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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

BRIGHT Research Partners is a contract clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in medical devices.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minnetonka, Mn

Head of Finance managing a $9+ billion Revenue, 70,000 employee, health insurance and care delivery business with operations primarily in eight countries spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. ● Created functional alignment with headquarters across planning, analytics, accounting, actuarial pricing and reserving, underwriting, treasury, and tax. Implemented best practices improving local pricing discipline, medical cost management, accounting, financial reporting and analysis resulting in improved operational discipline and more sophisticated information sharing with headquarters.● Built a 10+ member planning, analytics, and accounting team for the newly formed UnitedHealthcare segment to engage with the local market teams. Implemented quarterly forecasting cycles, creating transparency to core performance and foreign currency affects. Aligned book close process and reporting to Company standards, including a 40% reduction in cycle time (5 days to 3 days).

São Paulo, Brazil

● Implemented capital expenditure governance, accelerating timelines and strengthening prioritization, transparency, and engagement.● Guided the completion of a SAP ERP system implementation; leading a cross-functional team to address warranty issues during post-go-live period, and first SAP enabled year-end accounting close, annual budget finalization, and interface with headquarters.

Minnetonka, Mn

Managed month-end close process for a multi-site / multi-division group enterprise with U.S. and international operations. Top line annual revenue at that time was ~$160B.● Led the accounting integration of Amil Assistencia, a ~$7B+ Brazilian health insurance and care delivery business, and the first major international acquisition by UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Instrumental in progressing from first conversation to successful year-end close and incorporating within UHG SEC reporting in ~75 days. ● Implemented technology enhancements and stronger financial controls over claim payment processing, resulting in operating cash flow improvement and notable annual interest savings.

Minnetonka, Mn

Designed new corporate role overseeing enterprise process and control improvements, delivering consistency for medical payables, medical cost, and reserving.● Sponsored deployment of enterprise-wide medical cost reserving tool, creating a more stable web-enabled platform, consistency of assumptions used, and reporting produced, resulting in better opportunities for staff development across segment finance teams.● Re-organized chart of accounts structure, improving direct usage of general ledger data by the actuarial department and statutory reporting teams while maintaining service to management reporting. Changes later enabled faster implementation of ACA requirements.

Minnetonka, Mn

Developed annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and bi-weekly volume projections capturing local management risk and opportunity assessments.● Integrated acquired PacifiCare Health System forecasting and reporting; rationalized a combined staff of 33 identifying and leveraging best practices from both organizations; supported operations integration with business decision support and leadership, maximizing entity combined assets.● Maintained days sales outstanding of <3.5 days while revenue grew at an 11% annual rate.

New York, Ny

Finance Lead of then largest Health Plan of UnitedHealthcare, responsible for profitably growing this $1.1Billion business with 900,000 consumers served.

Minnetonka, Mn

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