Ronita Mathias
SVP - Corporate Finance
Verizon
Basking Ridge, NJ
With over 25 years of experience in the Communications industry, Ronita is a strong Finance Leader skilled in business operations, performance management, decision support, strategic planning, cost transformation, P&L management and leading and developing diverse teams. Ronita is a proven leader in driving business results, problem solving and a trusted partner engaged with the business to deliver improved shareholder value and customer service. She has built her career anchored in core values of integrity, respect, trust and operational excellence.
In her current role, SVP Corporate and Global Services Finance her scope of responsibilities include:
- Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (CFP&A), supporting ~$130B in Verizon revenue and ~$48B in margin, cash flow management, long and short term planning as well as CFO executive & governance financial presentations
- Spectrum, partnerships and rural wireless acquisitions
- Corporate Capital portfolio management of $17-18B including ROIC decisioning and overall governance.
- CFO for Verizon Global Services and Centrally Managed Services, providing end-to-end FP&A support to C-Suite, including CFO, CLO, CHRO, & CSO
Previously Ronita was the VP - Commercial Finance & Bus Dev for Verizon Consumer Group, covering 94M mobility and ~ 8M Home customers, and over 45k employees across the US. In this role, she is responsible for all financial assessment of strategic initiatives, Marketing value proposition across Mobile and Home, and Wholesale to enable critical decision support for commercial and operational investments, as well as delivering data driven insights around customer profitability and customer investment analysis to drive optimal ROI for the business. She was previously VP-Strategic Planning & Finance Operations responsible for reporting/analysis, short term and long term planning, Business intelligence and data analytics for VCG.
Ronita also spent several years on the Wireline side of the business and held various positions of increasing responsibility within Finance, such as Executive Director of Finance for Verizon’s Wireline Network Operations, lead for Verizon’s Consumer & Mass Business Revenue, Wireline Expense and Capital, National Operations, and Field Operation units. She started her career at GTE as an intern, then progressed through various Finance and Business Operations leadership roles.
In addition to her leadership experience in both wireline and Wireless businesses, her credentials include Certified Public Accountant license in NJ, Master’s in Business Economics from UM-St. Louis, as well as Master’s in Accounting from Seton Hall University. She has also participated in several leadership programs such as the Lead Ahead, Leadership Edge, Verizon LDP, Asian Development Leadership Initiative, and Building Executive Talent workshops and has served on various panels with SPICE, LEAP, etc.
A strong proponent of diversity and inclusion, Ronita is a founding member of the Verizon South-Asian Professionals Inspiring Corporate Excellence (SPICE) and currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for SPICE.