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New York, New York, Us

Led the divestiture and subsequent system cutover of Upjohn (to Viatris) and Consumer (to GSK) for Global Supply Chain. The Upjohn business was $10.5B in sales and the Consumer business was $3.4B in sales. Prior to the divestitures, led the legal entity separations of Upjohn and Consumer for Global Supply Chain. Collaborated across functions within Pfizer and with Viatris/GSK to revise financial product flows and ensure market operational readiness, without disrupting supply.

New York, New York, Us

Provide financial leadership to Pfizer's global supply chain operations, logistics, intercompany freight, supply point operations and local market distribution. Support the financial objectives of a $750 million organization by developing budgets and forecasts that achieve annual cost reduction targets. Achieved $122 million in cumulative budget savings from 2015 to 2017. Provide strategic business guidance to the leadership team in strategic and operational decisions, performance analysis, project evaluation, integrations, divestitures. Lead a geographically diverse finance team of 15 colleagues providing regional finance support and global management reporting.

New York, New York, Us

Collaborate with business development teams across Pfizer to address the supply chain and distribution aspects in acquisitions, divestitures, distribution agreements, co-marketing and licensing agreements. Translate business commercial value propositions into high level processes and product flows to facilitate effective implementation. Contribute to the development and review of transitional service agreements, supply agreements, distribution agreements. Led the Zoetis and Nutrition divestitures for Global Supply Chain. As the supply chain function lead for the Zoetis spin off, enabled the market operational readiness for each country's legal entity separation. Within aggressive timelines, remapped the supply chain and financial flows and created new business processes, while ensuring product supply and a smooth transition.

New York, New York, Us

Summarized and presented global budgets for Pfizer's worldwide intercompany and local market distribution operations. Managed operating plans, forecasts, actuals. Achieved $110 million in cumulative budget savings from 2003 to 2009 as the budget evolved form the original base of $340 million to $750 million. Developed financial analysis to evaluate strategic initiatives such as adding, moving or closing warehouses, integrating or divesting businesses, adapting to changes in business operating model, consolidating new volumes and outsource/insource decisions. Evaluated financial implications of strategic decisions, capital investments and lease vs. buy options, including impact on P&L, cash flow and NPV.

New York, New York, Us

Led and managed the implementation and ongoing support of a web-based financial forecasting and budgeting system for the worldwide manufacturing organization. System scope included plant P&L's, inventory, key products and capital projects. Assessed business needs and user requirements, developed high-level system design, tested new developments, facilitated issue resolution and supervised ongoing system support to 200+ worldwide users. Collaborated with colleagues to review, develop and enhance business processes and procedures.

Led various teams in business process improvement and Finance function redesign. Here are some project examples: Redesigned the Finance organization of a consumer products company. Assessed the role of Finance within the company, organizational structure, career paths, key competencies, skills required, job content and reward systems. The redesign aligned the business processes with major changes in financial information systems, better positioned Finance to support the business units' aggressive financial goals, and broadened career opportunities for Finance staff. Redesigned Finance function processes and implemented Financial Shared Services organizations using best practices. Led the Accounts Payable and T&E teams in redesigning business processes in tandem with a PeopleSoft Financials implementation at a communications equipment company. Led the change management and transition planning for a PeopleSoft Financials implementation at a consumer products company. Addressed the value proposition, organization change, training, communications, rewards, job design. Clients included Bausch & Lomb, Dell, Harris Corp, Honeywell, International Flavors & Fragrances, Procter & Gamble.

Tokyo, Jp

Financial and operational audits

Business process re-engineeringActivity based costingFinancial audits of manufacturing and financial companies

Mba, Management Of Organizations & Marketing

Bs, Accounting