Dusty Terflinger

Vice President of Operations and Finance @ Ascentist Healthcare

About

Dusty Terflinger is an accomplished business operations leader with over 20 years of experience in operations planning, analysis, and leadership roles. In his current role, Dusty is responsible for oversight of all financial processes, accounting department, Billing and collections, facilities, and back office staff. Other responsibilities include developing financial tools to allow our physicians better insight to workflow and capturing revenue. Leading merger and acquisition growth initiatives. He continually demonstrates the ability to communicate with all levels of management and deliver useful and concise information. Dusty's proven work ethic and personal drive to continually think outside the box and on a broader scale have been recognized across the companies he has worked for on multiple occasions. Most recently as a OptumRx Rx Amethyst Award winner 2016, Dex Media Excellence Award winner in 2013.. Dusty was recognized for his performance by receiving the Dex One Chairman's 2009 award. In 2010 Dusty was awarded the Dex One Top of Class award as well as being a nominee for the Chairman's award in 2008. Dusty has proven to be a go to person for data utilization, operations knowledge and problem solving skill with in his organization. Dusty continues to excel beyond that point by demonstrating the ability to be a valuable asset to other groups within Marketing, and Finance as a go to person in strategic planning on various projects from creation to completion.

Country

United States

City

Olathe

Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Skill

Hospitals, Healthcare Management, Healthcare, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Accounting, Operations Management, Direct Mail, Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Strategy, Account Management, B2B, Marketing, New Business Development, Sales, Social Media, Event Planning, Business Development

Experience

Vice President of Operations and Finance

Ascentist Healthcare

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Capacity Planner

UnitedHealth Group

2015-2 - 2021-5 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Overland Park, Kansas

Project Manager / Analyst

DexYP

2006-4 - 2015-3 · 9 yrs

Overland Park, KS

ACCOMPLISHMENTS- Dex Media CEO Excellence Award winner in 2013, 2010 CEO Top Class Award, 2009 CEO Chairman's Award winner, 2008 CEO Chairman's Award Nominee. - Responsibilities included creation and management of a $200M budget and forecast. - Monthly KPI reporting to senior executive lead team. - Management of large projects with major impacts to the company. - Investigated and resolved discrepancies in monthly reporting while under tight deadlines. - Reduced closing time for monthly reporting close by 35% by creating new consolidation procedures. - Restructured and analyzed AMDOCS based systems to improve budgeting and reporting. - Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand the impacts and projected savings to the company. - Created monthly PowerPoint presentations illustrating business performance and goals to the executive team. - Documented process flows and developed requirements for functional improvements and enhancements. - Conducted cost, schedule, contract performance, variance and risk analysis. - Coached and mentored staff members by offering constructive feedback and taking interest in their long-term career growth.

Customer Service/ Purchasing

Print Time

2005-4 - 2006-4 · 1 yr 1 mo

Overland Park, KS

- Customer Service- Developed, implemented and monitored programs to maximize customer satisfaction. - Provided a high level of product and leadership support to representatives and clients. - Management of bindery, operation of production copiers, and mail operations, purchasing of paper/equipment

Regional Account Manager

Xerox

2004-5 - 2005-5 · 1 yr 1 mo

Joplin, Missouri Area

- Authorized Xerox Sales Representative for Southeast Kansas - Wrote, proofed and edited sales proposals and correspondence. - Consistently secured new accounts, resulting in a significant increase in year over year revenue. - Team Management and office promotions.