S. Brent Graham

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Financial Reporting and Systems Professional

Accounting Professional with 30 years of varied experience. Unique ability to learn new and different systems in an extremely short time with the skills to quickly recognize process improvement and cost saving opportunities. Demonstrated achievements:

Extensive Excel experience (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP’s, Indexing, Charts/Graphs)

New company financial department startups

Extensive Healthcare financial reporting and control processes

Financial Software conversion expertise

Efficient staffing reduction strategies

Staff hiring, training, and management

Complex payroll and fringe accounting systems

Creative marketing and business modeling

Corporate financial turnaround strategies

Software Proficiencies

Microsoft Office – Strong Excel user (Over 20+ years of experience, knowledge of SQL tools to analyze large data sets), Word, Access

Accounting Software – Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, Platinum, MAS90, SAP, FRx Reporting Software, Oracle, Clarity Budget Software, Essbase financial software, Oracle BI

Cognos TM1: Cognos certified on end-user interfaces, cube design, and development,

Other Database Software – CSC Healthcare Software, Monarch Datawatch Software, Diabco Order Processing Software, CMS/Blue Cross of GA (Common Working File), HMS hospital software

Professional Experience

Senior Financial Analyst – Ascension Health (2019 to Present)

oLead Analyst for the TN Ministry of $8B in annual revenue consisting of 8 hospitals providing key monthly metrics to ministry leadership.

oAssemble hospital revenue and expense budgets and 1-3-year forecasts for leadership to ensure ministry revenue/income goals are met.

oCompletion of the monthly PowerPoint presentation for the local ministry board presented by executive leadership.

oCapture and analyze statistics and hospital reporting data for the Joint Annual Report (JAR) submitted yearly to the State of TN Department of Health for all TN Ascension Hospitals.

Senior Financial Analyst – Brookdale Senior Living (2016 to 2019)

oLead Analyst for a division of $530M YTD revenue with over 180 communities to give financial guidance on a daily and monthly basis.

oDevelop community revenue and expense budgets for 15 district teams by reviewing variances to ensure divisional NOI goals are met.

oAnalyze the competitive environments in Brookdale markets to position each community with the largest NOI margins. I evaluate 25 communities per month by reviewing the profitability of each Brookdale building in comparison to the competition.

oPrepare weekly sales KPI reports for 180 communities to assist the sales teams as the division tracks the progress of the monthly sales goals to grow divisional occupancy.

oLead the monthly financial review meetings to evaluate revenue discrepancies, labor challenges, and controllable expenses to help remove barriers to eliminate negative variances.

Senior Financial Analyst Disaster Services – American Red Cross (2011 to 2016)

oLed $50 million Disaster Financial Assistance Program Review to standardize controls and processes across the organization

oDeveloped $20 million-dollar emergency check process in Hurricane Sandy and designed vendor payment processes in both Hurricane Sandy and pre-hurricane events in Puerto Rico during electronic payment outages.

oProvide daily control guidance, financial analysis, and budgeting to Regional Disaster Program Officers in 2 divisions with annual $16m in financial assistance; deployed to 7 large disaster events including Hurricane Sandy ($100m), TX Floods ($1m) as the Finance Director on-site, review processes and controls of each operation, work with operational leadership team to identify key risk areas of fraud and brand risk.

oEstablished monthly and quarterly financial metrics for disaster assistance and grants valued at $500k.

oDirected over 30 financial volunteers from the Southeast Division through monthly projects to assist in the mission of the organization.

Financial Consultant 2004 to 2011

Nashville, TN

Assistant Controller – Community Health System Regional Hospital of Jackson (6 months)

oUtilized HMS computer software to compile standard monthly journal entries, reconcile prepaid and accrual accounts of $500k annually, resolve daily patient financial class discrepancies for proper monthly revenue recognition

oAssisted in hospital documentation for annual cost report preparation of 200-bed facility.

oPrepared reconciliation with variance analysis for hospital CFO of monthly ER, Inpatient, Outpatient admissions

oPreparation of clinic/hospital quarterly financial reports for Executive Management Team

Inventory Specialist / Accounting Manager – Pig Improvement Company (9 months)

oMaintained Porcine $10M inventory control at multiple farms while an employee was out on family leave

oPrepared international standards report (IAS-41) to evaluate future benefit analysis of $3m inventory on a quarterly and yearly basis.

oPrepared an operating budget of $100m annually to load into Oracle using internal budget software

oReconciled 150 B/S accounts and audit work paper preparation for annual audit

oMaintained all intercompany balances and exchange rates between the US and 25 countries.

Accounts Payable Manager – Surgical Care Affiliates (1 year)

oSpearheaded processes in this new company implementing procedures and controls for $150M per year payables department

oEliminated offshore outsourcing by hiring, training, managing and stabilizing staff and procedures

oIntroduced new processes that reduced errors enabling efficiency and reduction in staff workload

oRecovered over $3M in payments by identifying significant overpayments to vendors

oReduced monthly vendor inquiries from 500 to 50 by designing and implementing unique controls

Manager, Special Transition Projects - Financial Analyst – Mars Petcare (6 months)

oCreated $100M pet food division newspaper coupons, established redemption rate calculations

oReconciled $120M corporate consolidated cash accounts and all balance sheet accounts

oMapped and converted accounts from Great Plains and PeopleSoft to SAP software

Cash Analyst – HealthSouth Diagnostic Division (6 months)

oEstablished internal procedures to record $10M monthly cash receipts in PeopleSoft GL accounts

Corporate Controller – Sona MedSpa, Inc. (1 year)

oCompiled weekly cash flow forecast reports for President and Chairman of the Board

oIntegrated franchise financials by implementing Great Plains financial software

Operations Manager – Asurion (6 months)

oImproved claims processing of staff from 17K to 35K per month through analysis of process improvements

Regional Controller – Symbion, Inc. (6 months)

oConducted weekly calls with administrators successfully uncovering negative operational trends

Corporate Controller – Cardiovascular Services of America (6 months)

oDesigned and completed complex reports for this newly formed heart surgery company while acquiring new facilities

Regional Controller – HCA Physician Services – 12 physician practice (8 months)

oCreated process flowchart and supported $1m in physician compliance procedures for new Stark Regulations.

Controller – Gambro Medical Supply 2001 to 2004

Gambro Healthcare, Nashville, TN

Provided financial and operational analysis to the Board of Directors

Performed monthly audits for completeness and compliance with Medicare Policy

Education

Bachelor of Science – Accounting with Minor Finance

David Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN

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