Tessa Lindgren — Finance Director
Minneapolis, MN
Finance leader with sixteen years across healthcare, software and agricultural cooperatives, now running a team of fourteen for a $410M provider group. Restructured 31 payer contracts to add $9.2M of annual contribution.
Experience
Finance Director, Larkspur Health Partners · January 2022 – present
FP&A, accounting and revenue cycle for a $410M multi-site provider group.
- Leads a finance team of fourteen across FP&A, accounting and revenue cycle, reporting to the chief executive and the board finance committee.
- Delivered the 2025 operating plan two weeks early and closed the year within 1.4% of the revenue forecast, the tightest of the last six plans.
- Restructured the payer contract model across 31 agreements, lifting net revenue per visit by 8 and adding $9.2M of annual contribution.1M of cash.
- Took days in accounts receivable from 62 to 38 by rebuilding the denials workflow with the revenue cycle team, freeing
- Led diligence on a $55M credit facility that closed 175 basis points inside the facility it replaced.
Senior Finance Manager, Cedar Loop Software · March 2018 – December 2021
- Built the FP&A function at a 320-person software company from one spreadsheet to a modeled plan across seven cost centers and 41 budget owners.
- Replaced quarterly guesswork on net revenue retention with a monthly cohort view, which the board used to move $4M of spend from new logos to expansion.
- Ran the finance workstream on two acquisitions worth $87M combined, with both onto a single ledger within a quarter of close.
FP&A Manager, Thorsen Dairy Cooperative · June 2014 – February 2018
- Rebuilt the hedging model for milk and feed inputs, cutting gross margin volatility from 4.2 points to 1.6 over two seasons.
- Ran the annual budget for 11 plants and 1,400 employees, delivering the first on-time plan in five years.
- Replaced a 90-tab budget workbook with a planning tool, taking each plant submission from three days to four hours.
Audit Senior, Aldrich Petrie LLP · September 2010 – May 2014
- Led fieldwork on health system and cooperative clients with revenue up to $900M.
- Qualified as a CPA while carrying a nine-client busy-season caseload.
Education
- MBA Business Administration · Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota · September 2016 – May 2019
- B.S. Accounting · University of Minnesota Twin Cities · September 2006 – May 2010
Skills
- Finance leadership: Operating plan, Board reporting, Team building, Debt financing, Acquisition integration, Pricing strategy
- Analysis: Three-statement modeling, Unit economics, Payer contract modeling, Scenario planning, Cash forecasting
- Domain: Revenue cycle, Healthcare reimbursement, US GAAP, Subscription metrics, Commodity hedging
- Systems: Workday Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, Snowflake, Power BI, Excel, SQL
Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) — Minnesota Board of Accountancy