Manager Accounting

Peggy Crandell, Executive MBA

C: 612-***-**** ? H: 952-***-**** ? *****.********@*****.*** ? 2400

Jordan Ave ? Minnetonka, MN 55305

director, finance

Senior finance professional with experience in strategic planning,

budgeting, reporting, cost accounting and control, foundation planning

and execution, consulting for a nonprofit, and managing a large

organization through strategic change.

Professional strengths and abilities include:

. Strategic planning

. Financial forecasting

. Budgeting and cost control

. Executive Ops presentations

. Consulting for non-profit

. Voice of customer analysis

. Foundation strategy

. KPI development

. Financial reporting and audit

. Cost accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN (November 2007 - current)

Health care services provider in the United States with $87.1B gross

revenues (2009)

director, regulatory reporting

Financial reporting director responsible for reporting and analysis of 13

stand-alone regulated insurance entities, totaling over $5B in annual

premium revenue. Responsible for the preparation of financials statements

and audited financial report; presenter to board and audit committee

members, keeping them abreast of issues and risks related to financial

reporting and controls. Manage a team of 25 reporting professionals

including 5 direct reports.

. Brought enterprise awareness to appropriate accounting of medical

costs to comply with the state and federal insurance accounting

standards through segment and functional leadership buy-in, awareness

training, development of exception reporting, KPI metrics analysis and

reporting, and updated systems and processes.

. Issued 13 regulated entities audited financial statements, on time or

ahead of schedule, with no deficiencies in accounting or reporting.

Improved controls from prior year deficiencies of 30% to 0% in one

year.

. Increased a shared service's reporting capacity by 18% in one year

through enterprise program initiates to stream-line accounting and

enterprise awareness training.

. Improved communication tools to regulated entity leadership through

the development and presentation of board packages and quarterly close-

call reporting packages that identify key results to leadership and

document controls over accounting and reporting used to improve their

decision making and regulatory compliance.

Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Plymouth, MN (1987 - 2007)

ATK supplies aerospace and defense products to the U.S. government agencies

and its prime contractors and subcontractors, with $4.4B (2008) in annual

revenues

senior planning and reporting manager (2006 - 2007)

Led operational and corporate FP&A team for a division with $350M in annual

sales through ongoing strategic planning, forecasting, and analysis. I had

direct accountability to help the operations achieve their P&L and cash

flow goals by leading strategic initiatives involving cross-functional

teams as well as maintaining compliance with accounting policy. Managed

and developed staff of four accounting and finance professionals.

. Led overall process in coordinating with business development in

forecasting the strategic orders plan and discretionary and capital

requirements, that decreased the gap between their initial roll-up and

their corporate targets.

. Through the development of effective monthly operational reporting, I

enabled the President, CFO, and their leadership teams to take

strategic action in delivering on their key operational metrics

through initiatives such as managing overhead rates, acceleration of

contract deliverables, and management of contract terms.

. Exceeded goals managing cash flow by maximizing vendor payment

options through supply chain management.

human capital investment manager (2004 to 2006)

Responsible for financial modeling and accounting of company's benefit

plans during period of increased benefit costs, pension contributions,

changing accounting standards, and ERISA regulations. Managed one manager

and staff of five.

. Maximized borrowing capacity, cash flow, and reduced expense through

scenario modeling of funding strategies for their defined benefit

plans and funded retiree medical plans.

. As an advisor, I helped to create a new strategic direction for the

spending of the Foundation's funds that directed spending closer to

the company's overall mission in the areas of science and math.

corporate overhead financial manager and government cost accounting

(2000 to 2004)

Managed overhead budgets, working with the SVP to implement tighter

controls, cost reduction, and supply chain initiatives across her

organization.

. Mitigated double digit growth trend in benefit costs by implementing

proactive cost reporting to target cost reduction programs, engaging

health care consultants to improve reporting to understand cost

drivers.

. Implemented KPI tools for operations and corporate leadership to track

cost drivers and effectiveness of initiatives through flash reports,

reporting of overhead rates as compared to budget and forecast, and

tracked cost per driver such as medical costs per employee per month.

. Successful in negotiating cost growth assumptions into the forward

pricing bid rates that maximized cost recovery and reduced P&L risk in

long-term contracts.

Prior: Positions held include Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis

Lead (1998 - 2000), Sr. Treasury Analyst (1994 - 1998), and progressive

positions within project accounting and budget management in manufacturing

operations (1987 - 1994).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Provided consulting to the Board and Executive Director of a large

Minneapolis nonprofit to help their mission gain momentum though voice

of customer feedback they used in their future state strategic planning.

Provided a division of a Fortune 100 manufacturing company a

recommendation on how to change their human capital management and

organizational systems to better align with their strategic market

strategy, which they were able to incorporate into their transformational

change strategy.

Education: Executive MBA - University of St. Thomas, Opus College of

Business, Minneapolis, MN

BA in Finance- University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

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