LUZ AMERICA TRINIDAD-RIVERA
Garland,TX
Summary
Versatile and results-driven professional with extensive experience in financial management and strategic planning, notably with the U.S. Army and Healthcare Service Corporation. Excelled in budget forecasting and personnel management, demonstrating a proven track record of enhancing operational efficiency by over 30%. Skilled in Excel and PowerBI, with exceptional multitasking abilities and interpersonal skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Army Officer in the Finance Corps. (Reserves)
U.S. Army
Houston, USA
01.2024 - Current
- Provides budget subject matter expertise and performance validation to the Brigade Commander who reports up to division
- Ensures oversight of the Brigade's overall budgetary management system and ensures the development of plans and policies to implement higher headquarters directives for budget functions and financial operations such as the buckets that will be pulled to finance upcoming schools for soldiers, trainings, tours, anything travel order related
- Ensuring correct buckets are being used, reports are being pulled weekly to ensure we are allocating funds appropriately and tracking there is enough for the remainder of the fiscal year to ensure Congress continues allocating us funds
- Creates memos to further simplify instructions for soldiers to understand what they can get reimbursed for and how to go about it
- Plans, formulates, justifies, implements, and administers budget/financial management activities for both short-term and long-range programmatic plans and budgets
- Establishes financial management procedures for continual review and surveillance of fund subdivisions and limitations to preclude occurrences of over-obligation of funds
Network Management Consultant
Healthcare Service Corporation
10.2023 - Current
- Development of pricing strategy, calculating offers and negotiator for mediation/arbitration cases for hospitals, providers, and facilities across the state of Texas
- Monitor regulatory practices for a variety of specialties under tight deadlines and tracking on behalf of the Texas Department of Insurance to close out settled cases
- Coordination of scheduling with Mediators, Arbitrators, and their staff for online/phone meetings
- Project management with the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for out-of-network facilities, and physicians across all counties in the state of Texas
- Collaborate with Data Analysts when claim data is missing from the data reports necessary to calculate the negotiation amounts per claim
- Finalize all cases before required deadline- average of 8,500 cases per month
- Daily reporting in Excel using VLOOKUPs, pivot tables and formula creation
- Collect and analyze data from different reports to develop detailed briefs to help arbitrators make informed decisions
Disbursing
U.S. Army
Wausau, USA
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Perform audits, review budgeting proposals, analyze financial reports, allocate funds, approve payments, give travel allowances, and establish financial systems
- Reports directly to the commander to provide data on the management of funds
- Responsible for overseeing soldiers in the company when financial transactions are taking place and for troubleshooting if anything goes wrong with the systems in place which hold millions of U.S./foreign currency amounts being converted and moved around
- Responsibility always falls on the officer overseeing the operations (myself)
- Briefings on current operations, updates, and/or mission critical, essential, and operational planning
Reconciliation Analyst
Healthcare Service Corporation
08.2022 - 10.2023
- Perform application of rates, reconciliation provision, financial settlement allocations, claim adjustments, etc
- For enterprise pricing/discounting and reconciliation applications for the Illinois Division
- Handles provider inquiries as they pertain to hospital contracts, reimbursement, and quarterly ADP reports
- MRF tag validations and TPO pricing alongside use of Premier Pricing, Premier Maintenance, and PPW
- Research and resolution of provider inquiries by processing financial reconciliation and/or working with other departments for resolution
- Understanding all aspects of the application hospital contract terms
Squad Leader
U.S. Army
Fort Sheridan, USA
11.2017 - 05.2022
- X-Ray Technician- Military paid for my schooling in San Antonio, TX and worked at Dwight Eisenhower in Georgia for onsite clinicals at their hospital
- Returned to Fort Sheridan to fill the slot I was trained for and was placed in a leadership position of the X-ray techs at Fort Sheridan as a squad leader
- This entailed becoming a subject matter expert in pay and administrative inquiries on top of what I had just been trained in for the medical position
- I was mobilized with the combat support hospital during COVID as well
- Provided guidance and procedures on various military personnel/pay/ administrative matters
- Assisted with facilitating administrative due outs
- Ensured problems transmitted, documented, researched, resolved, and necessary changes were performed in a timely manner
Education
Certification - Finance
Finance And Comptroller (FC) Academy
Columbia, SC06-2023
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Elmhurst University
Elmhurst, IL05.2022
ROTC Military Science Courses/LLABs -
Wheaton College
05.2022
X-Ray Tech Certification - Radiology
METC Academy
Fort Sam Houston, TX06.2019
Class of 2017 -
Galena High School
Galena, ILSkills
- Intelligence analysis
- Military law
- Personnel management
- Multilingual Proficiency
- Logistics management
- Sustainable business models
- Financing expertise
- Budget forecasting
- Financial analysis
- Multitasking and time management
- Interpersonal skills
- Coordinate events
- Excel spreadsheet tracking
- PowerBI reporting
Systems Experience
- SGLV
- IPERMS
- CSMM
- DDS
- CVS
- GFEBS
- Power BI
Leadership Awards
- Wall Street Journal Award Recipient for Class of 2022, 05/01/22, Provided by the Education Service Bureau of The Dow Jones & Company, Inc. of Princeton, NJ. Recognizes academic accomplishment, service to the University, service to the community and co-curricular activity.
- Outstanding senior student nominee in the Department of Business and Economics, The award is based on campus and community activities as well as academic achievement.
- ROTC- MS4 Alpha CO Commander (Staff)
- Student Veterans Association - President
- Delta Mu Delta Honors Society
Languages
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
English
Native/ Bilingual
Accomplishments
- May 2022- Wall Street Journal Award Recipient for Class of 2022 (Provided by the Education Service Bureau of The Dow Jones & Company, Inc. of Princeton, NJ) Recognizes academic accomplishment, service to the University, service to the community and co-curricular activity.
- Outstanding senior student nominee in the Department of Business and Economics. The award is based on campus and community activities as well as academic achievement.
- ROTC- MS4 Alpha CO Commander (Staff)
- Student Veterans Association – President
- Delta Mu Delta Honors Society
Timeline
Army Officer in the Finance Corps. (Reserves)
U.S. Army
01.2024 - Current
Network Management Consultant
Healthcare Service Corporation
10.2023 - Current
Reconciliation Analyst
Healthcare Service Corporation
08.2022 - 10.2023
Disbursing
U.S. Army
05.2022 - 12.2023
Squad Leader
U.S. Army
11.2017 - 05.2022
Certification - Finance
Finance And Comptroller (FC) Academy
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Elmhurst University
ROTC Military Science Courses/LLABs -
Wheaton College
X-Ray Tech Certification - Radiology
METC Academy
Class of 2017 -
Galena High School
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