Cherie H. Little, MBA

PROFILE:
An accomplished finance and administration executive, Cherie Little has extensive experience in healthcare project management, financial planning and analysis, operational assessments and administration. She is a strong team-builder, adept at developing partnerships and innovative relationships with departments and organizations that enhance organizational and fiscal functions and improve overall operational efficiency.

EXPERTISE:
Ms. Little is a proficient project manager, skilled in conceptualizing, planning, evaluating and monitoring complicated projects concurrently. An attentive listener and strategic thinker with more than 25 years of healthcare experience, she can identify key informational needs, prepare financial documents that comply with outside reporting requirements or that support innovative partnerships, reengineer functions, assess and monitor implemented contracts to generate cost savings, and motivate employees to meet aggressive goals even in a cost-cutting environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ms. Little provides financial projections and reports, supports electronic medical record implementations, monitors performance, generates and reviews benchmark analyses for comparison to industry standards, and participates in operational reviews to enhance profitability, efficiency and effectiveness in academic medical centers and specialty practices. She analyzes and quantifies performance, assesses capacity changes or operational improvements on patient volume, and projects the financial implications of change on practice profitability. She creates mechanisms to monitor performance in comparison to projections, and to flag changes in the environment or circumstances that impact financial outcomes.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
Ms. Little has spearheaded long-range planning and financial evaluation of new clinical programs, acquisitions and physician practices; generated financial statements for various centers and physician practices; coordinated development of in-house cost-cutting systems; negotiated contract terms to reduce collection fees; developed reporting systems to monitor payment to help capture additional revenues; facilitated unique service partnerships and associated admitting, billing and medical record functions; created strategic planning tools to expedite decision-making; conducted risk assessments of various functions with potential for financial impact; mastered numerous financial software programs; designed and implemented accounting and reporting structures necessary for corporate reorganization; and prepared for fiscal audits and for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit controls and testing for payroll, expenditure and revenue cycles.

HISTORY:
Prior to joining the Croes•Oliva Group, Ms. Little garnered broad and integrated experience in all types of healthcare delivery organizations, including academic medical centers, acute and specialty care hospitals, insurance companies, healthcare associations, and durable medical equipment manufacturers. As a department director and controller, she managed billing, financial and accounting functions for various medical entities. Complementing her impressive health management and financial background is her most recent expertise as a business financial consultant and her mastery of SOX fiscal requirements.

Ms. Little earned a Master of Management (MBA) degree from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.