Elaina Johnson
Director
Elaina Johnson is an experienced finance leader with a proven track record of transforming finance and accounting functions through evaluation, process improvement, and strategic planning. During Elaina’s first year of finance leadership and decision making for a healthcare company, her forecasted three-year accumulated positive impact to net income was nearly $1M through FTE savings, systems consolidations, and market evaluation of rates.
Her past responsibilities include oversight of banking and investment relationships, employee benefits, 401k, general ledger and close processes, budgeting and planning, external audits, finance systems, accounting teams, and financial analysis. Elaina’s extensive hands-on experience across all finance functions have provided her with a comprehensive ability to understand details and investigate challenges. She has managed and supported multiple complex business needs including zero-based budgeting and support service allocation for a regional hospital, net interest income forecasting, data loads and validations between multiple systems, and budgeting for large scale merger and acquisition activity.
Elaina is a creative leader who asks “What’s next?” questions and brainstorms solutions. Driven by achieving results, learning, and enjoying all stages of change, she adapts quickly to companies’ systems and general ledgers and is passionate about adding value to a diverse clientele.
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