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Robert S. Collins
Assistant Controller
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Robert (Bob) Collins was elected Assistant Controller in May 2009. In this capacity, Bob is responsible for Alcoa’s global financial accounting policies, serves as a primary liaison with Alcoa’s external auditors, and oversees several financial functions including corporate consolidations, external reporting, merger and acquisitions, and SOX compliance.
Bob joined Alcoa in February 2005 as Director, Financial Transactions and Policy and was responsible for managing and providing financial accounting support to the global merger and acquisitions, and divestitures activities of Alcoa. He was the lead finance representative for a number of Alcoa’s large recent transactions, including the 2008 divestiture of the Packaging and Consumer business. Bob’s role was expanded in July 2006 to also include being responsible for Alcoa’s global financial accounting policies.
Prior to joining Alcoa, Bob spent fourteen years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the firm’s Pittsburgh and New York offices. From March 2000 through January 2005, he worked in PwC’s Transaction Services practice in New York, where as a Director he provided merger and acquisition advisory services to both financial and strategic buyers. Bob specialized in pre- and post-acquisition due diligence services, and led multi-disciplinary teams (including tax, human resource, and information technology specialists) for transactions with values ranging from $25 million to over $1 billion. Bob joined PwC in 1991 and spent the first nine years of his career in the audit practice in Pittsburgh.
He is a CPA, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Master of Science in Accounting at the University of Virginia in 1989 and 1991, respectively.
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