Donna Omoregie
Washington
Summary
Results-driven Finance Executive and Tech Founder with 10+ years of experience in financial management, strategic planning, and product lifecycle leadership. Proven track record of driving cost savings, optimizing product performance, and leveraging technology to streamline business operations. Expert in agile methodologies, data analytics, and managing cross-functional teams.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder/CEO
The FreeStyle App by FreeStyle, LLC
11.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: www.GetFreeStyled.com
- Provide overall leadership, vision and strategy while maintaining a solid understanding of the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of The FreeStyle App -an iOS mobile app product that received a 5-star rating in the app store
- Utilized an agile methodology to help direct team in using sprint planning tools such as Jira and Confluence to describe and visualize the goal of each sprint and how team will work towards completion
- Establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and regularly analyze product performance data to drive data-driven decision-making, thus allowing for the implementation of strategies to optimize product performance, user engagement, and customer satisfaction
- Ability to define and communicate a compelling product vision, ensuring alignment with market trends, customer needs, and industry advancements
- Integrate aspects of the application lifecycle management using RTC to increase efficiency of enhancement request changes thus allowing all stakeholders to stay informed of task changes of interest
- Build and lead a high-performing product team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability
- Oversee Engineering and Product Design teams to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers
- Champion user-centric design principles, ensuring that product delivers exceptional user experiences
- Utilize market insights to inform product decisions, identify opportunities, and address potential challenges
- Demonstrate leadership through proven ability to lead, inspire, and motivate a high performing team while setting objectives and agreeing on a set of key results to demonstrate the success of all outcomes and initiatives, thus resulting in a successful product launch
- Identify early adopters/user prospects for product and map out a strategy to understand their needs, wants and ideal solution
- Cultivate and leverage key relationships with Partners, Sponsors and Supporters to foster collaborative branding and strengthen market execution strategy
- Project management experience using JIRA, confluence, RTC, SDLC, and agile methodology, product, and people-oriented mindset, with the ability to sustain failure and endure to success, as demonstrated by successful launch of The FreeStyle App to the App Store
- Www.GetFreeStyled.com
Financial Management Consultant /Financial Controls
GoodLife Medical Center
04.2021 - 05.2024
- Implement new Generative AI software to help automate and improve upon revenue management cycle, thus helping to increase efficiency by streamlining the patient billing process and recovering over $300K in leaking revenue
- Work with all levels of staff/management to manage complex projects involving coordination of multiple participants and teams aimed at assisting decision making in resource allocation and/or improving the financial performance of GoodLife Medical Center while also identifying, analyzing, and tracking key KPIs in compliance with regulatory policies and procedures for the industry
- Lead core strategic financial planning processes including budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance tracking & analysis
- Lead healthcare accounting process by monitoring and recording the revenue and spending of the medical facility to ensure the facility adheres to its budget and plan to support highest quality of patient care
- Identify, develop and implement strategic recommendations to improve capabilities across the finance function, such as process improvement, technology optimization and organization development
- Responsible for overseeing all financial functions and financial controls for external grant and contract portfolio including budget preparation (pre-award) and monitoring/reporting on financial performance (post-award)
- Assist in the generation of ideas and strategies for new business opportunities
- Cultivate and leverage key relationships with key software companies in order to help implement technology upgrades through the medical practice
Fiscal Program
District of Columbia Gov’t
12.2017 - 04.2021
- Conceptualize, implement, and maintain a program budget/funding Dashboard, a standardized template of reports used to organize, analyze, and graphically display a grant-by-grant burn rate snapshot for reviewing the rate of spending on various Federal Grant budgets, thus building accountability and monitoring ~$9Mil in expiring federal funds and contributing to the prevention of lapsing funds during yearly closeout
- Pioneered new agency wide solutions regarding KPI oversight through my work as an innovation lab pioneer and two-time participant
- As a result of my involvement, helped to foster cross- functional and internal collaboration by facilitating an innovative new approach to agency wide review, planning, and execution of broader agency KPI objectives and goals across program divisions and staff to ensure the proper alignment of various federal grant budgets in accordance with agencywide goals, thus helping to align funding to areas of most impact
