Financial Manager

TERRY COX

. **** Stone Pointe Drive

Kennesaw, GA 30152

770-***-**** mobile

770-***-**** home

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Finance Professional with extensive Fortune100 company experience and

leadership with a proven track record of accomplishments in accounting

and finance, including:

. Financial Planning

. Financial Analyses

. Merger Synergies

. Financial Reporting

. Corporate Accounting

. Budgeting / Forecasting

. Driver Based Modeling

. Business Case Developments

. Profit Improvement Initiatives

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consulting / Contract Work

Independent Consultant Atlanta, GA

2009 - 2010

Short-term work assignments involving all areas of financial

management including financial modeling and analysis, financial

reporting, budgeting and planning, and executive presentations.

AT&T

Director - Consumer Operations - Finance Atlanta, GA

2007 - 2008

Responsible for expense and headcount management of the Consumer

Southeast region ($1.2B / 6,000 employees) including monthly

reporting, financial projections, planning models, budget

development and business case reviews. Led and managed 4 senior

finance managers.

. Developed a new reporting process, financial reports and

analyses that were used as guidelines and templates for other

business units in the newly created Southeast region.

. Reviewed and approved operational invoices and journal entries

of $8M to $12M monthly.

. Provided independent due diligence for the repatriating of off-

shore vendor costs into the Southeast region ($28M and 700

sales representatives); resulted in recommendations being

implemented and incorporated into the business case. Proposal

achieved meeting both operational as well as financial

expectations.

. Served as Finance lead for several merger synergies teams;

successfully achieved planned expense and headcount reduction

targets.

BellSouth Corporation

Director - Wireline Operations - Financial Planning & Analysis

Atlanta, GA 2000 - 2007

Responsible for BellSouth's Wireline Operations planning process

($14B Revenues, 55,000 employees) including development and

coordination of key assumptions, procedures and guidelines, and

presentations for Board of Directors meetings & Executive

leadership. Led and guided staffs of 4 to 6 finance managers.

. Developed an independent in-house driver based model for

revenue, expense, headcount and capital; included long-term

forecasts for income statements, cash flows and balance sheets

(1, 3 & 10 year views). Recognized by industry consultants as

"leading edge" modeling.

. Developed governance process for tracking transformational cost

initiatives (procurement, G&A, avoidable cost and rework) that

were estimated to save $300M.

. Reviewed and negotiated targets with business units.

Successfully reduced an annual Operating Margin target gap from

. $1.5B to less than $100M in 4 years. Collaborated with the

business units in developing linked driver based models that

served as the cornerstone for a new company-wide resource

allocation process.

. Created a Business Financial Simulation model; asked by Human

Resources to conduct presentations and seminars with key senior

management (over a 3 year period).

. Key member of the merger & acquisition team for the

AT&T/BellSouth merger. Partnered with AT&T in integrating and

incorporating BellSouth's financial data. Also, negotiated

first year financial targets; successfully achieved desired

operating budget.

Director - Wireline Operations - Financial Reporting Atlanta,

GA 1996 - 2000

Responsible for monthly reporting, financial analyses, budget

development, and employee bonus compensation of BellSouth's Wireline

Operations. Directed a staff of 5 senior financial analysts.

. Created new reports that linked key operational drivers to

financial metrics. Used by Senior Management in identifying

potential cost reductions savings and productivity

improvements.

. Developed and coordinated financial presentations for the Board

of Directors meetings and quarterly Executive leadership

reviews; including both management and non-management employee

annual bonus award price-outs ($250M).

. Participated in the CWA Union contract negotiations (last 3

contracts) by serving as the Finance lead. Responsible for

financial price-out modeling ($1B) and scenario analyses

(salary & wages, benefits, work rules). Successfully achieved

desired cost/benefit outcome in each contract. Received awards

and special recognition from Executive leadership.

. Served as Finance lead and subject matter expert for Credit

Rating Agencies review of BellSouth's debt ($9B in Debentures).

Prepared summaries and presentations for review.

Manager - Financial Analysis Atlanta, GA

1992 - 1996

Responsible for monthly financial reporting, target and budget

development and negotiations, financial modeling and business case

reviews.

. Developed state by state regulatory models for projections and

forecasts.

. Negotiated financial targets with each state's operations.

. Analyzed financial impacts on the company's unregulated

operations.

. Received department head award and individual performance award

each year.

Staff Manager - Corporate Accounting Birmingham,

AL 1988 - 1992

. Prepared South Central Bell's quarterly and annual SEC filings.

. Produced monthly financial / accounting tracking reports &

Executive Summary.

. Prepared quarterly and annual FCC reports.

. Coordinated and helped implement the ASI subsidiary

recombination.

. Wrote regional CPE warranty and uncollectible revenues accrual

procedures.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

. Vanderbilt University M.B.A. in Finance,

Accounting

7 University of Tennessee B.S. in Finance

KEY STRENGTHS

. Proven leadership and successful management skills

. Over 12 years experience of personally supervising 4 to 6

senior finance managers.

. Led and trained finance employees (over 100) in company-wide

financial planning process by providing seminars, written

instruction guidelines and modeling templates.

. Served as the Finance team lead for business case developments

and profitability improvement initiatives that included

representatives from numerous departments.

. Served as the Finance point of contact for the union contract

negotiations (9 years).

Example: Planned for the union contract negotiations; started one

year ahead of schedule; presented a strawman schedule and

deliverable with a proposed process flow. Identified key

financial issues and developed templates to capture price-

outs. Set up various teams to start gathering data and

developing models.

. Ability to effectively summarize complex issues

. Experience in putting together high level documents that

capture key issues, conclusions and recommendations by building

financial frameworks that are easy to understand while at the

same time comprehensive in their summary.

. Used a variety of formats - waterfalls, tables, graphs,

sensitivities, scenarios, flow charts, etc.

. Able to accomplish this very quickly and efficiently by

building models and presentations using a "drill down"

approach.

Example: Presentation and review of the 3 year financial plan for

BellSouth for Senior Management and for the Board of

Directors. Developed a series of presentations that were

consistent and flowed one to another (a one-page executive

summary, a 5 page high level report, a 25 page planning deck

and a detailed 125 page planning binder).

. Strong experience and understanding of financial and business

drivers

. Key member on numerous teams as the Finance lead in company-

wide restructuring plans, cost savings initiatives and planning

process improvements.

. Personally developed driver based models as well as managed

groups in implementing and integrating business and financial

plans.

Example: A set of company-wide transformational cost initiatives

were identified to be priced out and tracked. Personally

developed tracking templates as well as salary and wage

price-out models. Performed high level due diligence on team

members' analyses.

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