Brian Nelson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Serve as a strategic business partner to the functional leadership teams in the Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions (CSCD) business unit.
• Manage team of financial and auditing/compliance professionals responsible for the budgeting and forecasting process
• Contributes to the multi-year strategic planning process by providing financial support, collaborative insights on business strategy,

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed Health Division’s internal cash flow from operations (including movements in working capital) monthly reporting and analysis
• Supported Wolters Kluwer Corporate reporting processes by consolidating monthly financial results, annual budgets and three year development plans for all Health business units
• Aggregated new sales opportunities & renewals outlook along with commentary on a monthly basis across Health Division

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed team of financial analysts responsible for expense management and budgeting process of $200+ million Infrastructure (Servers, Network, Storage, End User Computing, Security) and Systems Delivery organization
• Lead all Global Wolters Kluwer analytics related to technology spend in support of complex financial projects and major initiatives
• Functioned as a business partner to the Technology leadership team and Global Divisions across Wolters Kluwer
• Support included monthly financial reporting, analysis, month end close, annual budgeting and three-year business development

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed team of twenty financial/data analysts responsible for expense management and budgeting process of $800 million Operations department (Contact Centers, IT Help Desk, Print Centers, Policy Processing, Imaging.
• Provided leadership and consultation in the areas of forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, measurement, business case development, capital management and internal controls
• Supported a multi-year effort to drive significant cost reductions through Continuous Improvement, Process Efficiency, Demand Reduction and Automation
• Major focus on developing team in financial analytics beyond traditional expense management practices

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed team of nine financial analysts responsible for expense management and budgeting process of $400 million Infrastructure Services department (Servers, Network, Storage, Raised Floor, End User Computing, etc.)
• Provided oversight of multi-year planning and annual budgeting process
• Prepared monthly and quarterly reporting for leadership within Allstate Technology and Business Partners
• Collaborated with Allstate Technology's executive leadership to develop strategic financial analysis in order to increase transparency into business unit allocations and reduce costs without adversely affecting service.

Deerfield, IL

• Solely managed financial reporting of $300 million budget for Field Technology and Infrastructure IT departments
• Developed and executed monthly financial reporting (budget vs. actual, variance analysis, trend analysis) and provided ongoing financial analysis for various projects including point-of-sale refresh strategy
• Created budgets for assigned areas and ensured accurate charge-back methodologies were applied to major business units

Northbrook, IL

• Managed team of six Financial Analysts responsible for overall expense management and budgeting process for $400 million Infrastructure Services department
• Collaborated with ATO’s executive leadership to develop strategic financial analysis in order to increase efficiency and transparency, reduce costs, and overcome issues
• Performed run-rate, gap and variance analysis and reconciliations on historical, current data and forward looking analysis and recommendations

Northbrook, IL

• Completed in-depth analysis on expense drivers and provided consulting on courses of action to ensure optimal expense control for $150 million data center hardware/software assets
• Successfully partnered with ATO’s senior leadership to develop expense reduction strategies and solutions including a project to reduce Allstate’s data center footprint from five to two data centers
• Assessed historical trend reporting and analysis in order to improve future forecasting with appropriate distribution back to business units

Northbrook, IL

• Provided macro level analysis and communicated actual expense results for entire technology department
• Facilitated annual budgeting process, prepared, evaluated and reviewed overall budget with ATO Finance management
• Participated and led teams to improve division’s internal processes, training programs, and culture

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Installed software on servers, designed disk images, and also oversaw all technical problems that occurred at University computer labs