Vice President of Finance

CARLOS A. PFEIFFER

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Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724

631-***-****/adoahu@r.postjobfree.com

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Summary

• A top performing financial services professional with extensive global accomplishments in financial planning and analysis, technology finance, program management, and M&A divestiture planning and execution. Possess strong technical accounting knowledge and practical application of US GAAP (including leases, contingencies, capitalization of internally developed software, financial reporting)

• A visionary leader with expansive business acumen who achieves effective short and long-term value for an organization. Utilizes a collaborative style that fosters teamwork, agility, and execution

• Viewed as a trusted advisor to executive management. Employment Experience

Estee Lauder Companies, Long Island City, NY Jun. 2014 – Present Director of Finance – Information Technology

• Finance leader for the following technology towers: Interconnected Retail (ICR); Business Intelligence and Analytics; Global Brands and Functions, and North American Region. Promote the ownership of budgets/forecasts and expense control and benefit realization by relevant business manager by providing the support necessary to enable accountability.

• Principal finance lead for cross functional innovation program, the Intelligent Automation COE.

• Strategic end to end financial advisor for $75M project stack, starting from business case formulation, establishment of KPI’s, securing of funding, execution, to post implementation benefits realization. Sample large-scale programs include Consumer Data Platform, Enterprise Data Lake, Retail Operating System implementations. Aided with the establishment of best practices for supporting SaaS efforts.

• Assist with development and execution of strategy, this includes organizational operating model, accelerated delivery, and project portfolio governance and funding.

• Institute business auditable standards to drive efficiencies, optimization, consistency, shared services leverage, cost reductions. Establish consistent financial framework, which historically was decentralized across multiple businesses, including financial policies, standards, planning and functional reporting.

• Prepare total cost of ownership and transparency reporting that facilitates collaboration between IT organization and business side management.

• Build and manage long–range financial models. Assist with preparation of financials for numerous IT business cases, capital appropriation requests, allocation models, vendor selection RFP’s, benchmarking efforts. Actively managed negotiations with external vendors for technology services.

• Participate in steering committee meetings, project portfolio governance reviews and consistently engage with senior level management from both IT and functional business areas. Citigroup, Jersey City, NJ Jul. 2013 – June 2014

Business Management Analyst (Consultant)

• Provided expense, budgetary, and FP&A reporting support for the Director of Information Management and Shared Services segment of the Investment Bank Treasury and Trade Services (TTS) unit. Reporting highlights trends, variances, and business drivers.

• Managed reporting on capitalized hardware and software, provided accounting guidance (i.e. software capitalization) and periodic impairment reviews to assess the quality of capitalized assets American International Group, Inc. New York, NY Feb. 2008 – June 2013 Director of Finance, Corporate Center Finance Mar. 2009 – June 2013

• Responsibilities included setting overall budget processes for Restructuring, Divestiture and Corporate Human Resources Technology management teams.

Restructuring, Divestiture Office

• Member of AIG’s divestiture finance office supporting 45+ divestitures, approximately $50B in sales transactions carrying out financial oversight for sales of company’s operating units to repay Federal government post taxpayer bailout.

• Assisted with the development of financial management policies and processes to manage costs for separation/retention, deal-related costs (bankers, lawyer, consultants), and billings for transition service. During height of financial crisis, deal–related professional fees totalled $500M per year. CARLOS A. PFEIFFER Page 2

• Part of a task force that created new firm-wide expense policies for approval by company Board of Directors and U.S. Treasury as TARP recipient and lead compliance certification process.

• Provided financials for SEC restructuring cost disclosures

• Liaised with FRBNY regulators on spend related to divestitures and projects. Corporate Human Resources Technology

• Technology finance support lead for AIG’s $164M Global Human Resources Systems Transformation initiatives

• Assisted with the multi-year modeling, business cases, and Investment Decision Board applications for numerous IT projects including:

• Worldwide deployment of a common HR infrastructure platform;

• Outsourcing of Application Managed Services (AMS);

• Development of technology systems for Federal Reserve Supervision requirements for compliance with Dodd-Frank;

• Prepared annual plan and implemented budget process.

• Involved with vendor selection and the analysis of RFPs.

• Assisted the tax department with ensuring integrity of transfer pricing methodology.

• Managed balance sheet review / reporting on capitalized hardware and software, provided accounting guidance (i.e. software capitalization) and periodic impairment reviews to assess the quality of capitalized assets

Manager of Finance, Financial Services Division, Operations and Systems (O&S) Feb 2008 – Mar 2009

• Managed planning/ analysis reporting requirements for AIG's Financial Services Division (FSD), a portfolio of commercial and consumer finance businesses. Teamed with department and business units to prepare O&S budget of $400million.

• Tracked technology project costs together with wider costs of implementing the project such as cost associated with business process reviews, on-going operating cost impacts.

• Assisted with recommending timelines and resources needed to achieve the IT program goals. Iqor. New York, NY Apr. 2007 – Jan. 2008

Vice President: Financial Planning and Analysis

• Prepared annual Operational Expense budget for the Information Technology Department. Primarily responsible for monthly re-forecasts.

• Assisted with the development of the Capital Expenditure Model. Provided analytics for weekly

‘CAPEX’ meetings where specific requests are presented directly to the CEO of company for his approval. Also, was responsible for providing research for weekly Technology Leadership Team meetings.

Marvel Entertainment, New York, NY Jun. 2005 – Apr. 2007 Manager of Financial Analysis

• Assisted with the preparation of annual budgets and necessary supporting documentation for MVL’s licensing division. Participated in the evaluation of budget proposals and revisions. Analyzed monthly revenue and expense variances versus the budget.

• Developed a five year corporate long term forecast. Assisted with maintenance of long term Studio Division film cash flow models.

Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., New York, NY Mar. 2001 – Jun. 2005 Senior Financial Analyst (promoted to Manager, January 2005)

• Developed monthly ‘Brand Profitability Analysis’, ‘Balanced Business Scorecard’ and assisted with preparation of quarterly ‘Customer Contribution Analysis’ for review by executive committee. Sturza’s Institutional Research, New York, NY Jun. 1995 – Mar. 2001 Securities Analyst

• Analyzed over the counter (OTC) growth-oriented securities in the biotech sector. Education

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

B.A. Economics – 1995

Skills

• Technical: Bloomberg Terminal, Advanced Excel (Macros, Pivot Tables); Access; Power-point, Power-BI, Tableau.

• Languages: Spanish (Fluent).

• Analytical ability, Knowledge of IT software, Commercial acumen, Capacity for innovation.

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