benchmarked IT Finance Bill Processing data for reporting to Upper
Management.
DoubleClick, New York, New York March 2000-January 2001
Consultant - Financial Analysis and Reporting
o Designed and implemented various Financial Planning and Analysis packages
for Upper Management, highlighting Income Statement Forecasting,
primarily using Oracle, Hyperion Essbase and Excel.
o Created and prepared weekly update on the status of TechSolutions
Business Unit, focusing on projected revenue, new sales, production and
marketing, used by the CEO in his quarterly conference call.
o Create Budget/Forecast for TechSolutions Income Statement, focusing on
all facets down to EBIT.
o Created cost and expense variance analyses for TechSolutions, instituting
controls that would hold Director level groups accountable for their
costs.
o Performed various additional analyses including Product mix, Ad mix,
Geographic mix, Headcount analysis and Impressions trending.
AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ October 1983-October 1999
Manager - Financial Reporting
o Management, preparation and analysis of business unit Outlook, Results
and Budget for Corporate Submission, to include Income Statement, Balance
Sheet, Funds Flow, 10Q and special projects.
o Designed and enabled Executive presentations for upper management
reporting to the Chairman and Investor Relations.
o Automated production of Corporate reports for external reporting,
improving delivery by 12 hours per month during critical phases of the
book close.
Manager - Communications Services Group
o Performed monthly preparation and analysis of Communications Services
Group Forecast, Outlook, Results and Budget to Corporate, utilizing
various system tools.
o Processing and analysis of 10Q/10K requirements.
o Coordination for intra-group, inter-entity validation and analysis.
o Preparation, analysis and transmission of Commitment Budget, Fall Plan,
Inter-entity Transfer processes and annual restatement processes.
o Acted as interface between Corporate and Business Unit financial staffs
on all accounting and system-related problems/solutions/requirements.
o Supervised five management employees.
Manager - Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
o Coordinated, prepared, analyzed, controlled and ensured the integrity of
the book close process for the Telecommunications Services portion of the
consolidated financial statements.
o Performed monthly, quarterly and annual Margin analysis, budget analysis
and 10Q/10K reporting.
o Acted as support for 14 Communications Services business units.
o Prepared analysis for Investor Relations.
o Prepared analysis and narratives for Annual Report footnotes.
Associate Manager - Special Projects
o Financial Accounting Architecture development of Function Codes for the
Business Unit Accounting process.
o Restatement of the Products and Services Income Statements, based on FCC
reporting requirements and USOA Part 32; member of AT&T vs. US West Cash
Discontinuity arbitration proceedings team to reconcile divestiture
related dispute of Working Capital.
Associate Manager - Income Statement Analysis
o Analysis of Income Statement expense accounts.
o Consolidated Income statement preparation.
o Product/Service Managed Income Statement preparation at a group level for
business unit analysis.
o Supervision of three non-management employees.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Queens College, Flushing, NY
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting, GPA 3.4, Major GPA 3.5
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