Kristen Hudson

Oversaw the annual budgeting process for the organization, managing a budget of over $300 million and optimizing resource allocation to maximize the impact on athletic success.

Accomplishments

• In collaboration with the Strategic Planning team, led the organization through a program review to ensure that executive leadership was well-informed about how resources aligned with the long-term organizational strategic plan.
• Developed a framework for ongoing analyses to keep the CEO and CFO updated, ensuring that resources were not being over-allocated and that the organization was effectively managing its multi-year budget.
• Rewrote the backend of the budgeting and forecasting tool, Adaptive Planning, to enhance usability for both end users and the FP&A team, ensuring alignment with our financial reporting and communication practices.
• Improved our internal communication channels, leading to better flow of financial information and enhanced decision-making processes.
• Recruited, trained, supervised, and evaluated members of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team.

Oversee all financial matters for a 80+ employee department and $150M+ annual spend.

Accomplishments

• Played a crucial role in the success of Team USA by working with cross-functional teams to ensure resources were directed to the right areas promptly.
• Conducted a revenue gap analysis to gain insights into the financial landscape of National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and optimize performance outcomes.
• Developed multi-year grant agreements with partners, governing over $60 million in annual expenditures, ensuring continuous funding for key strategic initiatives.
• Led the creation of an NGB/Athlete support dashboard to analyze allocation trends and allocations effectively.

Stepped into a newly created position and led organizational change for the management of federal budgets. Laid the essential groundwork to ensure grant funds were spent and accounted for as required and that program obligations were met.

Accomplishments

• Identified and led enhancements to critical business processes to ensure proper financial controls
• Quickly became expert regarding the proper management of federal grant money
• Led a team that managed over $10M and 150 sub-grants annually
• Repaired dysfunctional relationship with federal oversight agency
• Prepared and provided training to over 150 disparate partner organizations
• Obtained efficiencies and smaller staffing footprint, reduced staff time to manage the program by over 50%
• Ensured all program expenditures were within established federal cost principles, received deficiency free audits all 3 years

Served as the first IT staff member and transformed the usage of technology across the organization.

Accomplishments

• Led all aspects of Information Technology department - scaled and grew the department by over 400%
• Managed and maintained all hardware, software and network components for multiple building campus
• Implemented a variety of enterprise technologies that streamlined key business processes
• Implemented financial reporting system that increased flexibility and enabled retrieval of financial reports on demand