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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Directing global finance operations for a highly acquisitive, private equity-owned industry leader, providing a platform and suite of services to companies seeking to efficiently manage immigration processes for their globally sourced or deployed employees. Identifying and implementing effective financial systems, accounting policies and controls around the order-to-cash process. Establish KPIs and identify improvement opportunities across Envoy Global to increase customer satisfaction and shorten the cash conversion cycle.• Managing order-to-cash operational flow for a rapidly growing global revenue base• Overseeing a globally dispersed 8-member team, training, developing, and evolving performance and skills, while building structure for scaling in the future • Responsible for supporting acquisition activity in due diligence and financial integration for affiliated law firms and new businesses, developing a repeatable process of integrating new businesses efficiently • Implementing a new BillingPlatform.com billing & collections system, and a new financial ERP system

New York, Ny, Us

Promoted to oversee team development and evolution of the Analytics Center of Excellence (COE), Promoted to oversee team development and evolution of the Analytics Center of Excellence (COE), providing solution development and digital operations delivery for a $205B major healthcare client. Supported commercial sales and marketing, pricing, customer service, and transformation teams in data engineering, data science, data visualization, data governance, and custom web applications.• Oversaw 50+ domestic and offshore (India) global team members, with titles that include AVP and Senior Manager, delivering digital solutions and insights for a leading healthcare client• Delivered consistently high (98+%) service levels on operational delivery while simultaneously enhancing solutions and achieving productivity/efficiency targets to improve overall profitability• Developed a 7-member team to support the client’s largest reporting division, servicing ~5,000 reports and schedules delivered to commercial and end-user customer teams

New York, Ny, Us

Directed financial transformation and enterprise data governance activities within a 250+ person FP&A and analytics delivery Center of Excellence (COE), providing digital automation and solution development for a $180B healthcare client. Directed the creation and implementation of an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) framework across the client organization to drive focus and value creation.• Created a strategic value map (KPI tree), conducted ~100 workshops with business leaders to catalog enabling a standard set of strategic objectives, improvement levers, and performance indicators • Developed key metric dashboard data visualizations in Tableau, specific to different personas and leadership audiences, which allow for dynamic drill-down and intuitive user navigation• Developed and launched a price/volume/mix (PVM) solution using a dynamic Tableau data visualization solution to drill high-level PVM drivers down to a material and customer level of detail •Organized enterprise data within a centralized data governance platform (Collibra), cataloging and linking data assets to build an enterprise data glossary and lineage from data source to consumption

Dublin, Oh, Us

Provided analytic solutions and governance to teams across Cardinal’s $16B Medical segment as part of a Business Analytics Center of Excellence (COE). Oversaw global data integration of Cardinal’s largest acquisition, providing training and directing functional/regional project leads.• Created processes to provide data ownership, data mapping, data validation, data dictionary, data lineage, and data certification capabilities for segment-wide data & analytics• Led data integration and process governance for $6.1B medical products acquisition, ensuring a seamless transition between organizations across six continents and multiple systems/ERPs• Established a standardized process to manage 1,000+ separate data requests between Cardinal and Medtronic during the three months between the announcement and acquisition close• Extracted and loaded 250M rows of historical sales transaction data into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift environment to feed a Tableau-based interactive daily sales data visualization platform• Implemented a comprehensive file-sharing platform on Box.com, allowing employees within both organizations to collaborate on 30K+ data files used during integration

Dublin, Oh, Us

Led team of sales, marketing, customer service, and data analytics professionals in strategy, programs, and performance to generate approximately $1.5B in annual revenue. Established new policies and procedures designed to support operations and drive new business. • Established a new data analytics department, increasing staff from one to seven members, leading onboarding and training with responsibility for continuous performance improvement• Conducted an extensive audit of supplier chargeback/rebate processes to ensure sales tracings and related rebate requests were optimized, resulting in the elimination of $1M in chargeback denials• Led data efforts to persuade the business unit’s largest supplier to yield a 15% incremental annual cost reduction, doubling the yearly gross profit growth target• Developed the RFP cross-reference and price offer to secure several new prime vendor distribution agreements, including a $40M sole source GPO contract, and a $17M IDN contract• Developed an RFP price offer-value articulation tool to retain a $600M GPO prime vendor agreement • Transformed revenue and margin performance from low single-digit annual market average growth to consistent double-digit annual growth

Dublin, Oh, Us

Directed financial operations for a $2B business unit. Managed new product development, commercialization programs, inventory control, and pricing for all products within the category. • Led modeling efforts to transition a significant portion of business from 3PL fee-for-service to distributed pricing, resulting in $8M of gross margin favorability to budget• Identified $0.4M of strategic price increase opportunities to improve below-market, low-margin business• Established Cardinal’s Advisor Staffing Committee, improving the quality of all Finance hires at the Sr. Analyst level and reducing position fill times by 50%

Dublin, Oh, Us

Directed finance executive team responsible for the business unit reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring all financial reporting complied with corporate procedures. • Delivered consolidated reporting, budgeting, and forecasting of $8.5B revenue for the medical segment• Managed P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement results, including a $100M capital budget• Created detailed reporting to track, and achieving a 30% total inventory reduction goal across the segment• Successfully integrated a $700M acquisition into FP&A department processes and provided financial visibility to business integration teams, paving the way to attain deal model projections • Secured $10M+ incremental revenue with growth incentive offer to 100+ top IDN customers

Dublin, Oh, Us

Directed $400M in annual revenue through coordinated financial planning and management of Cardinal Health brand product distribution. Liaison with manufacturing units to assess needs and develop solutions to improve operational efficiencies, in collaboration with key distributor partners.• Recipient of Cardinal Health “Worldwide Financial Leadership Award,” for consistently producing outstanding results and successfully building and leading teams to deliver on goals• Developed a detailed rebate accrual for distributor chargebacks that reduced P&L fluctuations, improved forecasting ability, and freed up significant income from the balance sheet• Performed extensive analysis to identify and resolve annual profit leaks caused by distributors sourcing product on the secondary market• Developed action plans and tracking visibility to achieve a 12% annual expense reduction goal

Dublin, Oh, Us

Assigned business partner role for multiple functions within the organization, leading controllership management and duties during acquisition and integration of V. Mueller manufacturing facility. Monitored all business and financial aspects of plant. Implemented new SAP order entry system to streamline processes and improve efficiency. • Streamlined monthly financial close process through automated reporting, reducing time to complete journal entry and reporting tasks by 20% • Established a finished goods scrap monitoring processes which led to a 85% year-over-year reduction in manufacturing variances

Dublin, Oh, Us

Selected for competitive 2-year post-graduate program to gain exposure to multiple business units.• Performed detailed standard cost and inventory analysis, leading to elimination of $1.5M+ of outstanding finished goods account balance sheet discrepancies• Reduced finished goods excess and obsolete write-offs by 30%• Cleaned up old work orders to reduce work-in-process inventory by 20% (from 15 days to 12)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance, General