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Chicago, Il, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Virence merged with athenahealth (athena) in Feb 2019. Responsible for short and long range forecasting, annual budget process, commercial metrics, Board and CXO reporting, and FP&A systems and processes.✴ Led financial activities related to 2022 divestiture to new private equity owners for $17B, the largest software leveraged buyout to date. Process included creating new SaaS KPIs to demonstrate trended growth, normalizing for COVID.✴ Strengthen finance programs and planning cycles including reporting and analytics, long range planning, budget development, and risk mitigation optionality.✴ Increase financial maturity of FP&A team through focus on people / process / technology, including the deployment of a new FP&A system (Anaplan), reporting via PowerBI, and launching a 24 month rolling forecast, albeit with flat headcount.✴ Motivate and develop a high-caliber finance team; improved bench strength and fueled internal promotions.✴ Transform rudimentary excel based revenue forecasting process into dynamic, unit based metric drivers through data analytics and statistical analysis. Includes new telemetry for exception based variance analysis.✴ Operational finance partner fostering a culture of collaboration while, at the same time, holding the business accountable to financial targets through productivity focus.✴ Partner with a cross-functional leadership team in strategic planning sessions to position company for future growth, close performance gaps, and improve operating results.✴ Integrated Virence finance business processes into athenahealth including Controllership and FP&A activities.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Company officer responsible for all finance activities including treasury, tax, audit, FP&A, and finance operations. Created standalone finance function (including legal entities, tax, payroll) after GE Healthcare carve-out.✴ Led divestiture of $100M business segment including financial models, management presentation, and diligence.✴ Investor relations liaison with debt financing and rating agencies; successfully achieved desired rating and funding levels.✴ Successfully negotiated net working capital true up, opening balance sheet, and transition service agreement modifications.

Chicago, Us

Led financial process for carve-out division divestiture to private equity company for $1B. Built high functioning team of three with matrix management of 10+ including India-based employees.✴ Directed a broad range of consultants to create audited, carve-out financials, projections, and metrics used in divestiture process; successfully sold at a premium for $1B. Recognized by GE CFO for speed of process, complexity, and value creation.✴ Explained financials to prospective bidders during management presentation sessions and all financial discussions during multi-month due diligence process.✴ Responsible for product strategy ROI and long range planning. Conducted market research and analysis, sized growth opportunities and quantified ROI, leading to $10M Corporate investment for new NPI for payer/provider integration.✴ Developed fully allocated, product level reporting to assess current capital allocation; resulted in new 5-year strategy to double market share which was successfully executing in year 2 of strategy.✴ Evaluated $1B+ of tuck-in M&A opportunities.

Chicago, Us

Finance business strategy partner for healthcare software products in revenue cycle, analytics & EDI solutions.✴ Drove a new level of financial rigor on business strategy for investment cases, including scenario planning and ROI, by fostering new cross-functional collaboration; investments launched in 2014 translated to 20%+ orders growth in next year.✴ Simplified commercial pricing from 90+ components into 5 solution outcome packages.

Chicago, Us

Chicago, Us

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Led and directed pricing, incentives, corporate presentations, and metrics improvements at CXO level. Consolidated US and International divisions for all 3 financial statement activities. Mentored team of five.✴ Automated forecast process, shortening the forecast cycle by 4 days, allowing time for enhanced analytics and reporting.✴ Created pricing strategy for $100M funnel; increased new logo sales by 300% and boosted average deal size by 47%.✴ Integrated $25M acquisition within two months, including forecast and consolidation process.✴ Developed the first company-wide metrics program to monitor KPIs; resulted in +5pts billability and -10% in travel costs.✴ Nimbly managed cost structure during 2007 recession through improved real estate utilization and cost controls.✴ Interfaced with Executive team and Parent (NYSE: VVI) to communicate financial plans.

A commercial real estate private equity firm, specializing in distressed real estate, commercial mortgage backed securities, and portfolio investments.

Mba

Bsba, International Marketing And Finance

International Marketing & Finance