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Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Oh, Us

New Albany, Ohio

• Oversee successful migration of Operations for recently acquired ProvderPay business from Utah to Ohio, including training and development of entirely new 8-member staff. o Functions include: pass-through of $3.5B annual pharmaceutical patient claims from insurance providers to pharmacies, invoicing monthly program fees, and system audits.• Create, monitor, and communicate business metrics to key stakeholders.• Work with internal departments to improve processes and quality of service to 1,100 customers.• Implement departmental standard operating procedures.

Dublin, Ohio

CONTRIBUTIONS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Implemented reporting of sales and gross profit by kit bill of materials (historical reporting was limited to just finished goods).• Streamlined Medical Device Excise Tax calculation for all U.S. manufacturing plants, which improved timeliness and accuracy of this $23M annual liability.• Spearheaded $3M annual domestic manufacturing tax savings by implementing plant-specific COGS reporting instead of continuing with predecessors easier, yet more conservative, assumptions.• Led the financial integration on acquisitions of two privately-owned manufacturers.• Transformed distributor rebate claim function from administrative to value-add via the following:o Migrated all roles from Customer Care in Chicago to a new Finance team in Dublin OH.o Led planning and execution of 350% volume expansion from major product-line acquisition, which included streamlining and automating the most laborious aspects.o Transitioned remaining administrative duties to an offshore team.o Converted onshore team’s focus to remediating what had been $1.8M/year of losses from distributor pricing errors.CORE RESPONSIBILITIES• Planned and forecast $1.2B revenue and $0.3B gross profit for custom kit manufacturing division, which was comprised of 3 plants (2 U.S. and 1 non-U.S.) that produced over 1,000 different kits per year.• Informed business leaders by identifying risks, opportunities, and unusual items uncovered through monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ad hoc analyses.• Supported sales and marketing teams by identifying opportunities to improve customer and product profitability.• Collaborated continually with the separate Cost Accounting team to understand impacts of changes in raw material, labor, and overhead costs.• Validated customer pricing on $3B annual kits and 10 other categories of surgical products manufactured by Cardinal Health but sold through 300 external distributors.

Dublin, Ohio

CONTRIBUTIONS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Managed SAP implementation.• Recovered $18M lost revenue on non-invoiced drop-shipments and established new procedures and guidelines to prevent a recurrence.• Improved Working Capital and reduced losses on billing disputes with the company’s largest customer.• Recognized for consistently going above and beyond in supporting peers as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on 20 financial applications and hundreds of processes in a highly matrixed organization.• Facilitated out-sourcing of the entire division’s vendor returns to a 3rd-Party Processor.CORE RESPONSIBILITIES• • Oversaw all accounting responsibilities for $100B division consisting of 30 warehouses.• Partnered with 11 Regional Controller teams in understanding day-to-day financial performance.• Coached and developed approximately 60 total staff over 6.5 years, 15 of whom subsequently became managers.• Ensured compliance with IRS, SEC, GAAP, SOX404, and internal policies.• Presented monthly MD&A to Senior Leaders.• Approved all balance sheet account reconciliations and ensured timely remediation of concerns.• Main contact on internal and external audits.

Dublin, Ohio

- Piloted $0.5M annual synergies in transitioning work from regional offices to our corporate team.- Automated initiation of returns to vendors which reduced out-of-policy denials by 80%.- Controller (Acting) for an acquired pharmaceutical distributor’s 4 warehouses and headquarters until the business was consolidated into pre-existing Cardinal Health facilities.- Determined and recorded semi-annual physical inventory results for 30 pharmaceutical warehouses.- Trained and led staff of 1 Supervisor and 6 Regional Accountants.

Wheeling, West Virginia

- Accountable for the entire budget and forecast for three pharmaceutical distribution centers with $4B aggregate annual revenue.- Authorized capital and operating expenditures, customer pricing/rebates, sales, use and property taxes.- Convinced Warehouse Operations to reduce annual expenses $250k by replenishing refrigerated gel packs monthly instead of weekly.- Oversaw financial aspects of semi-annual physical inventory.- Negotiated and approve customer and supplier settlements and rebates.- Handled payroll for 300 employees when the regular administrator was unavailable.- Trained and led staff of 1 Manager, 1 Senior Analyst, 3 Analysts, and 2 Coordinators.