Dean Henke Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Deliver decision analysis support and recommendations to Studios (Atomic Mass Games, Catan Studio, Fantasy Flight Games, Unexpected Games and Zman Games) and Shared Service operations.• Develop financial analyses, models and reports to support operational initiatives.• Identify and improve efficiency and reporting accuracy through process improvement.• Partner with Accounting and budget managers to ensure that expenses are recognized in the appropriate business unit, cost center and account.• Month-end close process: variance analysis, reclass JEs and management reporting.• D365 - Business Central report creation and maintenance.• Partner with IT in the creation/modification of Power BI reports.• Weekly cash receipts/disbursements, analysis and reporting. 8 week cash receipts/disbursement forecast.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Deliver decision analysis support and recommendations to warehouse/fulfillment and card production operations.• Analyze customer operations margin and gross margin, identify customers that are under performing and the reason(s).• Enhanced ERP gross margin report data with actionable criteria, summarize data in a pivot table, identify production trends with low margin and recommend changes to increase margin.• Review/update cost center/department labor/overhead cost standards.• Month-end close process: reconciliation, prepare journal entries, variance analysis and management reporting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Delivered decision analysis support and recommendations to back office operations.• Forecasted full-time equivalent (FTE) staffing based on sales volume / forecast, multiplying premiums collected / reconciled and lowering time to release sales commissions.• Enhanced premium variance report data with actionable criteria and summarized data in a pivot table, reducing time to review by 50% and annual staffing savings of approximately 0.5 FTE or $27K.• Reconciled select customer premium deduction backup data, strengthening customer service and boosting premiums collected by over $350K.• Analyzed external / internal MS excel skills gap, design training, and improved customer service, credited with saving / retaining relationships of several key customers.• Served as advanced excel subject matter expert (SME), expanding external / internal customer satisfaction, reducing time to reconcile payment, and shrinking time to service customer data requests.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Delivered decision analysis support and recommendations to multiple non-patient care departments.• Designed excel report to record actual versus budget spend (by line, vendor, invoice) for 3 construction projects totaling $23.7M, enhancing visibility to project spend progress and lowering time to review data. • Developed business case analysis to revise Materials Management staffing model, increasing efficiency by 7% or $324K annually.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Delivered decision analysis support and recommendations to 10 primary care and 1 specialty care clinic.Prepared month / year-end close processes, analysis, journal entries, and key performance indicators (KPI’s).

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Accounting And Finance

Minneapolis, MN

Associate Of Arts - Aa

Transfer to Augsburg College

Education record

Spring Lake Park, MN