ALAN PHILLIPS
Bellefonte,PA
Summary
Seasoned senior financial executive and controller with over 20 years of experience, offering accounting and financial leadership to organizations across various industries. Successfully transitioning to a remote accounting role, I bring extensive expertise in executive financial management, including auditing, entities management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost containment. Known for consistently surpassing expectations, excelling in building valuable partnerships and collaborating effectively with individuals at all levels of an organization.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Controller
Encompass Health Corp.
11.2012 - Current
- Company Overview: Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Nittany Valley - Pleasant Gap, PA
- Directing all accounting operational functions and ensuring adherence to corporate and hospital financial controls
- Performing monthly income statement analysis to ensure accurate and timely recording of revenue and expenses
- Preparing annual operating budgets as well as collaborating with leadership to plan and develop annual capital budgets
- Completing weekly/monthly financial forecasts for hospital and regional senior leaders
- Supervising financial and operational controls resulting in no findings on the last corporate Internal Controls Audit
- Overseeing Central Supply, Plant Operations, and Dietary and developing/implementing cost-containment strategies
- Developing, reviewing, and disseminating reports for hospital leadership to manage key metrics and decision making
- Achieving 0 deficiencies in Environment of Care and Life Safety documentation reviews from Joint Commission Surveys
- Decreasing outside radiological expense by 50% through contract rate renegotiation with primary service provider
- Reducing patient care supply expense by 15% through decrease of inventory and best practices
- Collaborating with senior management team to achieve financial goals and key metrics
- Providing training on financial operations, internal audits, and other responsibilities to several new controllers in the Northeast Region
- Completing monthly and year-end financial report preparation including journal entries, variance analysis, and corrections
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Nittany Valley - Pleasant Gap, PA
Area Controller
Encompass Health Corp.
01.2001 - 11.2012
- Company Overview: Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospitals of Virginia - Richmond, VA
- Directed all accounting operational functions and ensuring adherence to corporate and hospital financial controls
- Performed monthly income statement analysis to ensure accurate and timely recording of revenue and expenses
- Prepared annual operating budgets as well as collaborating with leadership to plan and develop annual capital budgets
- Completed weekly/monthly financial forecasts for hospital and regional senior leaders
- Converted to new patient accounting system and provided training to several controllers on new monthly close process
- Assisted the CEO on completion of pro forma financials used to obtain Certificates of Need for the new Encompass Health hospitals in Fredericksburg and Petersburg, VA
- Supported accounting operational functions for Fredericksburg and Petersburg hospitals
- Provided training on financial operations, internal audits, and other responsibilities to several new controllers in the MidAtlantic Region
- Completed monthly and year-end financial report preparation including journal entries, variance analysis, and corrections
- Collaborated with senior management team to achieve financial goals and key metrics
- Developed, reviewed, and disseminated reports for hospital leadership to manage key metrics and decision making
- Oversaw Central Supply and Plant Operations and developed/implemented cost-containment strategies
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospitals of Virginia - Richmond, VA
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Houston
Skills
- Accounting
- Finance
- Business Management
- Key Operational Indicators
- Resource Management
- Business Plans
- Operational Strategies
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Account Reconciliations
- Quality Improvement
- Optimization
- Auditing
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Statement Preparation
- Forecasting
- Annual Budget Development
- Monitoring
- Analysis
- Cost Savings
- Cost Containment
- SOX Compliance
- GAAP Compliance
- General Ledger Account Analysis
- Revenue Accuracy
- Expense Accuracy
- Organization
- Attention to Detail
- Verbal Communication
- Written Communication
- PeopleSoft
- Hyperion
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Word
- Excel
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
Timeline
Controller
Encompass Health Corp.
11.2012 - Current
Area Controller
Encompass Health Corp.
01.2001 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Houston