Chief Accounting Officer And Corporate Controller
CurrentI lead a team of 7 highly-skilled direct reports who oversee over 150 valued colleagues. Together, we are responsible for Frontier’s external financial reporting and related filings with the SEC, corporate technical accounting and accounting policy, regulatory, capital asset accounting, capital budgeting, payroll, accounts payable, project team member for acquisitions, divestitures, other strategic finance projects, and compliance with Sarbanes Oxley section 404. While at Frontier I have also accomplished the following:- Lead the acquisition accounting for over $12B in acquisitions and raising over $12B in debt and equity through public offerings; oversaw due diligence on these acquisition targets.- Lead the divesture accounting team on performing carve outs of 4 states from our portfolio for a $1.4B sale- Implemented robust controls, processes, and procedures related to complex accounting matters including purchase accounting, goodwill and long-lived asset impairment, pension accounting, share-based compensation, restructuring and integration expense, and complex financial instruments.- Assisted in implementing the new revenue recognition standard and lead the team on implementing the new lease standard- Creating shared service centers for most accounting operations in order to achieve the synergies from these acquisitions.- Recently lead the Accounting Team through a financial restructuring process, in which Frontier has reduced its debt by approximately $11 billion and annual interest expense by approximately $1 billion.
