Felicia Williams to serve as Chief Accounting Officer at Macy’s

Macy's has announced that Felicia Williams, currently its senior vice president for enterprise risk and internal audit, has been elected Executive Vice President, Controller and Enterprise Risk of the company and will serve as the corporation's Chief Accounting Officer, effective June 1, 2016. She will report to Karen Hoguet, CFO.

Williams, a 12-year Macy's veteran, will succeed EVP/Controller Joel Belsky, who retires effective May 31, 2016 after a 41-year career in management of corporate financial functions, including 36 years at Macy's and its predecessor companies.

Williams was named senior vice president for enterprise risk and internal audit in January 2014. Previously, she served as senior vice president for risk and financial services and as senior vice president for treasury and risk management since September 2008. She joined Macy's in 2004 as vice president for internal audit from Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. in Athens, Greece, where she was director of internal audit.

She began her career in 1994 as a commercial paper trader and money market analyst for the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta and was promoted to various positions in treasury, financial control and finance. Prior to Coca-Cola, Williams worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Arthur Andersen & Company.