Manager
• Responsible for managing monthly accounting processes, including global business restructuring accounting ($32M per year), asset accounting – dispositions/discontinued operations, and capitalization of internally used software ($20m per year) in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley controls.• Developed and implemented process improvement for Trade A/R ageing / Uncollectible Reserves ($800M per quarter) to enhance visibility to drivers of reserve requirements.• Controllership responsibility for Alcatel-Lucent Foundation – Alcatel-Lucent’s charitable foundation. Interfaced with banks to streamline payment process to beneficiary grantees, accounted for all activities, board meetings and tax returns. Moved reporting from ALU server based platform to web-based platform. Beneficiary grants of $4M per year.• Performing balance sheet analysis including sub-ledger to general ledger reconciliations.• Managing a diverse organization responsible for corporate center book closing processes, external reporting, corporate quarterly reporting, and addressing / resolving external audit requests.• Key accomplishments: multiple conversions of accounting systems from internally developed platforms to various versions of SAP on US and Canadian platforms, completion of corporate initiatives in the Lucent IPO from AT&T, and merger accounting relating in the Alcatel-Lucent merger, offered financial/accounting support for business units ensuring GAAP (AT&T/LUCENT) or IFRS (ALCATEL-LUCENT) guidelines were met.
