Sharie Young, CPA

Experience

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  Highmark Inc.

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2011

  Director-Shared Financial Services

  ● Led multiple departments in Finance division that provided services to the parent company, certain subsidiaries, affiliates, and external parties. Key liaison between finance management and the Chief Accounting Officer; served as client executive relationship manager for subsidiary and affiliate organizations. ● Consolidated various functions into a centralized Shared Services division (~200 FTEs) resulting in reduced application support costs, reduced headcount, and improved controls.● Cultivated effective performance management and mentoring to staff at both the exempt and non-exempt level to establish clear expectations and foster professional growth of others. ● Managed the prioritization and distribution of work for all finance business analysts including on-going production support as well as enhancement requests and/or replacement of existing systems. ● Developed budgets and ensured monthly targets were met. Business owner of various finance applications supporting key business processes; approved and monitored user access and system changes and enhancements. ● Created BPO Model for affiliates and clients in support of their transactional processes and provide 24/7 support; provided expertise to reduce administrative costs Show less

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  Highmark Health

  Aug 2011 - Apr 2019

  VP - Integrated Financial Systems and Operations

  ● Led finance operations division providing transactional accounting and reporting services, program management, consulting, business analysis, IT, and change management support for various applications included in a platform solution leveraged by the Highmark family of companies and Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Plans nationwide. This included internally developed applications and other vendor supplied software.● Led implementation lifecycle activities including sales, discovery, refinement, implementation, organizational change management, training, and steady-state support. Orchestrated sales and solutioning support for new client prospects and strategic projects; enhancements for existing clients.● Implemented technologies with the least number of system defects; reduced system defects by 50% from 2017 to 2018 for systems owned on the platform. Developed and maintained roadmaps for further advancement of applications. Achieved high customer satisfaction scores● Leveraged vendor software in creating on-line, real-time training modules as an innovative way to better support client adoption of the systems.● Executive Lead for implementation of Workday as an HCM tool replacing legacy PeopleSoft applications as it related to the time and attendance, payroll processing and payroll tax functions for 18 EINs supporting 18K employees under the Highmark Health umbrella.● Led Shared Financial Services division supporting the following functions; incoming cash receipt processing, cash accounting and reporting, national business (BCBSA) accounting and reporting, claims overpayment recovery, and health spending account processing. Maintained claims billing and settlement division which supported the invoicing of over 850 self-insured clients and clients with spending accounts.● Directed corporate finance and admin. functions including; accounts payable, payroll processing, payroll taxes, IRS compliance, unclaimed property compliance, mailrooms, scheduling Show less