Ken Blake Email & Phone Number

Assist the County Administrator with major aspects of the county budget preparation, implementation, and coordination of the county’s capital program. Oversee special projects and financial research. Assist and mentor county department managers with budget preparation and department fiscal management. Advise the County Administrator on policy matters, participating in the development of complex policies or reports for the Administrator to recommend to the Board of Supervisors of Wayne County.

A member of the Senior Leadership Council and department management team, presenting monthly financial/volume information and annual budget progress at council, management, and employee meetings. Responsible for monthly general ledger recording, reporting, income statement budget variance analysis, and facility scorecard reporting. Recorded accruals and adjustments as necessary. Provided third party auditors with general ledger and tax return support documentation. Designed analysis models and monitored high cost expense items such as agency labor costs, utility and physician fee expenses.Managed the annual operating expense, volume, and capital budget process for Newark Wayne Community Hospital & DeMay Living Center in coordination with senior leadership council, finance department, and department managers. Planned the annual budgeting process, determining start to completion timeframe calendar, designing department manager budget instruction documentation, reporting tools, and supporting data schedules. Managed timeline deadlines according to approved budget calendar. Mentored and provided analytical support to department managers during budget preparation and variance analysis reporting. Prepared long range financial projections base on current baseline and future revenue and expense assumptions. Designed facility department role-up models and senior leadership summarization reports. •Provided financial and statistical analysis used to restructure Newark Wayne and Myers community hospitals resulting in FTE and non-labor cost savings.

Senior Financial Analyst reporting to Director of Budgets and Decision Support. Worked with Budget and Decision Support team, senior leadership, and profitability turnaround consulting firm, to determine turnaround strategies, present progress results, and financial analysis for during a profitability turnaround process. •Automated a manual reporting process while increasing accuracy and reducing production time for updating system FTE reports used for decision support by senior leadership, to monitor a FTE reduction initiative during consolidation of Rochester General Hospital and The Genesee Hospital departments, by using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, functions and mainframe data downloads.Financial Liaison reporting to the Vice President of Support Services for Rochester General and The Genesee hospitals. A member of the support services management team, presenting monthly budget variance, volume, and profitability information at monthly management meetings. Provided department managers with financial mentoring and coordinated budget preparation, variance analysis, and presentation preparation for presentations at system senior leadership update meetings.•Provided VP of Support Services financial and statistical analysis used to restructure Rochester General and Genesee Hospital departments, resulting in FTE and non-labor cost savings.•Designed a labor staffing pattern spreadsheet used to identify exact FTE needs to be recorded on budget request forms, making it easier for the financial liaison, and VP to understand the department managers staffing needs, and ensure labor budget requests were congruent with those needs.

Manager of the Rochester General Payroll department supervisor and staff with responsibilities for hiring, training, and annual employee reviews. Prepared Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration and New York State wage and tax reporting, fulfilling regulatory requirements. •Member of a three person team responsible for the implementation of a new human resource/payroll system used to manage human resource information, calculate various pay policy distributions, provide accurate general ledger recording, and pay over 7000 employees spanning eight system affiliates, standardizing systems and processes.Managed the annual operating expense, volume, and capital budget recording process for Rochester General Hospital. Provided senior leadership summarization reports and managed timeline deadlines according to approved budget calendar. Mentored and provided analytical support to department managers during budget preparation and variance analysis reporting. Developed budget instructions, reporting tools and supporting data schedules, used by department managers. Designed facility role-up model used for department budgets consolidation and hospital reporting purposes.