Strategic FP&A Leader #012126
St. Louis, MO
Finance
27 years
1/23/2026
Profile
Strategic Finance Executive. Driving Growth, Operational Excellence & Value Creation. Seasoned finance leader with 20 years of delivering transformative financial performance across healthcare, banking, and professional services. Expert in shaping corporate strategy, leading high-stakes M&A, and steering multi-million-dollar budgets to maximize profitability and enterprise value. Known for translating complex financial data into decisive insights that empower executive leadership, accelerate growth and scale operations efficiently. Proven ability to modernize finance functions, strengthen controls, and drive cross-functional initiatives that position organizations for long-term competitive advantage.
Career Highlight 1: As CFO of a startup, built the company from the ground up, leveraging top-tier IT professionals from overseas to optimize operations and reduce labor costs, while doubling revenue in the first year. Additionally, led multi-million-dollar strategic initiatives across healthcare, banking, and professional services, improving profitability, streamlining operations, and strengthening financial controls while directly supporting executive decision-making.
Career Highlight 2: Spreadheaded complex M&A transactions and corporate finance initiatives, providing strategic analysis and actionable insights that enabled executive leadership to make high-impact decisions, successfully integrating cross-functional teams and realizing measurable growth and operational efficiencies.
Career Highlight 3: Modernized finance functions and implemented innovative processes and systems that enhanced reporting accuracy, accelerated decision-making, and scaled operations efficiently, enabling senior leadership to drive growth and improve profitability.
Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): A company should hire me because I operate at the intersection of finance, strategy, and execution. I go beyond functional responsibilities to shape decisions, drive performance, and deliver visible business outcomes. I seek an active leadership role where I have ownership, influence, and accountability for results, not passive oversight.
I bring an innovation-driven mindset to finance, modernizing processes, elevating insights, and aligning financial strategy with long-term growth.
Strengths: I deliver strategic financial leadership, turning complex data into actionable decisions, driving results, and modernizing processes while maintaining strong controls and accountability.
Hobbies & Personal Interests: I’m passionate about diversity, community, and active living (skiing, workouts, dancing, etc), believing that, like diversification in finance, embracing different perspectives drives stronger outcomes for both business and society.
Education: BS Applied Economics & Math
Credentials: MBA, CPA (Expected June 2027)
Industry Experience: Banking, Business Services, Education, Emerging Growth Companies, Financial Services, Healthcare, Private Equity, Public Accounting, Technology
Company Fit: Large company in healthcare sector. The company has well over 50,000 employees and operates about 50 hospitals with thousands of beds and outpatient facilities, with operating revenue in the multi-billion-dollar range.
Management Experience: 10+ years. I managed around 25 people.
Software Experience: SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks, Abila, PointClickCare, Strata, etc.My deep understanding of finance processes and strategic mindset enables me to leverage ERP tools effectively to drive insights and business oucomes.
Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote
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