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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Developed new role to provide financial support for the Business 3rd-party sales channel organization. • Developed models to forecast gross adds(16M) and billed revenues($3.1B). Most of the information was not available previously at the partner type level. Other departments became confident enough in forecasts that they began to utilize them for quota development.• Developed monthly variance reporting with results for Channel management and Business finance.• Made changes to budget… Show more Developed new role to provide financial support for the Business 3rd-party sales channel organization. • Developed models to forecast gross adds(16M) and billed revenues($3.1B). Most of the information was not available previously at the partner type level. Other departments became confident enough in forecasts that they began to utilize them for quota development.• Developed monthly variance reporting with results for Channel management and Business finance.• Made changes to budget models and reports to include Fixed Wireless Access data when it became more important to business in 2022, and to use new partner type analytics when they became available in 2023. Show less

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

ZBB Financial Challenger responsible for $238M HR and Training and Travel and Expenses Packages. • Provided monthly variance analysis of expenses to budget and prior year results.• Proposed process improvements for booking and budgeting issues highlighted by variance analysis.• Validated ZBB savings initiatives in Shibumi to ensure savings were valid and prepared monthly Package Performance deck for management review.• Became department Subject Matter Expert on utilizing QLIK… Show more ZBB Financial Challenger responsible for $238M HR and Training and Travel and Expenses Packages. • Provided monthly variance analysis of expenses to budget and prior year results.• Proposed process improvements for booking and budgeting issues highlighted by variance analysis.• Validated ZBB savings initiatives in Shibumi to ensure savings were valid and prepared monthly Package Performance deck for management review.• Became department Subject Matter Expert on utilizing QLIK software with the GL to investigate expense variances. Trained other users on how to utilize it. Show less

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Managed $93M program budget for CM Digital Marketing team supporting 7 Directors and 215 team members, including Sales, Customer Chat, Social Engagement and Website Development and production teams. • Provided budget development at the line-item level, monthly results reporting including variance analysis, ad hoc analyses, and continuous outlook preparation. • Responsible for vendor sourcing, management, and payment including financial justification write-ups and accounting… Show more Managed $93M program budget for CM Digital Marketing team supporting 7 Directors and 215 team members, including Sales, Customer Chat, Social Engagement and Website Development and production teams. • Provided budget development at the line-item level, monthly results reporting including variance analysis, ad hoc analyses, and continuous outlook preparation. • Responsible for vendor sourcing, management, and payment including financial justification write-ups and accounting classifications.• Developed new tracking tool to make it easy to determine what contract stage projects were in. This was used to make decisions on what expenses could be stopped or shifted during outlook preparation. Show less

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Corporate Administrative Office (CAO) FP&A team member responsible for Fleet, Supply Chain, HR, and Global Real Estate groups.• Assisted with development of business cases to support capital purchases. Monthly monitoring of $81M capital spend, including monthly budget vs actual analysis and best view development.• As CAO Lean Six Sigma (LSS) finance validator reviewed and tracked financial benefits for all CAO led or CAO benefiting LSS initiatives that involved Fleet, Supply Chain, HR… Show more Corporate Administrative Office (CAO) FP&A team member responsible for Fleet, Supply Chain, HR, and Global Real Estate groups.• Assisted with development of business cases to support capital purchases. Monthly monitoring of $81M capital spend, including monthly budget vs actual analysis and best view development.• As CAO Lean Six Sigma (LSS) finance validator reviewed and tracked financial benefits for all CAO led or CAO benefiting LSS initiatives that involved Fleet, Supply Chain, HR, and Real Estate groups. • Developed business cases for Supply Chain and Fleet initiatives, such as RFID, Contract manufacturing, Vendor Managed Inventory and Vehicle Sharing. Show less

