Jim Brant Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Delivered forward-looking leadership to operations analytics function on global scale, directing teams in deployment of in-project and ad hoc data analysis. *Advanced objectives of Global Quality Department by leading development of new data infrastructure and reporting tools, ultimately automating 85% of reports via SRSS/PowerBI dashboards. *Introduced new enterprise-wide datasets to remediate gaps in data mining and ETL processes, contributing to $1M+ in operations expenses. *Tapped to advise senior leadership on means of aligning KPIs across operational chain. *Spearheaded warranty-related supplier relations project credited for spurring $300K+ reimbursement.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Intermediary between the business community and the technical community working with IT project teams and business clients to collect, clarify, and translate business requirements into documentation and conceptual design (using appropriate tools and models) from which applications and solutions are developed. Active thought partner and application visionary that shapes the technology demand among the business community and is heavily involved with the distribution and successfully delivery of all BI and other financial system reports. ________________________________________CORE JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES: • Work with senior leaders to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve the strategic vision and operating platform that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology.• Work directly with the VP IT and IT Directors to define strategic requirements for next generation systems.• Partner with business, IT, and technology partners to obtain, analyze, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements and to define and document business requirements for new metrics and reports.• Analyze, document and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications.• Partners with architecture and solution delivery teams to enable system applications that have long-term value.• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and works with customers to uncover unmet business needs.• Partner with business partners to conduct user acceptance testing.• Document user manuals to describe application installation and operating procedures.• Elicit, Critically evaluate and decompose business requirements, and translate into actionable requirements for the IT team

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed a staff of 1 direct/4 indirect as part of the Business Performance Management (BPM) department within the Finance Organization. The BPM’s department role is more of a traditional IT function including data warehousing, report creation, data automation, etc. Led or was a key participant in projects that created increased visibility to various levels of Finance through enhanced analytics delivered through new technologies.• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement documents (BRD)• Translated BRD into functional specifications and test plans• Aided in workflow analysis and process design• Analyzed business requirements from Black Box Testing perspective, business process and system architecture/design• Coordinated with both business users and developers for identifying acceptable solutions• Developer role with report/dashboard creation via Hyperion Financial Reporting, Microsoft SSRS, & Tableau• Served as primary contact for support-related questions

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Completed leadership development program within Finance Organization. Program consisted of rotating through 5 various departments with a average duration of 5 months in each. This exposure allowed me to gain a well-rounded experience within the Finance organization along with developing the necessary management skills. Additional projects outside of the normal work load were expected. The departments worked were: Accounting, SG&A Direct Expense, Pharmaceutical, Membership/Revenue, & Southeast Region Healthplans.• Produced monthly/quarterly financial P& L reports during close process• Built reported to restated template for acquisitions to use to ensure accurate representation of retroactivity• Participated in Forecast cycles supporting Human Capital and Legal business units• Supported CAO as part of UHCG Governance Board for approving new FTE and contractor requisitions• Supported/maintained allocations for National Affordability Savings initiatives Created savings models for clinical programs• Ad hoc analysis around competitor PMPM Rx trends• Produced and maintained monthly Membership Budget Transfers• Improved redesign of select internal MS Access databases• Enhanced reporting functionality with some local databases• Built standardized financial performance template for executive review via PowerPoint

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Simultaneously supported 4 internal tracking databases utilized by various business units with approximately 200 users. Data is stored on a SQL Server database and linked to a Microsoft Access user interface.• When creating our tracking tools, all phases of the SLDC were utilized including: gathering and documenting requirements, application and database design, creating test plans, programming, implementation, support, and training (created access instructions and manuals)• Addressed programming bugs and aided users with error messages and how to correctly input data into the system• Reviewed processes and identified ways to improve efficiency through use of SQL Stored Procedures• Designed, programmed, tested, and implemented enhancements necessary to fulfill added tracking and reporting needs• Produced monthly reports containing numerous volumes, turnaround times, and targeted metrics of both business units and business staff• Provided data for users used for current process analysis, performance goals, forecasting initiatives, and process changes