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Dublin, Coolock, Ie

Lead the region’s commercial finance activities including strategic and tactical planning, supervision of the North America financial Shared Services Center and managed care contracting and rebate administration functions. Consult on North America financial matters with Executive Vice President, Finance and C.F.O., Corporate Vice President Controller, Corporate Treasurer and V.P. Tax.Major Accomplishments:• Fortune 500 Company, with excellent long term reputation and premium valuation of 22x earnings. • Integrated accounting functions of 4 acquisitions, ranging in value from $250 million to $3.4 billion, into North America Shared Services Center, enabling common systems and greater user capability within new consolidated company• Led North America finance team in accounting and operational spin-off of non-core surgical device and optical business, creating incremental shareholder value.• Oversaw successful North America region complex Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 implementation initiative and subsequent compliance with policy.• Implemented systems to ensure in-channel inventories’ maintenance within policy and to minimize speculative buying, reducing wholesale channel inventory by 50%.• Through implementation of productivity enhancing initiatives reduced Finance Cost to Net Sales ratio by 40%. • Improved Days Sales Outstanding from 46 days to 37 days, increasing cash flow and reducing risk.• Created high performing finance team for North America region.

Dublin, Coolock, Ie

Manage controllership, accounting, finance, short and long range financial planning, budgeting and analysis, and working capital management for multiple Asia-Pacific pharmaceuticals subsidiaries from Japan to New Zealand and Philippines to Pakistan. Led Finance function involvement in business development initiatives.Major Accomplishments:• Through business development activity and appropriate resource allocation, increased region sales by 18% per annum and improved Operating Income to Net Sales ratio from 13.4% to 27.8%.• As team member, led financial integration of joint venture in Japan, expanding business into optical industry.• Led financial aspects of joint venture evaluation and negotiations in Pakistan and Korea, expanding pharmaceutical markets and increasing revenues.• Led financial aspects of region reorganization after 1997/8 currency crisis, minimizing short term losses while positioning company for future growth.• In conjunction with Corporate Tax, successfully defended transfer pricing investigation in Japan, avoiding additional Japanese taxes and/or penalties.• Co-negotiated to acquire ophthalmic products in India to provide critical mass to local entity, increasing product availability and corresponding revenues.• Assembled high performing finance teams, setting benchmark criteria for high performance, enabling successful negotiations, acquisitions, transitions, and compliance to domestic and international laws.• Mentored and trained successor.

Dublin, Coolock, Ie

Responsible for finance, accounting and administration (statutory filings e.g. taxes and statutory accounts, treasury etc.) for the East Asia Area (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Phillippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.) Negotiated distributor agreements/amendments; monitored in-market and to-market sales and led Finance function involvement in business development.

Dublin, Coolock, Ie

Responsible for finance, accounting and administration (statutory filings e.g. taxes and statutory accounts, treasury etc.) for the Southern Africa Area (South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mauritius) Negotiated distributor agreements/amendments and led Finance function involvement in business development.