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Lead Revenue Accounting representative on multi-departmental team. Ensured new products and services for Verizon Wireless (VZW) were implemented in a way that ensured proper GAAP, product line and market level accounting treatment of revenues. • Reviewed Marketing Service Request documents. Developed Revenue Accounting requirements for each request. Reviewed IT approaches for implementing the service. Performed User Acceptance testing and post launch monitoring of new… Show more Lead Revenue Accounting representative on multi-departmental team. Ensured new products and services for Verizon Wireless (VZW) were implemented in a way that ensured proper GAAP, product line and market level accounting treatment of revenues. • Reviewed Marketing Service Request documents. Developed Revenue Accounting requirements for each request. Reviewed IT approaches for implementing the service. Performed User Acceptance testing and post launch monitoring of new services.• Required extensive daily interaction with multiple marketing, legal, and IT teams and the ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously with fluctuating business priorities. Projects included Share EverythingAccount level Pricing, Home fusion Broadband service and 4G. Many of these projects involved new types of services that VZW had never sold before or new types of payment or billing structures. Show less

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Responsible for accurate reporting of Verizon Wireless revenues at the market level for the partnership markets.• Acted as a single point of contact for the Partnership group for all revenue related audit questions and partnership requests.•Developed a methodology for investigating revenue trends that exceeded audit thresholds. Over 3 years the volume of audit request decreased significantly due to correction of market level booking issues and education of partnership team on financial… Show more Responsible for accurate reporting of Verizon Wireless revenues at the market level for the partnership markets.• Acted as a single point of contact for the Partnership group for all revenue related audit questions and partnership requests.•Developed a methodology for investigating revenue trends that exceeded audit thresholds. Over 3 years the volume of audit request decreased significantly due to correction of market level booking issues and education of partnership team on financial reporting methods.•Identified issue with activation fee revenue accrual that resulted in revenue being overstated for one billing system. Worked with IT to clean up data and put new process in place to prevent issue from reoccurring. Show less

Bedminster, New Jersey, United States

Treasury Operations team member working with core team on development and implementation of changes to wireless billing and point of sales systems to support new payment strategies.•Responsible for requirements definition, approach review, User Acceptance Testing and post production support.•Projects included security deposit and credit balance refunds, ACH payments, point of sale refunds, payment kiosks, auto-relief of employee accounts, consolidated billing.

Bedminster, New Jersey, United States

Coordinated overall planning for treasury operations for all billing and point of sales systems conversions during the Verizon Wireless formation from 4 wireless companies•Determined impact on treasury operations and lockbox processing and developed plans to mitigate impact.•Developed requirements to resolve functional differences.•Assisted with the development of a directional plan for consolidation of the Verizon Wireless lockbox processing network to 5 sites nationswide.

Bedminster, New Jersey, United States

Supervised 20 employee remittance processing and communication stores treasury support teams.•Responsible for the timely and accurate application of 2 million lockbox payments per month•Responsible for the reconciliation and recording of cash activity from over 100 communication stores.•Reduced unapplied payments from $4.5M to $2.4M and payment/balance questions from number 1 to number 4-5 on list of reasons customers called customer service. Achieved this by developing new ways to… Show more Supervised 20 employee remittance processing and communication stores treasury support teams.•Responsible for the timely and accurate application of 2 million lockbox payments per month•Responsible for the reconciliation and recording of cash activity from over 100 communication stores.•Reduced unapplied payments from $4.5M to $2.4M and payment/balance questions from number 1 to number 4-5 on list of reasons customers called customer service. Achieved this by developing new ways to research customer credit balances, and changing focus of team to ensuring they applied payments to correct account the first time.•Implemented new bank to point of sale reconciliation system ReconNet to reduce time spent on bank account reconciliations•Treasury Operations coordinator for conversion of new region to directional wireless billing and point of sales systems Show less

Bedminster, New Jersey, United States

Main accounting liaison with IT on development of new wireless billing system accounting interface to the general ledger.•Proposed new method for how billing system products map to a general ledger account by looking at different circumstances associated with the transaction. This was implemented and resulted in simplified bill cycle processing.•Implemented new process of having different cash clearing general ledger accounts used by the billing system for each payment source. This made… Show more Main accounting liaison with IT on development of new wireless billing system accounting interface to the general ledger.•Proposed new method for how billing system products map to a general ledger account by looking at different circumstances associated with the transaction. This was implemented and resulted in simplified bill cycle processing.•Implemented new process of having different cash clearing general ledger accounts used by the billing system for each payment source. This made it easier to reconcile out of balance conditions.•Bell Atlantic Accounting representative on multi-department team comparing the Bell Atlantic and Nynex billing systems after company merger. Show less