Finance Director résumé example

A finance leader across healthcare, software and cooperatives, told in team size, plan accuracy and cash freed.

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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.
Took days in accounts receivable from 62 to 38 by rebuilding the denials workflow with the revenue cycle team, freeing

1M of cash.

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

Why this Finance Director résumé works

Forecast accuracy is stated against history: the 2025 plan closed “within 1.4% of the revenue forecast, the tightest of the last six plans”. Boards hire finance directors for that kind of reliability.
Cash results sit beside profit: days in receivables from 62 to 38 freed 1M of cash, and the payer contract restructure added $9.2M of annual contribution. Both are numbers a CEO repeats.
Three sectors, healthcare at Larkspur Health Partners, software and a dairy cooperative, are each shown with the finance problem specific to them, such as margin volatility cut from 4.2 points to 1.6 through hedging.
The board treasurer role is quantified too, a
40k deficit turned into a balanced budget, showing governance experience outside the day job.

Finance Director résumé: common questions

What should a finance director resume include?

Team size and scope, plan and forecast accuracy, cash and working capital results, financing or deal work, and board reporting. Name the systems (NetSuite, Workday Adaptive Planning) and the CPA or MBA in the header or a credentials section.

How long should a finance director resume be?

Two pages. Senior roles get four or five bullets each; audit and early roles can shrink to one or two lines that show where your technical accounting came from.

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