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St Louis, Missouri, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

CIn this role, I gather and evaluate data and key performance metrics to develop reports for strategic planning, forecasting, and executive-level decision making aligned with ongoing business goals. This includes creating monthly division incentive reports for HR administrators, commission reports by business unit and sales group, monthly third-party performance reports on sold units and sales revenue, and accounts payable versus accrual reporting for third-party channel and enterprise partners.Some key accomplishments are:  Improving employee relations and minimizing grievances by developing dispute analysis to identify and mitigate trends. Transforming the commission operations report to improve compensation forecasting and performance incentives.  Creating reports for executive management to assist in corporate decision-making.  Receiving the 2018 Company Appreciation Award for taking over compilation duties and creating reporting tools for the Charter Rewards Network.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

In this position, I developed annual strategic, operational, and bi-annual capital budgets to support hospital leadership while completing month-end reports, including utilization and volumes/statistics. I evaluated annual hospital surveys on patient and readmission metrics, audited surgery charges, and conducted system charge testing after price changes and system upgrades. I was recognized as the hospital-wide ad hoc data mining specialist, overseeing projects including peak time studies, line item supply trend analysis, supply mix, cost per case, and labor productivity.Some key achievements are:  Saving $120K by identifying and resolving surgery system billing errors due to inventory changes, resulting in receiving public recognition from the hospital president.  Eliminating unnecessary expenses by identifying and reducing redundancies and waste as finance lead. Improving labor productivity and reducing expenses by conducting monthly financial coaching sessions with assigned clinical managers.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

In this position, I managed allocation of $50M in expenses and up to $50M in annual grant awards and revenues while preparing faculty financial and personnel sourcing reports for monthly grant and budget review meetings. I prepared strategic planning and salary evaluation models for principal investigators and managers and coordinated departmental space survey and analysis to determine facilities and administration rates. I also handled auditing personnel records, grant sourcing, submitting visas, and maintaining the organizational chart.Some highlights are:  Improving employee tracking, payroll, and benefits administration by creating HR reports on turnover, new hire, and current headcount. Increasing efficiency by using SQL to conduct weekly updates of the organizational chart. Enhancing financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting by meeting with PI’s monthly to review spend and investigate discrepancies.

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

-In this role, I developed capital and operating budgets and accurately prepared monthly landlord rent schedules for all US and Canadian sites. I managed subtenants by creating receiving schedules, distributing invoices, calculating common area charges, and performing annual reconciliation calculations. I also conducted cash flow and market cost analysis, and created ad hoc reports on expenses, trends, cash, and lease contract details. In addition, I audited operating statements, resolved lease discrepancies, and created real estate and capital purchase orders and prepared monthly financial reports, investigated discrepancies, updated forecasts, and presented the results to executives and stakeholders.Some key achievements are:  Achieving $35K in annual savings through operating statement analysis and enforcing lease cap provisions. Coming in 5.8% under budget in 2012 by creating a bottom-up budget process to prepare annual operating and capital plans for facilities and real estate.  Improving communications as primary contact for landlords, property managers, brokers, vendors, attorneys, and subtenants on lease, project, maintenance contract and rent issues.

- Update and maintain broker commission system by entering information on new individual and group policies and updating commission rates and broker information at renewal. - Process Medicare broker payments, renewals, cancellations and dis-enrollments using IDX reports and Microsoft Access on a bimonthly basis including pulling any ad hoc reports as requested to audit payments and maintaining all broker and up-line agency information in the database.- Create journal entries to correct items on the balance sheet and income statements to ensure expenses are charged to the proper accounts.- Create and process broker commission account reconciliations.- Process PeopleSoft broker commission, claims and trades payable payment runs. - Code and enter payment requests, EFT files, W-2’s and collections.- Update balance sheets, budget reports and income statements. - Collaborate on bonus team to calculate and audit broker bonus incentives programs.

- Event and travel coordinator for meetings, seminars, conferences and public events.- Coordinate National Safety Council meeting with more than 200 participants. - Convert over 100 legacy training packages and presentations to Word and PowerPoint including updating flow and relevance without compromising content to ensure accuracy, professionalism, flow and aesthetic appeal.- Perform general office duties including answering safety hotline and ordering office supplies, safety equipment, training materials and videos to ensure availability.- Maintain and update out-of-office schedules and perform group time reporting duties.- Report accident and input per OSHA standards including querying weekly ad hoc reports on personal injury and auto accidents for investigative and statistical purposes. - Compile and edit training manuals and job aids.

Mba, Finance

Diploma Of Accounting, Accounting

Ba, Interdisciplinary Studies-Business