Director, Mergers And Acquisitions
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Identified potential mergers and acquisitions reporting to Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller.• Performed as principal strategic advisor to the Chief Financial Officer and the VP Finance; a key member of the CFO’s and VP Finance’s leadership teams.• Identified, researched, and determined feasibility of potential mergers and acquisitions, appropriately challenging potential acquisitions and performing detailed financial analysis.• Operated as Company Team Leader for all merger, acquisition or divestiture activities; responsibilities included organizing the team members, providing for regular meetings, reporting status updates to Executive Management and the Board of Directors and leading all financial analysis and projections. • Led the divestitures of the Company’s $300M, 62,000-member non-core health insurance line of business and the Company’s $15M non-core Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing Services lines of business.• Served as Finance lead in the Company-wide Health Care Reform Task Force in response to the Affordable Care Act enacted in 2010.• Performed ad hoc, special projects and other varied tasks, financial or operational, at the direction of the CFO and other members of Executive Management.• Participated in a successful third party led, legal mediation process in settlement of valuation findings for a majority-owned subsidiary. • Developed and led the presentation of an internal leadership development course on Financial Acumen for non-Finance management, routinely one of the most well attended and successful training courses at the Company.