Keith Chilton

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623-***-**** (mobile)

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Mesa, Arizona 85212

Summary

A double Masters (Master of Business Administration and Master of Science) with 20+ years of progressively responsible financial and accounting experience. Adept at applying creative, intuitive and analytical skills to situations requiring meaningful information to guide strategic business decisions. A self-motivated, dedicated professional who achieves logical solutions to business challenges through the application of technical competence and tenacity. A stabilizing influence on the team.

Experience

Director/Senior Manager – Financial Planning and Analysis

CVS/Mercy Care

July 2014 – November 2023 (9 years 4 months) • Phoenix, Arizona

Direct supervision of six senior-level financial analysts.

Analysis/modeling of medical claims expense and capitation revenue supporting mission-critical executive business decisions.

Development of highly complex SQL queries, to support rapid response to executive requests for data.

Development of annual administrative budget, including Salary/FTE, Benefits, and Equipment & Expenditures.

Development of annual plan budget, including premium/capitation revenue, medical and plan administrative expense. Analysis of models supporting the budget, including membership projections, capitation/premium trend assumptions, medical expense trending and projection.

Presentation and interpretation of data to executive leadership.

Director - Finance

Phoenix Health Plan

February 2009 – July 2014 (5 years 5 months) • Phoenix, Arizona

Supervision and direction of accounting, disbursement, budgeting and financial analysis

Presentation of monthly operating results, including interpretation and discussion with senior executive management

Oversight of general ledger activities and regulatory reporting for four separate entities operating in Arizona, Texas and Michigan

Oversight of annual financial statement audits, regulatory reviews and internal audit engagements

Financial analysis of operating results, coordination of financial analysts, and presentation and interpretation of results

Manager - Financial Analysis

Mercy Care Plan/Schaller Anderson

August 2004 - February 2009 (4 years 6 months) • Phoenix, Arizona

Analysis/modeling of medical claims expense and capitation revenue supporting mission-critical executive business decisions.

Development of highly complex SQL queries, to support rapid response to executive requests for data.

Development of annual administrative budget, including Salary/FTE, Benefits, and Equipment & Expenditures.

Support of development of annual plan budget, including premium/capitation revenue, medical and plan administrative expense. Analysis of models supporting the budget, including membership projections, capitation/premium trend assumptions, medical expense trending and projection.

Rapid response to executive ad-hoc requests for analysis

Manager - Financial Analysis

CIGNA HealthCare

April 2001 - August 2004 (3 years 4 months) • Phoenix, Arizona

Preparation and review of Monthly Operating Reports for six regions of Employer Services. Reduced preparation effort from four employees taking five working days to one employee taking three working days.

Budgetary control of expenditures for the Southwest and West Coast Regions. Delivered expenditures within budget for 2001, 2002 and 2003

Maintain and create Access databasses and queries. Converted weekly operating reports from paper to electronic form.

Functional Requirements Manager

Buzzeo Inc

October 1999 - February 2001 (1 years 4 months) • Scottsdale, Arizona

Subject matter expert for higher education financial systems. Determined what accounting processes to include and the step-by-step flow of financial transactions throughout the system.

Managed product team that developed project plans and delivered software releases at the published release date for the first time in the history of the company.

Implemented the Rational Unified Process as the specification development methodology for the product analysts.

Controller

William Woods University

May 1996 - September 1999 (3 years 4 months) • Fulton, Missouri

Senior Internal Auditor

University of Missouri - System

January 1991 - April 1996 (5 years 3 months) • Columbia, Missouri

Education

William Woods University

Master's Degree - 2000

Masters of Business Administration

University of Missouri

Master's Degree - 1988

Master of Science in Accountancy

University of Missouri

Bachelor's Degree - 1984

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry

Skills

SAS (Intermediate), SQL (Intermediate), PowerPoint (Intermediate), Excel (Expert), Word (Intermediate), Access (Intermediate)

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