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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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