Audra Butler

Enhance Forecast Precision and Process Optimization to Influence Strategy and Eliminate Operational Inefficiencies Recognized for analytical expertise and ability to streamline complex financial processes. Lead planning cycles, enhance reporting capabilities, and identify opportunities for cost savings and operational efficiencies. Committed to providing clear, actionable financial insights while building strong partnerships across all levels of the organization to support informed decision making and sustainable business growth.

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Baxter (2024 – 2026)

• Identified areas of financial risk through proactive and regular collaboration with functional leaders. Supported preparation of and present monthly financial attainment and led discussions regarding financial health of organization.
• Provided financial leadership for Worldwide Medical & Regulatory Affairs, managing operating plans, forecasting, and month‑end close while preparing consolidated reporting for senior leadership; partnered with budget owners to analyze spend vs. budget across $195M operating plan, identifying 10% in savings by challenging assumptions, reviewing YTD trends, and leveraging historical spend data.
• Participated in project to identify how to pull relevant financial data, allowing team to view financial data quickly in a few clicks vs running reports that took more than 20 minutes for each instance and manipulating data dumps into a usable format in excel.

Finance Manager, contract at LaSalle Network (2023 – 2024)

• Supported Transition Service Agreements related to separation of KidneyCo. Reviewed TSA costs, budgets, and forecasts to provide accurate financial visibility and support informed decision making by leadership. Partnered with accounting, IT, HR, and operational teams to monitor TSA performance, analyze costs, and mitigate risks.
• Maintained IT cost envelope across multiple planning cycles, preparing budget scenarios used in the sale of the Kidney business unit; identified which costs remained with Baxter post‑divestiture and quantified budget exposure from discontinued operations.
• Delivered special‑project financial analysis during a period of understaffing, including HR data reviews that identified restructuring‑related cost savings presented monthly to leadership. Collaborated with IT HR business partner to uncover missing or inaccurate data, prompting a talent acquisition-led data‑cleansing initiative.

Senior Manager FP&A at Lundbeck (2021 – 2023)

• Worked collaboratively with Alliance finance partners (Takeda and Otsuka) and accounting team in various financial activities, prepared monthly accruals, generated monthly sales and cost reporting, responsible for reviewing quarterly invoice payments and balance sheet reconciliation for shared commercialization of psych products.
• Worked with sales force incentive compensation team to ensure trimester bonus payouts did not exceed budget; helped leadership self-fund annual promotions as well as stay within budget when backfilling or creating new roles in the field.
• Presented monthly financial package and yearly budget and long-range plan with KPI and risk/opportunities analysis to senior leaders and advised on budget management strategies.
• Led cross-functional meetings and initiated frequent touch base meetings with line of business stakeholders to keep all the financial assumptions in line with the evolving business.

FP&A Manager at Lundbeck (2018 – 2021)

• Coordinated efforts with CMO and budget managers to develop detailed cost center budgets once a year as well as high-level updated forecasts. Focused on streamlining financial process by collaborating with accounting, offshore support team, and headquarters.
• Prepared comparative monthly financial reports, performed variance analysis vs. current forecast (MTD and YTD), and provided commentary on variances for inclusion in monthly reporting submission for the North American business, educating non-finance business partners on finance and how business partners impacted company's financial results.
• Educated finance leadership on importance of Investigator Initiated Trails (IITs) and grants by suggesting and supporting rollout of Medical Information fair where Healthcare Providers (HPs) set up booths and explained programs and impact on community for disease state supported.

Senior Financial Analyst at Lundbeck (2014 – 2018)

• Fundamental point of contact in roll out of a major update to R2P process; acted as subject matter expert, wrote standard operating procedures and policies, and trained employees.
• Worked with sales force team to create a lunch and learn trend and travel analysis reports, which was used in scenario and sensitivity analysis in sales force budget model.
• Provided procurement with data used in RFP process to generate cost savings, which helped business partners negotiate rates with vendors to meet budget reductions on non-personnel expenses of 10%.

Senior Financial Analyst (Lundbeck) at Randstad

Senior Clinical Budget Analyst (Takeda) at Randstad

Senior Financial Analyst (Takeda) at Randstad

Merchandise Operations Contractor at Accounting Principals

Financial Analysis Consultant, Compensation & Benefits at CNA Financial Corporation

Senior Financial Analyst at Kraft Foods

Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Keller Graduate School of Management

Certificate in Human Resource Management

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Accounting – Robert Morris University