Michael E. McKenna
2440 Whitby Rd. | Havertown | PA | 19083
Michael.McKenna2@uphs.upenn.edu
EDUCATION:
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelors of Business Administration | Exp. Graduation: August 2015
MAJOR: Accounting | MINOR: Management Information Systems
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:
Analysis:
Information Systems:
Microsoft Office, Visio
SAP Business Objects; Oracle Hyperion planning +
ESSBASE, SmartView
Acct. Information Systems: Infor Lawson, Oracle BEN Financials
Project Management:
Microsoft SharePoint, Box
EXPERIENCE:
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PENN MEDICINE, Philadelphia PA
January 2011 – Present
Junior Accountant (February 2014 – Present)
Responsible for month end close reports and journal entries; as well as dashboard and
physician snapshot reporting for the department.
Accountable for payroll/salary distribution for 200+ employees, including: new hire
support, time reporting, salary/labor hour reconciliation, and fund reallocations.
Design web intelligence reports in data warehouse from SAP Business Objects for
efficient reporting on the University side.
Work collaboratively with management staff and IT on department projects and
initiatives.
Participate in the fiscal year projection and budget spread process.
Train semester internship students on health system processes such as: revenue cycle; data
extraction, reconciliation, analysis; and financial reporting.
Financial Assistant (February 2013 – February 2014)
Aided new management in their transition into department with knowledge of standard
operating procedures and budget process.
Assisted the director of finance in month-end close reports.
Responsible for all of department’s vendor/employee disbursements and reimbursement
requests.
Utilized information systems to extract and create viewable reports for physician reporting
and department monthly dashboards.
Was leaned on for knowledge of information systems for billing, coding and patient care
projects pertaining to compliance.
Clerical Assistant (January 2011 – February 2013)
Worked at length with Administrative Financial Officer to get a firm comprehension of
financial processes and day-to-day operations.
 Assisted in extraction and consolidation of monthly departmental productivity data for
18 physicians who serve 5500+ patients and perform 3300+ surgeries.
 Collaborated with systems engineer on internal information systems upkeep.
Troubleshooting with all levels of departmental staff (i.e. billing database, address
database, physician availability calendar, patient call tracker).
 Administered the automatic distribution of mail invitations for department-wide events
with address database and Microsoft Access.
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Conducted administrative and clerical duties to assist management and staff in daily
operational activities.
MCCALL GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB – Upper Darby, PA
April 2004- Present
Sales Associate
Assist management with customer-related analytics reporting via the POS customer
system.
Handle over $1,000 of pro shop transactions daily and reconcile deposits at end of
business day.
Train new pro shop/course care employees.
Help pro shop and banquet hall set-up and clean-up for large club events and tournaments.
PROJECTS AND INIATIVES (Penn Medicine)
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Grants calendar/Penn+Box – Department initiative between administrative and research staff to
improve the submission process for research grants as well as the efficiency in storing secure
research documents. Participated in process flow, team discussions, PowerPoint creation for
faculty, Penn+Box implementation, and application testing.
SharePoint implementation – Department initiative to obtain secure, collaborative space for
faculty, hospital staff and research staff. Acted as the site administrator and handled site and
sub-site creation, as well as permission hierarchy and access problems encountered by staff.
Nurse Compliance – Department initiative to ensure that nurse practitioners are following up
with discharged patients. Extracted and consolidated data from separate sources and created
spreadsheets to track compliance ratios.
Neurosurgeon database – Department initiative to gain an understanding of the neuroscience
market in the tri-state area. Did market research on neurosurgeons and hospitals in the tri-state
area; summarized the data and it was used for executive summaries and long-term goals.
Physician referral database – Administrative project to effectively track what specialties and
hospitals are referring patients to our department. Worked closely with interns and director of
finance in researching physicians’ specialties and hospitals.
Research reporting – Internal goal to improve financial reporting on University side. Completed
over 60 hours of training to understand the University processes from chart of accounts to
Business Objects advanced training. Currently dedicate 30% of work to creating and running
business object reports under the supervision of the director of finance and the grants manager.
Satellite “downstream” revenue – Marketing initiative to satisfy patients by expanding into the
community with satellite sites. Worked with director of finance to gauge how much revenue the
hospital is seeing from the expansion; information relayed to faculty and upper management on
a monthly and quarterly basis.
Code bundling – Three year financial impact analysis on spine procedures codes that were
unexpectedly bundled. Assisted in the extraction, consolidation and summarization of the data
in Excel and pivot tables.
Marketplace Shift – Year-to-Year financial analysis on the influx of outpatient cases and
decrease in inpatient cases. Worked with corporate IT architects to receive detailed patient
procedure billing. I parsed the data and formulaically summarized it by case to determine the
financial impact of an IP/OP.