Chris Evans
St. Johns,FL
Summary
Experienced CFO with more than 15 years of success within the healthcare industry. Skilled in uncovering opportunities to improve financial growth, risk management and internal controls when managing all accounting functions. Prepared to bring talent and expertise to an organization offering opportunities for advancement.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Financial Officer
Ascension St. Vincent's Southside Hospital
10.2023 - Current
- Provide leadership with expense management, productivity, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and capital planning.
- Plan and coordinate financial resources for various departmental services.
- Develop business models to examine new opportunities to expand (or reduce) service lines and ventures.
- Devised systems to monitor, evaluate and track operational achievements.
Chief Financial Officer
Central Florida Behavioral Hospital
10.2020 - 09.2023
- Oversees deployment of strategic business plans to accomplish accounting, compliance and revenue targets.
- Directs all financial activities, including budget development, creation of budgetary controls and recordkeeping systems and investment management.
- Worked closely with Business Office to decrease late scheduled accounts by 85%
- Responsible for preparing and reporting on all aspects of $8m annual EBITDA.
- Assists CEO with operational decision-making regarding staffing, capital purchases, and departmental shifting.
Controller
Memorial Hospital Of Jacksonville
06.2018 - 10.2020
- Prepare and review journal entries, perform analysis to ensure the general ledger is materially correct (and reliably reflects the financial position of the hospital).
- Complete and review monthly revenue entries (Medicare Exhibits, Managed Care, Bad Debt) as well as report on material service-line & payor variances (MOR).
- Create and maintain hospital budgets: Revenue (+$400m), Operating Expenses (+$300m), and Capital (+$60m).
- Accurately projected monthly EBITDA (~$8m budget) on a weekly basis to Hospital and Division leadership, with the ability to identify and communicate any unforeseen variances in a timely manner.
- Provides active and dynamic leadership to Accounting department which has resulted in a 30% decrease in month-end closing time while increasing satisfaction 46% (as measured by quarterly employee engagement surveys)
- Coordinates with department Directors on to develop attainable annual budgets, reportable statistics, and productivity metrics.
- Help complete various State & Federal audits, reports and surveys. which have resulted in no P&L findings.
- Worked with Ethics and Compliance Officer to develop policy and tracking mechanism for charitable gifts and/or donations.
- Complete and review weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual SOX and Internal Controls.
Assistant Controller
Eastside Medical Center
01.2016 - 06.2018
- Oversee all aspects of monthly closing process- journal entries, B/S reconciliations, ledger review to ensure integrity of financial statements.
- Report on material payor and service line variances as compared to budget, prior year, and current year run-rate.
- Work with department Directors on budgets, reportable statistics, and productivity metrics.
- Help complete various State & Federal reports and surveys which have resulted in no P&L findings.
- Assist Controller with maintaining, processing, and reconciling a capital budget (fixed assets) of over $30m.
- Complete and review SOX controls as well as work with leadership to develop additional Internal Controls that have since become company "Best Practices".
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the Controller.
Senior Accountant
Westside Regional Medical Center
09.2013 - 01.2016
- Prepare journal entries for month-end closing process.
- Work with division counterparts to ensure timely and balanced intracompany expense transfers.
- Completes monthly and quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Controls to ensure internal and external control compliance with no reportable findings.
- Responsible for accurately stating Medicare revenue: Monthly exhibits, secondary payor revenue, and the recording of Bad Debt Recoveries.
- Reconciled balance sheet accounts and created documents for month end closing procedures.
- Track, maintain, and complete Podiatry Resident GME financials.
Staff Accountant
Aventura Hospital & Medical Center
12.2010 - 08.2013
- Reconciled and performed surprise audits on all locations containing petty cash.
- Ensure all cash collected (cafeteria, gift shop etc..) is sent to the bank in a timely manner.
- Balance, reconcile, and audit inventory for implantable devices totaling over $2m.
- Analyze expense accounts and provide explanations for material variances from operating budget.
- Computed, analyzed, and entered all facility statistical metrics.
- Assist with annual budget process, Tax Package, and Cost Report.
Education
Masters of Business Administration -
Nova Southeastern University
Davie, FLBachelor of Science - Finance
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FLSkills
- General Ledger
- Advanced Excel functions (V/H-Lookup, Pivot table/Chart, VBA, Index-Match, If/Then, Indirect, Offset, Arrays)
- Balance sheet Reconciliations
- Inventory management
- Statistical Reporting
- Accounting management
- GAAP
- Labor and productivity
- Budget Forecasting
- SOX and Industry compliance
- Internal control management
- Preparing Financial Statements
Timeline
Chief Financial Officer
Ascension St. Vincent's Southside Hospital
10.2023 - Current
Chief Financial Officer
Central Florida Behavioral Hospital
10.2020 - 09.2023
Controller
Memorial Hospital Of Jacksonville
06.2018 - 10.2020
Assistant Controller
Eastside Medical Center
01.2016 - 06.2018
Senior Accountant
Westside Regional Medical Center
09.2013 - 01.2016
Staff Accountant
Aventura Hospital & Medical Center
12.2010 - 08.2013
Masters of Business Administration -
Nova Southeastern University
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Florida State University
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