Oversaw 12-person team through daily audit activities, including evaluation, creation, and improvement of internal controls over financial reporting and government-mandated Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Prepared annual audit plan for board approval and reported directly to Audit Committee on quarterly basis. Capitalized on process re-engineering and improvement opportunities to save time, reduce costs, increase productivity, and drive accuracy. ▫ Resolved employee payroll overpayments that… Show more Oversaw 12-person team through daily audit activities, including evaluation, creation, and improvement of internal controls over financial reporting and government-mandated Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Prepared annual audit plan for board approval and reported directly to Audit Committee on quarterly basis. Capitalized on process re-engineering and improvement opportunities to save time, reduce costs, increase productivity, and drive accuracy. ▫ Resolved employee payroll overpayments that resulted from data entry errors for overtime hours, enabling recovery of ~$15K and introducing new controls to ensure posting errors were detected and corrected.▫ Overcame inherent legacy IT restrictions by creating Visual Basic program to automatically correlate system user lists with tens of thousands of users on daily basis to rapidly verify proper system access approval for new users.▫ Designed Computer Aided Audit Techniques (CAAT) to evaluate large volumes of transactional accounts payable/receivable and payroll data; resulted in highly efficient and effective audit protocols new to the organization. ▫ Created data warehouse for general ledger transactions across variant legacy financial systems to enhance consolidated review of journal entries and identify unusual activity. Show less

Headed financial operations for 22 ambulatory surgery centers in the Southeast US with ~$28M in revenue and 220 employees and physician partners. Supervised team of up to 60 direct reports for financial statement preparation, financial reporting, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. ▫ Automated task of uploading transactions into general ledger by reengineering batch environment, which resulted in month-end close efficiencies; reduced seven FTEs devoted to this process 80% in six… Show more Headed financial operations for 22 ambulatory surgery centers in the Southeast US with ~$28M in revenue and 220 employees and physician partners. Supervised team of up to 60 direct reports for financial statement preparation, financial reporting, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. ▫ Automated task of uploading transactions into general ledger by reengineering batch environment, which resulted in month-end close efficiencies; reduced seven FTEs devoted to this process 80% in six months. ▫ Cut overhead costs ~10% while boosting efficiency by strengthening accounting procedures, implementing cost controls, and driving process automation for various intercompany transactions and accounts payable activities.▫ Averted reputational risks and potential legal issues associated with overpayments to physician partners by identifying and rectifying errors in account reconciliations. ▫ Designed quarterly cash flow statements for presentation to physician partners to facilitate capital distributions in accordance with partnership agreements. Show less

Led development of internal control programs and managed 95-person staff through audit activities. Reviewed completed audit work papers and reports. ▫ Created audit programs, work papers, and standards for internal audit personnel across multiple financial accounting processes; oversaw professional development of audit staff, senior leaders, and direct reports.