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Supervise a multi-level team of 13 employees, managing expense budgets, position control/staffing and accounts payable for the New Jersey Judiciary.Lead the coordination and development of the annual Judiciary budget, quarterly spending plans and regular forecasts, and oversee communications with the Office of Management and Budget.Provide financial support and analysis for varied projects, including contract negotiations, staffing model development, and vicinage initiative funding.Implement and maintain financial and operational controls, reviewing and approving all fund transfer requests.Monitor and report on statewide staffing levels and composition, and perform salary analyses and projections. Review all staffing requests, recommending and assigning position numbers as necessary.Perform all Central Office accounts payable functions, including payments to vendors and state agencies, as well as employee travel reimbursements.

Provided complete financial support for the Retail Marketing organization, leading a team of over 30 Finance professionals located across multiple geographic locations. Responsibilities included business planning and forecasting, reporting and analysis, budgeting and tracking, expense and force controls, cost reduction efforts, and executive presentation preparation.Partnered with the Product Marketing team to develop advertising programs and promotional plans that maximized revenue generation and customer growth/retention. Oversaw in-house system that reviewed, verified and paid each advertising and media bill, eliminating duplicate/incorrect payments and controlling cash flows.Led the financial integration of the MCI residential and small business segments into Verizon, developing effective tracking, reporting and control mechanisms.Developed and implemented several Finance team restructuring plans, achieving cost and force reductions while ensuring uninterrupted financial support during and after downsizing periods. Provided full compliance support for the Marketing and Engineering organizations, including management of internal audits, partnering with business operations teams to coordinate, develop and implement corrective actions, coordinating training activities, and developing annual risk assessments.

Provided comprehensive financial support for Operations, Engineering, Human Resources and Finance organizations, including business planning and forecasting, budgeting and tracking, expense/force controls, and cost reduction efforts.Developed, implemented, and continually enhanced an integrated resource allocation model, used during the business planning process, to optimally and accurately allocate available expense and force resources, based on business forecasts and service requirements.Performed tracking, reporting, benchmarking and analysis of operational efficiency metrics, including all installation visits, maintenance dispatches, job productivity levels, and repair center call volumes.Led teams of Finance professionals, spread throughout multiple geographic locations.

Managed all financial aspects of several Regions, including planning, budgeting, tracking and reporting on $2B in expense, $1B in capital expenditures, and 37,000 employees.Led teams of up to 85 people, responsible for budget development, analysis and reporting, accounts payable administration, volume and productivity analysis and reporting, general capital administration, purchasing controls, and force planning and tracking.Partnered with Operations leadership teams, covering the entire Bell Atlantic footprint, to coordinate the development and financial execution of regional business plans.Prepared presentation materials for weekly financial reviews, as well as monthly book close meetings, budget review sessions and staff meetings.

Coordinated the development and operation of a geographically-based financial reporting/cost accounting system, which provided financial information to the NYNEX-NY market areas and strategic business units. This required the use of mainframe and PC-based systems, constant interaction with local Operations contacts, and diverse financial analysis projects.Served as the subject matter expert for several products tracked by the PROFITS system, which produced product-level financial information. This involved working with Product Management and other Marketing personnel.Performed detailed analyses required to determine the financial advantages/disadvantages of New York Telephone debt refinancings.