Eric Hughey Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Charleston, Sc, Us

➤ Responsible for managing the asset accounting department and surplus property control warehouse for MUSC - University.➤ Manage senior accounting staff, and surplus warehouse staff, including their training, development, cross training, performance reviews, schedules, and responsibilities.➤ Facilitate annual inventory of ~$1B in capital assets across the university by collaborating with every department and function reviewing and confirming assigned assets and support for any exceptions.➤ Responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and approving all financial activities for capital assets, ensuring GASB, GAAP, federal and state accounting policies are followed and applied correctly. Ensure capital B/S asset accounts are reconciled and monthly commentary insights are shared.➤ Play an integral role in annual audit process, responsible for month-end, and year-end financial close, preparing reports, audit materials requested by KPMG, and audit material requested by MUSC internal auditors.➤ Collaborate with Procurement & Accounts Payable to ensure requisitions, purchase orders, and AP systems reflect the unique information required to track, drive, process and pay capital assets purchases through the new Workday system.➤ Serving as Workday Leader and SME for capital projects & business assets as we continue to transition from legacy systems to ERP Workday. Continue refinement of training material and session for end users.

Charleston, Sc, Us

➤ Provided analytic and project management accounting support to MUSC - Medical University Hospital Authority organization's Capital Projects for both Information Systems and Facility, Construction & Design areas. ➤ Responsible for reviewing and monitoring all financial activities, ensuring GASB, GAAP, federal and state accounting policies are followed and applied correctly. Ensure capital B/S accounts were reconciled and monthly commentary insights shared.➤ Played an integral role in annual audit process, responsible for month-end, and year-end financial close, preparing reports, and audit materials requested by KPMG.➤ Facilitated monthly capital project spend and status meetings with project managers and functional leaders, across both Information Systems and Facilities, Construction & Design to understand progress, and risk both financial and non-financial.

Dublin, Oh, Us

➤ Played an integral role in managing annual global audit processes (South Korea and Italy) and training new offshore team in assuming leadership of GAAP to STAT adjustments in addition to SEC analysis, forecasting, and reporting.➤ Facilitated the onboarding, training, and coaching of offshore finance and accounting resources to support the achievement of cost-savings initiatives for the International Medical Division.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

➤ Reviewed, classified, and reconciled all fixed assets to facilitate migration of data to a new system, collaborating with a small team of experts to review, analyze, and scrub data and identify assets ready for recapitalization.➤ Analyzed and reconciled GAAP and Fixed Assets book values and evaluated aged CIP transactions to define appropriate accounting treatment before month-end and fiscal year-end close cycles.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

➤ Provided financial analysis and consulting to the Real Estate, Construction & Facility (RECF) Department during transition from Harbor-Flex to Lucernex, key to managing 300+ properties, lease contracts, and allocations.➤ Reviewed and audited $2M in annual property taxes across 12 Central Ohio counties, identified properties considered for nonprofit tax exemption status, and monitored KPI reports to identify expense control opportunities.

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➤ Contributed to two multiyear IT transformation programs with a capital investment of $600M+, holding accountability for driving the realization of expense reductions, process improvements, and risk mitigation. ➤ Performed controller functions while leading centralization efforts, retiring legacy systems, and implementing new tools enabling a 1,400 headcount reduction.➤ Ensured forecasting and financial reporting accuracy, maintaining constant contact with project and program stakeholders to drive milestone and goal achievement.➤ Sharpened decision-making and communication skills, relaying complex data clearly and concisely, and being looked to as an accounting SME safely managing the financials and risk on one of the largest IT programs in Nationwide’s history.➤ Developed and presented comprehensive financial reviews to C-suite and executive business leaders, delivering actionable strategies and analytical insights on expenses, benefits, risk, opportunities, scope, allocations, and business case impacts.➤ Excelled in a leadership role, maintaining the energy, focus, and engagement of team members during multiyear programs, playing a key role in working with business unit and functional area leaders to realize gains outlined in business cases.➤ Served as a thought leader by challenging stakeholders to better understand financial implications of options, recommendations, and decisions, and how to plan for optimal execution, deliverables, and resource allocation.➤ Cultivated an engaging and positive work environment; created a culture founded on trust; showed an openness to ideas, opinions, and suggestions; and sought the input of peers to drive the achievement of performance objectives.➤ Built and improved capitalization and amortization multiyear financial view to aid in understanding expense affordability across the business and product lines; led budgeting, forecasting, analytics, external audit support, and reporting processes.

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➤ Earned promotion to manage accounting and finance functions including $2.2M in annual short- and long-term disability payments to claimants, in addition to invoicing, collection, and application of $60M in revenue.➤ Provided leadership to 10 direct reports in 3 cities, providing oversight of risk mitigation, tax disbursements, federal reporting, and annual audits.➤ Counseled senior-level decision-makers on budgeted, forecasted, and actual capital expenditures. Supported the sunsetting of the department following its 2011 sale.➤ Identified, planned, and led the execution of 25 continuous improvement projects resulting in increased efficiency, heightened production, elimination of non-value-added work, and cost-saving headcount reductions.➤ Improved forecasting accuracy through the development and implementation of improved cash flow models, shaping numerous process and policy improvements leading to improved transparency across all performance indicators.

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Joined the Nationwide Insurance Better Health Division two years into its journey, immediately supporting an annual KPMG audit, developing first-time processes, establishing heightened internal controls, and overseeing period-end financial reporting.➤ Performed P&L and KPI analysis, collaborating with business unit leaders and the corporate performance management team to reconcile variances, produce balance sheet forecasts, and track and trend results to identify improvement opportunities.

Bonn, De

➤ Led a 10-member team in collecting $80M in U.S. revolving A/R, managed $800M in U.S. and Canadian fixed asset audits across 130 locations, and championed transition of billing and contract or payment function to corporate offices in Ohio.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

➤ Drove the accuracy and timeliness of general accounting processes, consolidating seven AR and Collections Departments into one regional processing center, and capitalizing on opportunities to streamline systems and capture cost reductions.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Financial Leadership

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting