Steve Rivera is currently a Worldwide Senior Director of Financial Compliance and Procedures Group. He joined Johnson & Johnson in April 2005.
Rivera's responsibilities include ensuring worldwide accounting compliance of business transactions that J&J enters into in the areas of R&D collaborations, business combinations and similar types of investments. He works extensively with the Corporate and Affiliate Groups that are involved in these transactions. His work also includes providing guidance in technical accounting areas, accounting policy and interfacing with our external accountants on the accounting of business transactions that cross over all the three major business segments at J&J – Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices & Diagnostic and Consumers segments.
Prior to his current function, Rivera worked in the following organizations. In 1984, he began his career in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand. In 1990, Rivera joined General Public Utilities as manager of their accounting research department. In 1993, he was offered an opportunity to join AT&T, which in 1994 spun off Lucent, where he was the Senior Manager of Financial Reporting overseeing and coordinating all the quarterly and year-end SEC filings, earnings releases and Annual Reports.
In 2000, Rivera joined Aventis Pharmaceuticals as the Finance Director involved in various aspects of managing and directing all US GAAP reporting and technical financial accounting issues which include developing new accounting policies and procedures for the company. In 2004, he joined Dendrite International as the Assistant Corporate Controller, overseeing the operations of the accounting and reporting groups, as well as managing all technical accounting matters.
Throughout his career in private industry, Rivera has always had a significant role interfacing with external accountants for all accounting and reporting matters.
Rivera received his Bachelors of Science in Accounting from St. John’s University. He is certified public accountant in New York and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Rivera is also active in chairing the Accounting and Financial Reporting subcommittees of the PhRMA and Device industry groups and a member of CCR-FEI. He is married with four children and resides in Belle Mead, New Jersey.