Manager Finance

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Finance and Management high-energy professional adept at successfully solving complex problems, developing and leading professional teams, change management and operational continue improvement initiatives giving superior attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to see the ‘big picture’ and drive projects to completion and has a proven track record to reduce costs, improve efficiency and automate processes.

SKILLS

End-to-end knowledge of general ledger processes including closing entries and subledger reconciliations

Process improvement and re-engineering

Strong knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Lotus Notes

Leading and managing teams

Analytical and information reporting support to operational departments and senior management

Financial variance analysis

Budgeting and forecasting

Evaluating financial results

Procure to pay best practices and process improvement

WORK HISTORY

Dec. 2007 to Sept. 2016 Canon Business Process Services, Finance Manager

Budget creation for all Sales, Finance IT, Human Resources and corporate divisions

Preparation and review of monthly financial results against budget and trend

Interface with departmental leaders providing financial support and analysis

Managed and verified all account reconciliations

Review and approval all closing journal entries

Training, mentor and developing staff in the Philippines and in New York

Creation and maintenance of business requirements for automated document processing

Business controls for financial reporting and budget distributions across all operational regions

May 1977 to Feb. 2007 AT&T Inc.

Procurement Director (2004-2007)

Develop business requirements for international segment of e-commerce procure to pay process

Manage the operation of a financial information repository for the finance department of AT&T (vendors and accounts payable information)

Train and mentor procurement professionals

Manage the operations of the Procurement contract database

Develop contracts and issuance of purchase orders for equipment leasing.

Maintain and test Sarbanes-Oxley controls

Development and implementation of new financial process for vendor commitment costs.

AT&T Inc. Procurement Assoc. Director (2001-2003)

Documented business requirements and financial controls for procure to pay e-commerce process

Integrated procure to pay process with the Oracle ERP platform

Established the process to track and report the operational savings

Development of training and trained procurement managers for the procure to pay process

AT&T Inc. District Manager-Global Real Estate (1996-2000)

Development of new financial and operational performance measures

Implemented Oracle Accounts Receivable for the Global Real Estate division of AT&T

Budget development

Variance analysis of financial results against budget and trend

Preparation of executive briefing of monthly, quarterly and annual results

AT&T Inc. Work History Prior to 1996

Manager, Controller Organization (1992-1996) / Manager, Corporate Accounting (1989-1992) / Manager, HR-Human Resources Assessment Program (special assignment-1988-1989) / Manager, Fixed Assets – Controller Organization (1985-1988) / Supervisor, Corporate Accounting -- Balance Sheet Analysis (1982-1985) / Supervisor, Shared Services Organization (1979-1982) / Administrative Assistant (1977-1979).

EDUCATION

M.B.A., Finance, St. John’s University, New York, 1995

B.S., Economics (minor: Accounting), City University of New York, 1988

AAS-Business, City University of New York, 1984

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Financial Women’s Association of New York

Member Women of AT&T Women, New Jersey Chapter – Treasurer & Board 2007

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Canon Business Process Services-Implemented an electronic document workflow, approval and repository process for the general ledger journal entry process that is currently in use. Process reduced cost and improved efficiency by 20%

Reduced international vendors by 20% and issuance of paper purchase orders by 100% and cut operational costs by 20% after implementation of the Procure to Pay process while at AT&T.

Reduced financial operational costs by more than $5 M in the first year of operations after implementation of AT&T Procure to Pay process.

Led the implementation of simplified chargeback process for real estate costs within AT&T which cut internal chargeback transactions by 50%.

REFERENCES

Excellent references are available upon request.

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