- Manage and deliver programs by coordinating activities and delivery across multiple, related projects that span technology and operational teams and areas, thus helping to deliver strategic initiatives that enable business transformation in the short to mid-term
- Ensure that projects/programs are executed within specified timeframes and budget in accordance with quality and benefit targets using defined controls, processes, and support tools
- Review and analyze RFPs and aided in the process to help execute over 40 program vendor contracts and agreements to effectively onboard grant recipient vendors, while monitoring program and contractual requirements to ensure compliance and performance outcomes were met
- Work cross functionally with IT department to monitor and help onboard staff regarding new virtual workspace and requirements as part of the transition to remote work during the start of the 2020 nationwide pandemic
- As a result of my efforts staff received resource guides and tools to help navigate the digital workspace with ease
Director of Finance /Financial Controls
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
04.2016 - 12.2017
- Support the CFO directly in all communications with the board, leadership team, investors, and other stakeholders, preparing materials, conducting analysis, and helping shape company narrative
- Analyzed and presented financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; consolidate and clearly communicate monthly and annual financial statements for all healthcare donor segments, and oversee all financial, project/program and grants and financial accounting lifecycle
- Led cost optimization and the improvement of overall financial controls by providing in depth knowledge of key expense line items such as time and effort and personnel in order to evaluate current reporting, to expand analysis and create forecasts, to analyze salary, taxes and benefits expenses related to current year vs projected future year staffing thus highlighting budget vs actual staffing variances, determining vacancy savings and recommending future actions to aid senior management in the decision-making process regarding future staffing requirements
- Partner with program, business, and other departmental leaders to create and manage functional plans and budgets, conduct financial reviews of departments, and provide leaders with business insights to drive growth, efficiency, profitability, and operational improvement
- Prepared and presented monthly, quarterly, and annual financial management reporting including analysis of actual revenue and expenses vs
- Prior years, and actuals vs
- Forecast and budget reports which informed decision making and the creation of interdepartmental program spending plans
- Lead the annual budgeting and planning process as part of the senior management team; administer and review all financial plans and budgets; monitor progress and changes; keep senior leadership team abreast of the organization’s financial status
- Managed the planning and administrative duties related to new hire onboarding and orientation, organize and maintain effective management structure while managing transitions thus demonstrating an ability to provide effective leadership to subordinate staff
- Review all contracts to ensure contractual and regulatory compliance and effective program administration while managing relationship with subcontractors
- Served as a coach and mentor to assigned staff, overseeing the professional development of direct reports
- Carried out ongoing and end-of-year performance appraisals for assigned staff, seeking input from other managers and staff who have worked with the staff member
- Recommended staff for promotions based on their performance during the end- of-year appraisal process
- Participated in the recruitment and hiring of new service area staff
Fiscal Operations Manager - Strategic Operations Unit
District of Columbia Gov’t - Office of the State Superintendent of Education
03.2012 - 04.2016
- Serve as Fiscal manager in the Fiscal Operations department thus leading the day to day strategy and finance operations, coordinating a budget of $255Mil, leading budget reduction review and forecast, and leading the work of a 4-member team in order to support a division of over 40 staff during the Fiscal year ‘13 budget closeout and upstart of a new Fiscal year
- Create strategic change by developing and facilitating a new approach to performance budgeting and forecasting of ~$255Million in division’s federal funds and assisting colleagues in implementing and planning using the new process to align fiscal budget with the agency’s goals and performance metrics
- Proven leadership experience and track record of leading and collaborating with senior leadership team while serving on cross functional team in order to create supports regarding compliance and consistency in all financial matters in accordance with the established strategic approach to business operations
- Plan, Develop and Implement responsible strategy to maintain a Payment Tracking System Action Report Scorecard report, thus helping to decrease division’s overdue contract reimbursement orders from 67% RED rating to 33% GREEN improved processing performance rating in alignment with agency’s goals
- Develop new payment processing and compliance process for fiscal and program teams in order to maximize resources, thus demonstrating the ability to lead complex projects through system change by making decisions that produce high-quality results, by applying technical knowledge, and by analyzing problems and calculating risks
- Manage the planning and administrative duties related to new hire onboarding and orientation, organize and maintain effective management structure while managing transitions during reorganization, team coaching, mentoring and targeted support regarding on-going professional development, thus demonstrating an ability to provide effective leadership to subordinate staff
