Carol Ramski Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for managing daily financial operations including month-end, financial reporting and analysis and accounts payable/receivables.

Behavioral Health/Addiction Facility.

Responsible for providing finance support including month-end, financial reporting, and budgeting. Managed billing/collection staff of three with dotted line responsibility for five offsite office managers. Coordinate special projects with third party payers yielding additional $200k on aged accounts.Department project lead, liaison with vendor and internal IT for system migrations. Directed dual-entity billing, adapted to new systems and reorganized teams amidst downsizing.Maintained collection rate over 60 % and days in AR under 60 for past five years.

Responsible for billing system upgrades including planning, testing, implementation and training of over 20 staff.Member of evaluation/implementation team during entity sale reorganization.Orchestrated department transition of 60 across 5 locations to new structure and systems. Developed front office and billing team procedures to promote consistency and collaboration.Assumed role of super-user for all system support, including computer troubleshooting and SQL report development.

Transitioned behavioral health to accrual-based reporting, developed director monthly financial packet, educated clinical managers on financial aspects of business, and interfaced with corporate finance.Prepared month-end journal entries, budgets, reconciliations and managed accounts receivable.

Performed bookkeeping and administrative functions utilizing QuickBooks.

Provides Financial Products And Services.

Responsible for downsizing and re-engineering Chicago finance functions and workflows.• Directed migration of management reporting system functions and interfaces from Chicago to San Francisco resulting in elimination of Chicago system and four analyst positions.• Reduced regulatory reporting by 20% and eliminated 15 positions as finance lead in combining legal entity accounting functions and converting Illinois and Florida subsidiaries to branches during significant downsizing.

Responsible for reporting and cost accounting support to Cash Management, Trade Services, and Trust business. Managed team of four.

Finance business liaison with IT to design and implement a new management reporting system.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, With Distinction, Accounting And Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting, Honors