Deborah Brunner Email & Phone Number

*Successful and competent finance professional with expertise in accounts receivable, cash management, collections and billing. Proven experience in cash forecasting, reporting, budgeting, and staff performance management * Excellent ability to motivate high performing teams to complete projects, achieve financial objectives, reduce outstanding debt and provide superior customer service * Advocate of Sarbanes Oxley * A motivated and insightful project management leader, understanding the System Development Life Cycl (SDLC), agile and waterfall methodologies, business system improvement and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) * Managed key business partner relationships within and outside the company * An analytical thinker, effective communicator, diplomatic negotiator and coordinator * Enhanced revenue and encouraged competitiveness * Improved processes and cost efficiencies SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Reduced statutory penalty by 33% ($111M) by expediting collections of insurance premium receivables and increased collection rate of new and renewal business from 83% to 93% (or better), positively impacting cash flow and investment forecasting;  Reduced overtime costs by 50% without impacting performance results A business leader on projects in PMP, SDLC and UAT in order to establish more productive, valuable training plans and procedures for System Operations and Collections. Created new training materials and processes and improved on existing ones in order to better streamline business functions and expedite system implementation into production Served as subject matter expert on the team launching the ‘roll out” of the SAP project for implementation of a new receivable and reporting system Gathered functional specifications, formulated business requirements and designed test scripts incorporating the key system functionalities; conducted the end to end UAT and regression testing in order to implement a new platform or product for the company

Listed skills include Accounts Receivable, Insurance, Budgets, Sarbanes Oxley Act, and 46 others.