LAURE L. BOLLA
Orlando
Summary
Accomplished executive at the intersection of finance and business transformation, specializing in high-stakes projects that drive profitable growth and efficiency. Expertise in crafting comprehensive financial plans and investor communications that align operational performance with stakeholder expectations. Led the successful implementation of SAP’s 1ERP platform, integrating multiple financial systems into a single source of truth. Pioneered data analytics initiatives and AI adoption, elevating finance from a support role to a strategic asset. Known for problem-solving acumen, innovative thinking, and strong communication skills. Experienced in developing, mentoring, and motivating high-performance teams.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President - Global Finance Operations
Verizon Communications Inc
Orlando
11.2025 - Current
- Directed payment operations for Global Finance, which included accounts payable, payroll, sales commissions, and cost assurance, while also leading Bill to Cash operations for enterprise, wholesale, and public sector businesses.
- Collaborated to Drive $1B in cash flow improvement thru DPO/DSO management to include partnering with Sourcing to extend payment terms and with Sales to improve collections
- Collaborated with sales teams to optimize collections, driving cash flow improvement.
- Partnered with sourcing to extend payment terms, increasing financial flexibility for operations.
- Transforming our operations with deployment of AI tools and technology (99% touchless A/P, Cost per payroll payee <$1.00, $600M in cost assurance are a few wins)
- Deployed AI tools to transform operations, achieving 99% touchless accounts payable processing.
- Reduced payroll costs to less than $1.00 per payee while ensuring efficiency.
- Secured $600 million in cost assurance as a result of operational improvements.
Vice President FP&A - Global Shared Services
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
Basking Ridge
04.2023 - 11.2025
- Led team responsible for financial operations, overseeing budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis and capital allocation activities and collaborating with senior leaders to achieve business goals and financial targets
- Partnered with supply chain to enhance free cash flow by $3 billion through inventory management.
- Negotiated $1 billion increase in operating margins over five years, focusing on wireless device protection.
- Achieved $800 million in operating cost efficiencies via real estate optimization and workforce strategy.
- Directed multi-year initiative to implement integrated planning and reporting strategy using Oracle EPM and Google Cloud.
- Restructured finance team to strengthen business partnerships and develop talent growth opportunities.
- Restructured finance team to strengthen business partnerships and foster talent development.
Executive Director, Business Strategy & Digital Transformation
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
Basking Ridge
05.2018 - 04.2023
- Digital transformation leader responsible for transforming Finance to drive effectiveness and efficiency.
- Scope of responsibilities includes leading a team of 100+ to design and implement a multi-year transformation plan across Finance.
- Established transformation program framework and structure, including global process owners (GPOs), program management and governance office, finance centers of excellence, talent development, change management, and communications programs to drive organizational alignment.
- Partnered with Executive leadership to translate future opportunities into initiatives that enable world-class effectiveness and efficiency.
- Simplified and optimized the future state finance and IT ecosystem by implementing SAP's new S4 Hana platform, consolidating Verizon's six ledgers into one.
- Delivered real-time, self-service financial results reporting and improved financial measures and metrics through standardization, centralization, and implementation of best practices in process, technology, data, and talent.
- Created single source of truth 'data lake,' self-service reporting strategy, and centralized planning platform leveraging tools like Qlik, ThoughtSpot, Oracle EPM, SAP ERP, and Anaplan to enhance data accessibility.
- Introduced a digital acceleration hub, ensuring the Finance team's adoption of Visualization tools, RPA/RDA, NLG/NLP, OCR, workflow automation, processing mining, and predictive/machine learning solutions.
Executive Director/Director, Corporate FP&A
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
Basking Ridge
12.2010 - 05.2018
- Oversaw vital financial functions, Consolidated Financial results, Quarterly Outlooks and multi-year financial plans, target setting working with the various business units to ensure achievement of Financial Plans
- Crafted detailed presentations for the board and leadership, supporting CFO initiatives on investor relations.
- Formulated cash flow sensitivity models for strategic share buybacks and special dividends across one- and three-year projections.
- Revised internal cash flow reporting methods to enhance engagement with ratings agencies.
- Led finance transformation by establishing a data science learning program to boost team skills.
- Implemented predictive modeling techniques to refine forecasting precision.
- Streamlined business processes to reduce cycle times; introduced real-time insights
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Centenary College
Hackettstown, NJBachelor of Arts - Accounting
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TXData Sciences Certification Program -
Seton Hall
NJSkills
- Financial analysis
- Cash flow optimization
- Budget management
- Strategic planning
- Global Payment Operations
- Billing, Cash Collections
- Cost assurance
- Investor relations
- Mergers and acquisitions experience
- Data analytics
- Finance transformation
- SAP S4 Hana
- Oracle EPM
- Effective communication
- AI deployment
- High performance Teams
Timeline
Vice President - Global Finance Operations
Verizon Communications Inc
11.2025 - Current
Vice President FP&A - Global Shared Services
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
04.2023 - 11.2025
Executive Director, Business Strategy & Digital Transformation
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
05.2018 - 04.2023
Executive Director/Director, Corporate FP&A
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
12.2010 - 05.2018
Master of Business Administration -
Centenary College
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting
Texas Tech University
Data Sciences Certification Program -
Seton Hall