Sandy Noonan
Senior Accounting Manager
In her role as Senior Accounting Manager, Sandy manages all finance functions for ARCH Consultants including comprehensive financial support, analysis and coordination across the organization. In addition to the firm accounting responsibilities, she serves on internal and external project teams for major development projects. She oversees budgeting, CIP and financial reporting for internal teams and external stakeholders, including participation in bond draw requests and related financial documentation. Sandy collaborates on various business development initiatives to contribute to the company’s continued growth.
Prior to joining ARCH, Sandy accumulated over 15 years of extensive experience in financial analysis roles in pharmaceutical and consumer markets. She served as Associate Director of Portfolio and Decision Analysis at Searle Pharmaceuticals, where her experience included leading a financial analysis group. In this role, Sandy participated in cross-functional teams to provide strategic and financial analysis to support R&D portfolio optimization. She also served as liaison at Pfizer, ensuring financial projections and key initiatives of co-marketed/co-developed product platform were consistent between the partner companies.
In addition, she held the role of Associate Director of Business and Development Analysis, where she was responsible for detailed financial analysis of business opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions, in-licensing and out-licensing opportunities, joint ventures and other business opportunities. Sandy has also worked in Technical Operations finance, managing the accounting and finance functions of the chemical manufacturing operations.
Prior to her pharmaceutical experience, Sandy worked in operational and cost accounting positions at consumer goods companies, including Alberto Culver and Swift Eckrich, where she led the cost accounting process and worked with manufacturing operations personnel to identify manufacturing finance process improvements, providing detailed analyses of manufacturing variances to management.
Education
Sandy received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of South Florida and her Master of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from DePaul University. She also received training and is certified in Decision Analysis from the Strategic Decisions Group.