John Rudrud Email & Phone Number

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Responsible for developing, performing, and managing the analyses of business and financial metrics KPI's, performance measures, and financial reporting to clearly communicate actual results, forecasted performance, and variances to plan, forecast and budgets with leadership.Work closely with business unit leadership to develop, recommend, and establish strategies, plans, and processes to improve performance.

Responsible for developing medium and long-range strategic priorities and aligning multi-year and annual resource planning and evaluation processes to those priorities. Managed a regular cycle of strategic plan checkpoints and ensure alignment with corporate and division strategies is maintained. Engaged leaders to understand, synthesize, and translate key information into meaningful insights to support setting strategic priorities. Supported strategic initiatives spanning growth, go-to-market, and operational performance enhancement by directly scoping, planning, leading, and executing strategy projects. Provided strategic recommendations based on a thorough analysis of internal and external business issues and environmental factors, careful assessment of available information and determination of knowledge gaps, and translating research into trends with estimated business impact. Facilitated the execution of evaluation processes to assess and report on the progress of the strategic plan. Coordinated with staff and stakeholders to enhance transparency and communication of other functional priorities, goals, and objectives. Supported the development of long-term strategic communications plans, including implementation of proactive messaging and rapid response for internal and external audiences.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for financial analysis, cultivating competitive intelligence, and data analytics used to support the strategic plan. Includes development of trends and business drivers, monthly financial and statistical reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, complex financial modeling and Medicare/Medicaid analysis. Responsible for supporting Laboratory Services department budgets, forecasts, and on-going process improvement efforts. • Facilitated monthly department planning sessions to ensure strategic alignment at the operations and execution level. Developed ROI business case projections and led funding prioritization discussions with leadership.• Reviewed monthly and quarterly plan performance with the executive team and led discussions focused on required corrective actions. • Developed and managed complex budget process that included detailed cost analysis of components used to establish product price levels.

500 N 5Th St, Minneapolis, Mn 55401-1206, 2Nd Floor

Sr. Strategic Planning and Financial Analyst - Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2002 to 2017.Led the strategic planning process including strategy development and execution support, metric design and performance reporting, business case development and alignment, and project prioritization and funding processes. This includes communicating and cascading the annual strategic plan to the department level, regular reporting of plan performance to senior management, and development of financial ROI models and business cases that support the strategic plan. Collaborated with Human Resources, Marketing, Operations, IT, e-PMO, and Executives to develop and secure plan input. • Led the development and coordination of the organization’s strategic plan and the plan performance measurement reporting system. Partnered with all Department leaders as well as the C Suite to develop and refresh strategic business plans and metrics targeted to drive plan improvement. • Facilitated department planning sessions to ensure strategic alignment at the operations and execution level. Developed project business cases and led funding prioritization discussions with leadership.• Reviewed monthly and quarterly plan performance with the executive team and led discussions focused on required corrective actions. • Implemented a new enterprise-wide Balanced Scorecard system that resulted in the successful roll-out of major awareness, branding, systems, cost savings, and new revenue initiatives. • Led automation of enterprise-wide strategic performance reporting and analytics system that tracks and reports over 200 monthly and quarterly department and organizational metrics critical to the success of our strategic plan performance. • Led the development of organic modeling simulation and financial analysis to assess impact of new product proposals on strategic plan objectives and to assess different business scenarios impact on revenue.

B.S. And M.B.A., Business And Finance

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity

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