Oversee the station's financial operations and reporting, as well as day to day administrative tasks including budgeting, contract negotiations, personnel decisions, payroll/human resources, and business planning.

Administration of Hyperion Planning and Essbase (system 11) with ability to write calculation scripts, load rules for loading data and modifying outlines. Key results:• Coordinate the design and implementation of enterprise planning and forecasting solutions• Support tools and process design, implementation, and execution in conjunction with annual budgeting and periodic forecasting cycles• Interface with all levels of the organization, Senior Executives and end users, to understand and document business requirements with the goal of enhancing the overall process.• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for the development and changes to HFM applications. Recommend solutions to optimize the experience in HFM.• Lead business functionality design activities to formalize proposed changes. Gathering and incorporating feedback into final design documentation to drive to an approved design for enhancements and changes to the current application.• Perform most minor modifications, develop input forms, reports, add dimension members, make hierarchy modifications, update business rules, load rules, calculation scripts, etc… as needed. • Manage and perform the delivery of training to key end users for all application enhancements. Document changes to the environment for the user experience and on-going documentation for changes to business process/landscape.• Resolve connectivity issues, and provide support for user access issues and security provisioning.• Managing all support requests. Maintain ongoing list of requested enhancements and changes, prioritize changes and user requests.

Ownership of financial and operational analytics for Operations ($103 million) & IS/IT ($86 million) areas. Lead team to oversee financial analysis, audits and capital assets. Develop and maintain relationship management functions. Create financial and production models for decision management and presentations; Prepare key performance indicators and data driven analyses to evaluate annual operating plan performance. Provide organizational insight with actionable solutions and subject matter expertise for strategic initiatives.

• Creation and reporting oversight for $250 million annual budget.• Financial and operational reporting and analysis.• Cost benefit study creation and evaluation.• Built ROI as part of front end consolidation which contributed $835K of annual savings.• Forged Operations per member per month (PMPM) analysis with a 5 year plan as well as a 3 year historical analysis.• Realized $74 million in cumulative savings over a 3 year period as part Operations Strategic Initiatives financial team.• Completed financial restructuring of Operations division to encompass mergers and divisional reorganizations. • Initiated monthly analysis to reconcile lagging issues between salary expenses and divisional organizational structure.• Created Blue Card Host and Home Operations cost analysis for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.• Wrote macros automating analysis of INFOs to quickly determine trends and underlying root causes related to rework.

• Centralized Claims budgeting process.• Developed innovative curriculum on metric analysis for “Managing your Business in Operations” leadership development program.• Transformed legacy reporting models in Claims Division and implemented basic KPI’s.• Initiated monthly analysis to reconcile lagging issues between salary expenses and divisional organizational structure.• Instituted a fixed asset centralization program which saved $53K by reallocating unused equipment to other divisions.• Trained and supervised associates on annual operating plan, invoice payment/reconciliation and A/R databases.

• Developed and drove proactive annual $80 million budget process for Claims Division with business partners.• Established primary tracking models including financial analysis, cost center usage and fixed asset inventory control.• Implemented additional internal controls to administrative pain points (Overtime, Temps, Travel and Pagers).• Optimized database to assist the hospital A/R Unit in managing hospital reconciliations.• Spearheaded negotiations for contract renewals leading to a $200K savings. • Coordinated Operations capital purchases and scheduling including Windows NT migrations and Y2K upgrade. • Owned priority and confidential reporting including officer performance goals and salary/staffing analyses. • Acted as point of contact for external vendors.• Tracked annual operating plan metrics monthly and reported data to Corporate Planning area quarterly.• Handled monthly subsidiary operational reconciliations for subsidiary unit charge backs.• Automated monthly legacy reporting.• Operated as Facilities liaison for opening of processing centers.• Served as disaster recovery planning coordinator for Claims Division.• Developed presentations for executive and line management meetings.

• Managed group and billing issues for an $8 million book of business.• Served as point on contact for 13,000 member Federal government groups on multi-faceted and diverse issues.• Instituted new quarterly reconciliation process on Federal Government groups.• Performed supervisory functions during team leader’s vacations.