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West Sacramento, California

West Sacramento, California

Sacramento, California Area

• Lead business case development for proposed internal projects, directly contributing to the strategic planning process, and spearheads large-scale, cross-functional initiatives; responsible for assessment of opportunities, risks and returns on investments, planning roll out of initiatives including strategic and business planning, and ensure key business objectives are executed. • Oversee larger-scale focused on improving performance, financial gains, customer satisfaction and compliance; provides strategic and policy guidance to maximize effective implementation and ensuring outcomes. • Organizes work teams, identifying participants, developing project plan, managing team productivity, leading meetings, and creating supporting documentation; performs analysis of data, workflows, policies, procedures, organization of staff, and professional development needs to execute projects. • Partner with other manager in project facilitation, analysis, process mapping, brain-storming, and project management.

Sacramento, California Area

Support internal strategic planning processes by creating and analyzing projects spend reports, developing business cases for proposals, and lead financial actions including preparing invoices for payment and reconciling projects for audit and final closure for multiple projects totaling over $26M. Partner with Finance and Accounting teams to reconcile variances, expenses, and invoices, lead month end closure, compiling reports to finalize books; allow for quick and accurate reporting, while maintaining contact with stakeholders to provide updated information. Develops financial process modeling and strategic planning for department projects, analyses of actual expenses, forecasted costs, and budgets; provides recommendations to management to limit the impact of requests. Prepares and manages creation of financial statements, cost analysis, financial studies, return on investment reports, and budgets; provide ongoing oversight of project metrics, costs, and timelines to ensure completion within stated requirements. Collaborated with company Directors to create AOP and forecasts for over $260M in projects; prepare financial analyses for executives on high-level presentations.Contributed to special projects by creating multi-million dollar business use cases, presented them for executive approval, partnering with project managers to ensure budget adherence, assisting in project audits, and deliver financial updates to company leadership; projects included Provider Directory Improvement Program, Pharmacy Authorizations and Operations Systems upgrade, and Open Enrollment Readiness project. Chosen by management to be part of the team involved in assisting the merging of Centene and Health Net; lead the updates and combining of multiple finance systems and updating and implementing related processes. Promoted due to history successfully leading complex projects and experience with advanced Planning and Financial Analyst skill sets.

Sacramento, California Area

Led management of vendor contracts, quotes, and statements of work and submission of purchase requisitions and partner with employees on purchases; create invoice entries in SAP software and assist in month-end closures with accruals, variance, and inventory reports. Provided financial analysis for $20M operating plan, analyzed actual and forecasted costs; successfully lowered budget and actual variances, greatly improved tracking of large mailing costs, and utilized improved data sets in vendor contract negotiations to lower costs. Liaison for materials, equipment, software, and labor vendors, reconciled accounts and updated invoice and payment processes; new systems eliminated calls, improved payment times, and brought department in compliance with regulations. Department rep for Sarbanes-Oxley audits, working with Deloitte to provide reports and budget analyses utilizing multiple internal resources; enabled company to successfully pass all audits.Led inventory administration, reconciling all materials related to marketing and mailing projects, accounted for all received shipments, and inventoried remaining materials. Liaison between internal Sourcing department and corporate leadership, gathering needed information to compile and analyze metrics, actuals, and forecasts, process expenses, and oversee contracts. Developed plan for mailing annual letters to 600,000 members, outlined, tracked, and recorded expenses, and partnered with vendors to reduce costs; created easy to follow cost spreadsheets, presented findings to executives, and enabled $4M project to be completed on time and on budget. Converted budget into itemized database, collected data from managers and vendors, developed new expense and forecast models, and delivered findings to management. Spearheaded actions to sell business, developed new models to predict mailing costs for all existing members; developed mailer count, reduced costs, and provided zero interruption of service.

Sacramento, California Area

Participated in creation of annual budget, analyzed spending trends, partnered with internal teams to understand expenses, and applied proper accounting actions; developed plan that came within percentages points of actual, providing a great improvement over previous years. Developed three year strategic plan by working with internal clients to develop membership growth forecasts and predict related expenses; delivered findings to company Board, enabling them to make more accurate strategic decisions to expand market.Analyzed inventory flow to forecast mailing material usage, allowing for the development of updated open enrollment forecasts; determined material needed and reduced total waste.

Sacramento, California Area

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Insurance Risk Management