Lisa Costan Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Duarte, California

Beverly Hills, Ca

♦ Responsible for financial management, financial analysis and reporting for clinical trials.♦ Assist clinical operations team with RFP process and site budget development.♦ Administrator for ClinicalTrial.gov updates.♦ Post-award management of Federal and State awards, including NIH and DoD.♦ Organize completion and submission of timely Progress and Financial reports.♦ Assist with accounting close, including grant reconciliation and expense accruals.♦ Develop and oversee effort reporting process.♦ Track progress of actual vs. budget results.♦ Design and implement quarterly grant management checklist.♦ Working knowledge of OMB Uniform Guidance.

Greater Los Angeles Area

♦ Promoted from Senior Decision Support Analyst III♦ Developed and oversaw budgets: sponsored projects, administrative and programmatic.♦ Prepared and analyzed Monthly Financial Statements ♦ Developed and implemented performance metrics for proposal submission, accounts receivable, closeouts, clinical trial contract execution times, and effort reporting.♦ Monitored intramural net asset balances to ensure against overspending.♦ Identified appropriate funding sources for merits, bridge funding, cores, programmatic operations and recruitment & retention.♦ Facilitated approval process for acquisition of equipment, services and supplies for operations.♦ Supported effort reporting process by calculating hours worked on Federal projects across divisions and departments.♦ Coordinated personal actions for department staff and faculty.

Greater Los Angeles Area

♦ Managed quarterly cost accounting process, RVU maintenance, detailed general ledger reconciliations and profitability reporting.♦ Performed financial analysis to support growth strategies for key business units.♦ Supported the annual hospital budget process for the hospital and research institute.♦ Special Projects:▬ Developed projections around the financial impact of APR-DRG implementation by the State for the development of an action plan to improve clinical documentation, coding, and utilization management.▬ Designed interactive business intelligence tools using McKesson Explorer for users to visually discover important trends and outcomes to drive hospital-wide improvements.▬ Team member of Huron-CHLA collaborative to reduce variability, decrease length of stay, eliminate unnecessary resource consumption and streamline care for patients.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Senior Decision Support Analyst, Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale, CA, 2010 - 2013♦ Managed cost accounting process to align general ledger costs with chargeable activities of the organization and generate reporting tools.♦ Developed business plans for strategic capital purchases, new programs and services.♦ Provided business intelligence to executive management including scorecards and variance analysis.♦ Provided market share intelligence for business development and strategic planning purposes.♦ Led a measurement team to ensure that the Hospital’s strategic goals had measurable metrics for performance measurement.♦ Team member of business intelligence task force to build and design a data warehouse and automate routine reporting.

Greater Los Angeles Area

♦ Oversaw accounting and finance functions for St. Joseph, Holy Cross, & Tarzana Medical Center foundations.♦ Managed an investment portfolio of $30M in restricted donor funds. ♦ Identified and funded Hospital capital and operational needs with net assets.♦ Planned and managed internal preparation of annual independent audit.

Master Of Science (Ms), Research Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance