Paul Platz, Mba, Chfp Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati Area, Ky

• Oversee a team of analysts to ensure consistency in work and reporting.• Responsible for management of contracts including negotiations with suppliers.• Partner with manufacturer sales reps to maintain awareness of product changes. • Build and perform spreadsheet analysis of products or product groups. • Extract raw data and transform it into meaningful information for management.• Analyze market conditions with statistical data to develop strategic action.• Developed a standardized analytic process.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Medicare DSH, responsible for the detailed process of assembling and filing for DSH reimbursement for 17 hospitals, financial impact to system is $50M.• Medicare Bad Debts, oversee their assembly and ensure logs meet quality standards, financial impact to 22 hospitals is $20M.• Month end close, PS&R’s, Monthly Dashboards, Year End Reports for: Days, Discharges, Revenue.• Decision Support reporting.• Work with and respond to external auditors and evaluate their financial impact.• Support Director with ad hoc research and analysis.

• Presented various executive level reports to Senior Leadership of Hospital including CEO, COO and CFO. • Assisted CFO in contract negotiation with commercial insurances providers which resulted in a 5% increase in Net Revenue.• Participated as a member of a Revenue Cycle team for 5 years and Revenue Cycle Director for 1 year. • Designed and maintained a full costing Decision Support System using a home grown SQL database which contained financial, payroll, statistical and census data. The data collection and reporting was automated resulting in a turnaround of hours instead of days. The system has been independently valued at over $500,000 and does not require monthly/yearly maintenance fees to a software manufacturer. • Compiled Yearly and Monthly Budgets for 25 managers and 100 cost centers.• Created Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly financial reporting of Actuals, Fixed and Flex Budgets through the Decision Support System.• Developed and designed a Contractual modeling system using Monarch, Access and Excel to track by payor, patient type, patient and aging bucket, which vastly improved the accuracy of the previous system. • Developed an automated daily dashboard report using SQL and Excel reporting on Census, Surgeries, Out Patient Volumes, ER Visits, ALOS, Case Mix, FTE’s & Revenue. • Prepared work papers for Medicare and Medicaid cost reporting company. Was the primary contact with FI for Wage Index, Occupational Mix, DSH, and HCAP. • Ensured compliance with the audit standards of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.• Served as a Co-Chair and administered the operations and financial affairs of the Deaconess Foundation Golf Outing which rose over $100,000 in net income for the Foundation.

• Supervised a team of staff accountants.• Managed a Fixed Asset database of over 300,000 individual assets and 2 billion dollars.• Coordinated Property Management purchases and sales to the database.• Prepared GL entry's.• Ran monthly Book depreciation.• Ran yearly Tax depreciation and Book to Tax reconciliation’s. • Conducted yearly reporting of Personal Property Taxes to 8 different states. • Prepared 10Q and 10K forms for External Reporting Department.• Coordinated conversions and acquisitions of capital assets.• Worked on special projects.

• Prepared financial reporting.• Investigated and reported on unusual variances.• Monitored and reported on operational trends which impacted business performance.• Created statistical tracking and reporting.• Improved efficiency of reporting process by 30%.• Reviewed general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy.• Performed daily cash balancing including monthly bank reconciliation’s.• Maintained and balanced fixed assets.• Prepared journal entries.

• Prepared personal and corporate tax returns.• Assisted on audits as needed.• Worked with major clients to perform their Accounts Payable/Receivable functions, cash management, inventory, and sales tracking.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Intelligence

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting