Dana Stefanczyk

Dana brings diverse experience across multiple sectors — including private equity, privately-held, and publicly-traded companies, government entities, and nonprofits — for industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail and consumer goods, travel and hospitality, real estate, technology, and education.

Dana’s professional experience includes:

• Conducted a finance assessment for a $1 billion PE-owned client in the consumer services industry to identify opportunities across finance organization structure, processes, and technology, and improve EBITDA and working capital.
• Built and ran the transformation office of a rapidly growing PE-owned real estate company. As part of this engagement, developed the project management function for the organization to support initiative coordination and execution and ensure initiatives achieved desired results. Was directly responsible for process reengineering projects to develop stable and scalable processes within finance and identified and executed cost savings and revenue enhancement opportunities for repairs and maintenance of an estimated $610 million.
• Created and managed a direct cash flow model for a fleet and mobility company with over $2.5 billion in assets under management.
• Modeled securitization cash flows for multiple facilities. The model was instrumental in helping the company navigate a period of critically tight liquidity and ultimately secure additional funding.
• Supported the finance department of a $1 billion school district, where she developed a weighted student funding model to determine school revenue allocations and a bottom-up budget model to build individual school budgets.
• Served in the finance organization of a state Medicaid agency, where she led the development of a $2.7 billion budget, produced forecasting and reporting tools, and conducted in-depth fiscal impact analyses, including assessment of cost drivers. Her analysis was critical in evaluating proposed policy changes, informing stakeholders, and assisting in decision-making.
• Served as the Interim Vice President of Internal Audit for a PE-owned real estate company. Stood up the function and conducted an organizational risk assessment. Performed audits and advised on process improvements across numerous financial, operational, and compliance areas. Led fraud and employee conduct investigations.

Prior to Ankura, Dana was a director in the chief financial officer solutions practice at a global consulting firm, and before that, a manager within the public sector solutions practice at a global business advisory firm. She has also held finance roles at a university and for a non-profit advocacy organization.