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Provide executive leadership in:- Controllership. Ensuring accurate and timely historical financial information, assuring compliance with accounting standards of the profession, the Foundation, and HRSA, contributing to informed decision-making, and enforcing appropriate internal controls.- Operations and Treasury. Responsibly guarding, managing, and growing the Foundation's assets, ensuring sustainable financial health, reporting financial performance, leading and developing the team in its pursuit of excellence, and ensuring operational objectives are professionally accomplished (A/P, A/R, Payroll). - Economic Strategy and Forecasting. Identifying and reporting how the Foundation can capitalize on its strengths, forecasting economic trends and providing financial modeling to predict impacts on the Foundation, identifying through variance analyses areas that require performance improvements.

Assure informative reporting including development of monthly executive dashboard and supporting schedules for $100M healthcare entity. Analyze results and explain variances to standards. Develop annual budget and monthly forecasts identifying opportunities for improved financial performance. Enhance month-end close.

Supported Chief Financial Officer, Chief Medical Officer, and Vice-President of Operations in this $140M unit, with budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis and reporting. Managed team negotiating clinical trial budgets and contracts with 200 pharmaceutical companies. Total span of control included 12 business professionals.• Supported expansion with comprehensive, mutually beneficial business cases and contracts:o Increasing research revenue at average annual rate of 30% for 3 yearso Establishing research programs in Denver, Kansas City, Austin, and Manchester, England• Renegotiated and standardized fees charged to pharmaceutical companies:o Increasing per-patient fees 4.5% on averageo Contributing to 380 basis-point improvement to budgeted EBITDA• Converted manual clinical trial budgeting process to electronic, deploying integrated CTMS:o Implementing new software and ensuring continuous improvement, with no loss in productivity and no negative impact on customerso Leading eventually to 50% FTE reduction in downstream processes• Developed talented, driven, engaged team of Finance professionals, transforming “most dysfunctional team” into “most admired”

Directed all accounting and finance functions of this $60M unit that included 2 business locations: Rochester, NY, and Milan, Italy. Total span-of-control included a team of 13. Accountable for financial performance, SOX compliance, conformance to GAAP, product costing, and all FP&A functions.• Improved financial reporting and accountability, installed cost-accounting system, developed fully allocated product-line P&L, implemented comprehensive quoting model; contributing to 420 basis-point, year-over-year improvement in profitability.

Monitored and impacted top-to-bottom income statement performance of this $65M contract manufacturer, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost accounting, general accounting, fixed-asset accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll.• Converted privately held company to corporate division status with appropriate GAAP and SOX standards and controls, introducing robust budgeting and forecasting tools:o Achieving full compliance with corporate standards within 6 monthso Ensuring no recurring audit comments after 9 months• Developed comprehensive quote model that addressed both profitability and competitiveness, improving profitability and identifying products for which company could not be competitive• Analyzed profitability for each customer/product line using self-developed, cost-driver-based assessment, developing plans for underperforming products, and negotiating increased fees:o Recovering costs, increasing profitability, and stabilizing customer serviceo Achieving corporate-benchmark status for locally-developed model and process• Managed divestiture of division by Delphi and acquisition by Sparton, accomplishing efficient due diligence, achieving full transparency, and converting systems and processes seamlessly, with no interruption of production or customer service

Charged with accounting, finance, and human resources functions of this $350M, multi-site, OEM manufacturer• Restored confidence in business practices and financial results, discovering and correcting erroneous and/or fraudulent accounting practices, implementing consistent HR policies, and enabling full compliance with corporate standards within 4 months while achieving exemplary audit rating within 1 year• Administered divestiture of 1 of 2 Delphi sites in Oshawa, improving overall profitability through sale of unprofitable segment

Coordinated a team for the deployment of SAP software and processes to multiple sites of one of Delphi’s divisions. Threads of responsibility included Project Management, Communications, IT Site Readiness, Organizational Change Management, Software Development, Security, Training, Data Cleansing and Conversion, Testing, and Cutover. - Implemented within 1 year, SAP's full functionality at all sites within Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems' $3B division