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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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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