Jessica Blanco
Sylmar,CA
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with extensive experience at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, excelling in financial reporting and data analysis. Proven track record in cost reduction strategies and budget management, driving impactful change. Adept at utilizing Tableau and Microsoft Excel to enhance decision-making and foster collaboration across departments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Finance Consultant – Enterprise Decision Support and Strategic Planning
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
12.2024 - Current
- Assists the Financial Turnaround Management Office with benchmarking activities to identify performance gaps.
- Provided guidance to department leaders on staffing models and productivity enhancements.
- Generated APR-DRGs reports to analyze current trends and inform decision-making.
- Recommended targeted areas for improvement based on data analysis.
- Revises and submits quarterly reports to facilitate timely staffing decisions and address productivity variances.
Finance/Strategy Consultant – Enterprise Decision Support and Strategic Planning
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
04.2022 - 12.2024
- Supports change management efforts in Pediatric Excellent at Children’s (PEAC) with a focus on time utilization and clinical resource reduction to the right size practice
- Project's overall mission is to facilitate change management to support CHLA’s cost model
- Create project plans for government relations projects with senior leadership pertaining to Medi-Cal reimbursement advocacy efforts
- Build reports and submits benchmarking data for the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA)
- Data pertaining to clinical, financial, and charge information for enterprise as well as financial standing, and operational usage
- Serves as a liaison for benchmarking metrics for children’s hospitals across the nation and for provider relations analytics when it comes to provider affiliations
- Responsible for managing funds flowing from hospital to medical group with monthly accounting reconciliation and budget validations
- Support efforts on the resource management committee by facilitating requests, data validations, stakeholder communication, and directing committee meetings
- Maintain and submit revenue reporting for accounting pertaining to forecasted revenue for inpatient and outpatient revenue
- Support new program business plans in providing data and direction on approach before stakeholder approval
- Recent new business plan approval—Bariatric Surgery
- Data inclusive of financial forecast, market share volume, and clinical volume
- Create and support Tableau monthly volume dashboard for multiple stakeholder groups
- That supports inpatient, outpatient, and surgical efforts distinguished by patient population, specialty, and financial classification indicator
Financial Analyst – Southern California, Permanente Medical Group Financial Services
Kaiser Permanente
Woodland Hills, CA
07.2020 - 04.2022
- Collaborated with departments and serves as a liaison in terms of assisting with the interpretation and understanding of financial findings
- Built reports for high-variance driver departments and provided recommendations on cost-saving initiatives based on financial findings
- Organized and presented at annual department budget meetings in preparation for year-end budgets
- Managed employee compliance materials in the local HR system
- Assisted with executive leadership in identifying out-of-compliance departments in licensing
- Maintains ad hoc reports bi-weekly that identify top unfavorable variances, on-call staff utilization, and premium actuals
- Familiar with budget targets, maintaining favorable variances, and entering data into VMS system
Financial Assistant – Southern California, Permanente Medical Group Financial Services
Kaiser Permanente
Woodland Hills, CA
06.2018 - 07.2020
- Oversaw Financial Services day to day office services including calendar requests, financial system maintenance, and reporting interpretation
- Submitted invoices to the Accounts Payable team and verified payment processing
- Facilitated requisitions by verifying funding prior to Area Finance Director’s approval
- Revamped Physician Dining Room workflow process and eliminated the use of paper, while increasing the payment collection rate
- Generated bi-weekly financial Payroll Trend reports that are distributed to senior leadership
- Created overtime report update for the current pay period by consolidating data from the KP Time system and VMS
- Created an automated action item tracker on SharePoint
- Connected financial components of day-to-day expenses to operational needs through department rounding and internal family experiences
Intern - Innovation & Care Delivery
Kaiser Permanente
Woodland Hills, CA
02.2018 - 06.2018
- Served as a team player in increasing the Southern California kp.org registration rates at Woodland Hills by 12% with outreach to members ranging from the Woodland Hills and West Ventura service area
- Promoted the importance of encouraging members to utilize kp.org to staff to drive member retention
- Designed a SharePoint site that served as a resource for staff to review tutorials and data on newly implemented workplace processes and technology
- Responsible for taking inventory and distributing equipment needed for video visit setups for new facilities
- Assisted with video visit learning process for physicians and staff
- Created work-flow documents for incoming interns for kp.org efforts
Education
Master of Science - Health Administration
California State University, Northridge
05.2023
Bachelor of Science - Health Administration
California State University, Northridge
05.2018
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Financial auditing
- Microsoft AI Co-Pilot
- Tableau
- SQL
- Power BI
- Cerner (EMR)
- Revenue forecasting
- Financial reporting
- Cost reduction strategies
- Data analysis
- Financial modeling
- Budget management
Certification
- ONLC Training
- Tableau Training Certificate of Completion: Tableau Desktop Level 1 July 2021
- Introduction to Microsoft 365 CoPilot—Coursera May 2025
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Finance Consultant – Enterprise Decision Support and Strategic Planning
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
12.2024 - Current
Finance/Strategy Consultant – Enterprise Decision Support and Strategic Planning
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
04.2022 - 12.2024
Financial Analyst – Southern California, Permanente Medical Group Financial Services
Kaiser Permanente
07.2020 - 04.2022
Financial Assistant – Southern California, Permanente Medical Group Financial Services
Kaiser Permanente
06.2018 - 07.2020
Intern - Innovation & Care Delivery
Kaiser Permanente
02.2018 - 06.2018
Master of Science - Health Administration
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Science - Health Administration
California State University, Northridge
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