Cost Accounting/Financial Planning Analysis Consultant- provides professional support for business and operational decision-making in the healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Delivers P&L improvements, produces solutions and tools, introduces best practices, and re-engineers processes to optimize controls and spending, based on organizational needs..▫ Identified $1.0M in underpaid US government reimbursements; Assessed expenses, locating use of high-priced supplies, directing replacement of vendors and products with lower cost alternatives.▫ Recovered over $250K in denied payments, uncovering contractual non-compliance and prompting executive intervention, Efforts avoided contract loss and resulted in improved legal compliance.▫ Redesigned cost accounting system. Restored confidence of system-generated revenue and P&L reporting; Created standards for expense accounting of supply, service, and labor components across $600M+ operating budget and 15+ departments.* Speeded 14-month, $1.0M application deployment of cost accounting and contract management system. Improved data quality of cost accounting subsystem and secured corresponding alterations to the general ledger to deliver uniform reporting across departments.Specialties: Data Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Contract Modeling/Compliance, P&L sub-system Improvement, Continuous Process Improvement, Expense Variance analysis, Product costing (std, process, job), Inventories (physical/perpetual)
Listed skills include Process Improvement, Analysis, Management, Budgets, and 44 others.