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Los Angeles, California

• Provide executive leadership and team direction for financial and decision support operations across 20 facilities. • Spearhead the development and implementation of CostFlex cost-accounting database and software nationwide, achieving full adoption within 9 months.• Offer guidance to support data validation within Finance, IT, Financial Operations, and Decision Support functions.• Initiate national data integration and standardization efforts, leading to ~10% improvement in quality or reduction in manpower/financial costs.• Liaise with the legal department to manage risks related to national and state regulations; demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of requirements, changes, and updates in a dynamic field.• Orchestrate the creation and standardization of corporate cost-accounting policies and definitions.• Craft a standard contribution margin model and develop service-line margin reporting standards.• Oversee the production of quarterly contribution margin and service-line reports, including ad-hoc reporting.• Execute and evaluate the success of selected strategies based on defined organizational goals and performance metrics.• Conduct analyses of the general ledgers from each facility to determine where cost components reside, reclassify GL if necessary, and distribute costs across respective departments.

• Created a Decision Support Department for implementation across 7 facilities, with responsibility for financial reporting, analytics, and ad-hoc support.• Bridged communications between locations to align objectives and standardize expectations.• Transformed cost accounting standards and best practices for the Southern California region to achieve streamlined reporting and to better compare service lines across multiple hospitals in the region, allowing operators to make informed business decisions.• Supervised productivity reporting for the Southern California region and devised/enforced productivity standards.• Coordinated the recruitment and hiring of high-performing employees with the required qualifications and experience.• Delivered training for new and existing analysts on daily, monthly, and quarterly financial and operations reports.• Informed strategic planning and financial decision-making across the Southern California region through streamlined reports.

• Established the Decision Support Department for a local facility, with the aim of delivering financial reporting, analytics, and ad-hoc support for leadership.• Generated statistical reports and conducted analyses across administration, operations, and financial functions; assessed metrics related to hospital occupancy/throughput and KPIs such as ADC, discharges, admissions, ER visits, labor productivity, supply/pharmaceutical spend, cost-accounting/contribution margin, and accounts receivable stratification.• Produced and submitted reports reflecting relevant metrics on a daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual/ad-hoc basis.• Conceptualized and introduced a labor tracking tool and labor standards for daily productivity reporting; drove a reduction of FTEs/Adj ADC from 3.8 to 2.8-2.9.• Contributed to business development efforts by trending physician length of stay, admissions, surgeries, and profitability.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism