NANCY W. ANDERSON
Summary
Experienced CPA with skills in financial reporting and analysis, general ledger, budgeting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, individual and corporate income tax returns, payroll tax returns, cash management, US and International regulatory reporting, internal controls and risk assessment. Excellent organizational and communication skills, and proficient using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Essbase, Adobe Acrobat, Workiva, SAP financial software, PeopleSoft general ledger, IGrafx, Tableau and Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI and Visio systems.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager ESG Data Governance, Legal
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
08.2021 - 03.2025
- Managed a team of external consultants and an expansive set of internal data owners to collect, analyze and report ESG data in various internal and external company communications and reports.
- Responsibilities included the following:
- Collaborated across a broad set of stakeholders to design and implement an ESG data governance framework that supported accurate, timely and relevant data for reporting needs.
- Performed annual risk assessment related to ESG data collection, reporting and compliance.
- Prepared and reviewed ESG disclosures for various reporting frameworks such as TCFD, GRI, SASB, CDP, CSRD, and IFRS.
- Served as a liaison between Legal, Finance and Operations to gather data and calculate metrics used in voluntary and regulatory ESG reporting.
- Developed automated workflow submission and approval tool for internal data collection and validation of ESG metrics.
Manager Business Analysis, Finance
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
01.2018 - 07.2021
- Responsibilities included financial and managerial reporting supporting month-end closing process, overseeing various reporting automation and process improvement efforts, and digital finance initiatives for major line of business.
- Transitioned multiple KPIs from manual Excel based models to an automated self-service visual dashboard. Led efforts to improve delivery timeliness of data needed to calculate KPIs from source systems.
- Coordinated user acceptance testing for transition of data warehouse information to a new platform.
- Developed and designed Tableau dashboards for executive reporting in areas such as project planning and KPI scorecard monitoring. This involved procuring, preparing, analyzing and validating data in preparation for input into Tableau.
- Served as a liaison with business units and Finance Center of Excellence team members to coordinate new processes and reporting needs. Reviewed, identified and communicated areas for process improvements to upper management. Authored desktop procedures, process narratives and process flow diagrams.
- Responsible for monthly preparation of customer revenue database that detailed booked revenue by customer and product. Involved combining multiple inconsistent data sets from across the organization. Project manager that led efforts to redesign and streamline this process using Teradata, Alteryx and Tableau solutions. Implemented new governance procedures around data sets that are key to this process.
Manager Process Engineering, Finance
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
08.2015 - 12.2017
- Led various types of business transformation efforts across multi-functional groups using Lean Six Sigma (LSS) improvement, design and agile methodologies. Coached green belts on business transformation practices and tools.
- Provided leadership on key projects designed to reduce expenses, improve business controls and increase communication across organizational lines of business.
- Managed and supported all aspects of LSS projects from inception through the realization phase.
- Coordinated project meetings and facilitated LSS Work-Out sessions.
- Provided project champions with status updates, issues, metrics and thorough project documentation using reporting applications such as Tableau.
- Conducted analytical analysis of large data sets using various tools such as Minitab, Microsoft SQL Server and Teradata.
Staff Consultant/Team Lead, Internal Auditing
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
11.2002 - 07.2015
- Managed teams of professional auditors reported audit results to management in verbal and written communications, recommended corrective action and suggested improvements that resulted in operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and increased revenue. Audit projects included the following:
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 internal control evaluations that involved reviewing management's documentation to ensure that it was properly supported and performing independent testing to determine whether the key financial controls identified by management were operating effectively.
- Financial statement audits of various international subsidiaries. Audit test work included trend analysis of income statement accounts, substantive testing of significant balance sheet accounts and reviews of the consolidation and revenue recognition processes.
- Audits of internal processes within the various major lines of business. These audits included (1) sales order processing and billing; (2) customer billing adjustments; (3) receivables management; (4) provisioning of video and data services; (5) offshore call center operations; (6) corporate investment management operations; and (7) Federal Universal Service Fund Surcharges.
Specialist-Tax Accounting, Corporate Tax
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
06.1999 - 10.2002
- Preparation and review of federal and state tax filing for several large subsidiaries. Special tax research projects in the areas of capital recovery and state taxation.
Manager – Tax and Auditing Services
01.1990 - 06.1999
- Various audit, tax and accounting positions
Education
BBA - Accounting
Millsaps College
Jackson, MississippiSkills
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Operations management
- Cross-functional team coordination
- Data analytics
- Organizational improvement
- Reporting management
- Project planning
- Budget management
- Analytical thinking
- Task prioritization
- Schedule management
Certification
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Fraud Examiner
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Timeline
Sr. Manager ESG Data Governance, Legal
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
08.2021 - 03.2025
Manager Business Analysis, Finance
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
01.2018 - 07.2021
Manager Process Engineering, Finance
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
08.2015 - 12.2017
Staff Consultant/Team Lead, Internal Auditing
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
11.2002 - 07.2015
Specialist-Tax Accounting, Corporate Tax
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
06.1999 - 10.2002
Manager – Tax and Auditing Services
01.1990 - 06.1999
BBA - Accounting
Millsaps College
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