Fiscal Operations Analyst
District of Columbia Gov’t - Office of the State Superintendent of Education
03.2012 - 04.2016
- Develop and maintain the Fiscal Scorecard Dashboard, a standardized template of reports used to organize, analyze, and graphically display a grant by grant burn rate snapshot for reviewing the rate of spending on various Federal Grant budgets, thus building accountability and monitoring ~$19Mil in expiring federal funds and contributing to the prevention of lapsing funds during Fiscal Year ’12 closeout
- Foster cross- functional and internal collaboration by facilitating the review, planning, and execution of broader agency KPI objectives and goals across program divisions and staff to devise spending plans that ensure the proper alignment of various federal grant budgets in accordance with agency spending goals, thus helping to reallocate funds and contribute to the accessibility and timely drawdown of agency wide federal grant funds
- Review A-133 reports for various sub-recipients such as not- for- profit and educational entities with federal expenditures in excess of $500K in order to ensure compliance with OMB – A-133 and A-87 requirements, to identify critical concerns, and to assist program staff in designating a sub-recipient risk status and corrective action plan
- Assist in the development, documentation and as needed revision of processes associated with responsibilities managed by Fiscal management team and directly effecting the programs assisted by team, in order to disseminate standardize procedures which help to ensure proper and adequate accomplishments of processes related to major program goals and objectives
Senior Compliance and Finance Analyst
Discovery Communications, LLC
03.2011 - 01.2012
- Support US Nets Affiliate Finance accounts receivables by reconciling payments received in SAP system versus invoice payments tracked in AMS (Affiliate Management System) in order to effectively identify, track, manage and resolve any contract compliance issues for approximately 300 small affiliate accounts
- Review and analyze RFPs and executed affiliate contracts and agreements in order to effectively discuss complex terms and conditions with affiliates and or senior management when resolving compliance disputes
- Increase accounts receivable by approximately $1,028,114 through collection efforts on accounts analyzed and identified for contractual non- compliance
- Demonstrate initiative in finding and creating efficiencies for team, using Excel formulas, v-lookups, pivot tables and macros to create reconciliation templates that expediently display and resolve day to day responsibilities
Financial Analyst - Ford Rotational Leadership Development Program
Ford Motor Company
12.2008 - 03.2011
- Organize information from Business Objects queries which display earn out of historical and outstanding service contracts, in order to analyze and update the earned revenue model used for monthly forecast projections
- Work with pricing team and Marketing/Sales managers to develop monthly forecast and budgets based on assumptions for contract sales volumes, dealer claims, earnings ratios, and sales promotion expenses, thus ultimately analyzing actual vs
- Assumptions and presenting business variances and areas for growth to management
- Perform various monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting such as balance sheet reconciliations related to Extended Service Contract Business in Canada; queried ledgers and various databases and prepared all journal entries (in excess of 40/mo.)
- Provide monthly reconciliation of over ninety U.S
- And Canadian accounts and subdivisions netting to over $100mil, thus explaining and validating account transactions to management
- Review, verify, and present to senior management financial accuracy of proposed Variable Marketing programs in order to assess validity of proposal
Education
B.B.A - International Business/Finance
Howard University
Washington, DCSkills
- Data analytics
- Finance operations
- Agile Methodology
- JIRA
- Confluence
- RTC
- SDLC
- Operational planning tools
- Mobile software development life cycle
- Project management skills
- Self-starter
- Product lifecycle management
- Product and people oriented mindset
- UI/UX for mobile app
- Project planning
- Customer relations
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Time management skills
- Attention to details
- Cooperative
- Upbeat professional
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurial and Innovative
- Contract Negotiation
- Start-Up Operations
- Financial Management
- Product Roadmaps
- Investor Relations
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Financial Management Consultant /Financial Controls
GoodLife Medical Center
04.2021 - 05.2024
Fiscal Program
District of Columbia Gov’t
12.2017 - 04.2021
Founder/CEO
The FreeStyle App by FreeStyle, LLC
11.2016 - Current
Director of Finance /Financial Controls
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
04.2016 - 12.2017
Fiscal Operations Manager - Strategic Operations Unit
District of Columbia Gov’t - Office of the State Superintendent of Education
03.2012 - 04.2016
Fiscal Operations Analyst
District of Columbia Gov’t - Office of the State Superintendent of Education
03.2012 - 04.2016
Senior Compliance and Finance Analyst
Discovery Communications, LLC
03.2011 - 01.2012
Financial Analyst - Ford Rotational Leadership Development Program
Ford Motor Company
12.2008 - 03.2011
B.B.A - International Business/Finance
Howard University
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