Patrick Blake Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Head of Finance for Global INOmax and Terlivaz (US launch Sep 2022)-US, Japan, Canada, China Markets

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

• Led financial planning and analysis for Hospital Brand business unit, interfacing directly with senior management and department heads for annual corporate financial planning.• Orchestrated Board Presentations for Hospital Business, contributing to long-range financial projections and corporate decision-making processes.• Supported Executive Leadership Team and Heads of Department with data-driven analysis, presentations, and recommendations, enabling informed strategic choices.• Ensured robust financial ownership across the team, providing oversight and training on financial processes to enhance budgeting and forecasting accuracy.• Collaborated on valuation analyses, including Discounted Cash Flows, for strategic corporate objectives such as acquisitions and joint ventures.• Conducted variance analyses and prepared ad-hoc reports, contributing to ongoing assessment and decision-making.• Partnered with senior leadership on discrete business development projects, leveraging financial insights to drive growth opportunities.• Identified and led process improvements to streamline financial processes and enhance operational efficiency.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

• Finance lead supporting Therakos© & Amitiza© Brands with $400M Net Sales. GM direct finance support on full P&L activities during closes, forecast, & strategic outlook of the brands.• Provide financial and analytical support to the Commercial organization expense budget, close/forecast responsibilities, headcount, & led Senior Level review with team monthly on financial updates. • Finance business partner to New Products, working cross functionally to create a new business unit and prepare for MNK’s first specialty product launches. • Lead standardizations across all finance units on forecast & budget process. Implementing targets across spend categories and standard process for budgeting across all MNK.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

• Provide financial and analytical support to the Consumer sales strategy organizations as well as business partnering with the respective customer, marketing, and finance teams. • Managed all Gross To Net activities for Consumer OTC’s brands reporting, forecasting and analytics of Returns, SD&A, and Trade. • Develop return on Investment analytics. Drive value creation by analyzing the effectiveness of promotions and providing recommendations to the Sales and Marketing leadership teams. • Provide strong leadership and analytics to manage the trade budget across all customer teams.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

• IT finance support for Supply Chain across Medical Device inclusive of quarter close, forecasting, and Latest thinking responsibilities.• Managed and provided analysis for capital projects inclusive of One MD projects that provided increase savings globally. • Responsible for all close activities including but not limited to journal entries, accruals, bravo submission, P&L call commentary, and headcount. • One MD consolidations across multiple MRC’s during actuals and business planning to show risk and opportunity to IT business partners along with Group Finance for Ops IT Global Function Target. • Presented to CFO and NA Finance leaders on all quarterly closes and forecasting cycles to highlight to show risk and opportunity within the IT P&L.• Member in One MD hosting model, moving employee heads, charges, and controllable spend to one MRC that standardized process and templates along with reduce manual data pulls, entries, and handoffs.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Core based responsibilities included managing and forecasting $60 million dollar budget for our Medical Device sector companies in Acclarent Inc. & Mentor Corporation. Created strategic partnerships with Operating Company finance personnel and the Manila Shared Service Center to ensure all monthly, quarterly and yearly financial close and forecast responsibilities are completed timely, accurately and in compliance with SOX requirements. Drove Johnson & Johnson process improvements in key areas to drive standardization across companies.• Managed $60 million budget for functional business units – Finance, HR, Legal, Executive. Supported the Sales, Marketing, and R&D sector in P&L and balance sheet reviews and updating forecasting periods.• Develop and maintain full year budgets, forecasts and provide monthly and quarterly variance analyses. Supported four forecasting cycles, and lead all P&L consolidation for quarterly senior management reviews.• Provide the Acclarent and Mentor CFO and Finance Directors transparency into US Business Units performance through managing Quarterly P&L Reviews (Budget v. Actual Analysis).• Ensure compliance with SoX and GAAP through performing Monthly Account Reconciliations/Analysis. Perform accrual calculations, journal entries and other ad-hoc month end activities in QAD, SAP, JDE, and TM1 environments. • Identified opportunities to standardize and automate processes and lead and participate in NA-SSC or Operating Company initiatives. • Performed Ad hoc request and special projects will be required on an as needed basis and develop Johnson & Johnson co-ops/ interns.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Responsible and supported quarter and year end close on tax reconciliations and balancing. Analyzed all payroll tax master data and partnered with many business partners within J&J. Responsible for coordinating and reporting with affiliates for ad hoc requests. Partnered with the Payroll Finance group on general ledger account reconciliation and process improvements within the J&J affiliates.• Report and analyze financial tax audits on balanced sheets and many different types of financial statements to upper management.Team lead on several merger and acquisition projects on including Project Enable and Project Crimson. Partnering with HR and IT on several systems testing within SAP. • Utilized Ad-Hoc reports and reporting vendor payments to balance reconciliations to execute credit payments.• Analyzed process errors through new tax setups based on our employees master data. Working with the Operations team to reconcile year end W-2 information and supply it to our Executive committee.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Analyzed and reconciling master data changed effecting Johnson & Johnson North American payroll systems. Processing and reporting payroll tax information to our third party vendors. Performed daily audits to the master data in SAP for validation to the many payroll functions; services, processing, and operations.• Process improvements through SAP and our People Soft application that communications with Human Resources• Project leadership team engaging on new development to the payroll system that affects our North American employees.Analyzed and developed financial reporting to the Treasury department accessing employee’s compensation based on current and past year data.• Utilized Ad-Hoc reports and reporting vendor payments to balance reconciliations to execute credit payments.• Analyzed process errors through new tax setups based on our employees master data. Working with the Operations team to reconcile year end W-2 information and supply it to our Executive committee.Quarterly Tax Reporting and Reconcile.Year end project tracking, involving: benefits, tax, w2's, HR reporting, treasury, equity comp.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Analyzed and researching J&J supplier and affiliates account reconciliations to the SAP general ledger. Report any duplicate payments in the APEX control software. Partner with the Global Finance expense reporting team to assist testing based on general SOX complaint policies. • Assisted in J&J Shared Services 1099 Tax model. Adjusting tax amounts based on affiliate and 2011 tax information.o Matched TIN numbers against the IRS website to confirm incomplete suppliers.• Performed SOX 404 testing for gXRS MRC-9960 for year of first two quarters of 2012. Created test scripts, analyzed and performed tests, gathered backup information, and set up interviews for follow ups. Reviewed and analyzed the document control matrix with the gXRS team to finalize new methods to test key controls.o Member of the Internal Audit Metric Stream data upload project. Working with the team to harmonize and set up framework for hand off controls.• Analyzed and Audited Expense Reporting documents for items that are not covered under the T&E policy. Setting up the compliance mailbox for outstanding out of pocket expenses to show awareness to employees not following the Johnson & Johnson guidelines. • Developed financial strategies to account vendor invoice postings against the general ledgers of multiple Johnson and Johnson afflicted companies.o Provided analytical support to the supplier accounts management team via our ARAVO supplier software for banking.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Researched and analyzed sales and use returns for the afflicted Verizon owned companies including Verizon Business Purchasing and MCI Metro. Reported TOTI tax on all of our entities, and negotiated with State and Local government in order to obtain the proper documentation in order to facilitate the amounts payable process. • Assisted on external and internal audits with KPMG and PWC on large dollar refund amounts.o Developed a strategy to reconcile monthly gross reports on filings that were overpayments on the general ledger. • Worked on outstanding tax notices based on several entities for our companies’ state and local tax.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General

Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)