Experts & Advisors
Katy Dettman
Managing Director
Katy Dettman is a Managing Director specializing in turnaround and restructuring, with expertise in accounting, financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, and interim management. Additionally, Katy has extensive experience in the healthcare industry. Katy has transformed and led finance processes and teams and is particularly adept at diagnosing companies’ bottlenecks and systemically working through solutions for her clients.
Experience
Katy supports her clients across finance and accounting functions, including technical accounting and reporting needs, outsourcing/co-sourcing, staff training/education, and special projects.
Katy has provided hands-on leadership serving in numerous interim roles, including:
- Interim Vice President, Decision Support, for a multi-location, national leader in women’s health
- Interim Controller for multi-location, national leader in dermatology and cosmetic services
- Interim Controller/Accounting Leader for multi-location, large regional radiology practice
- Interim Chief Accounting Officer for multi-location, national physician-owned provider of emergency medicine, hospitalist, and observation services
- Interim Associate Vice President of Finance/Corporate Controller for large academic health system
Prior to joining Ankura, Katy was a principal in a risk and accounting advisory practice where she grew and led the healthcare accounting and internal audit group. Katy also served in accounting and finance industry roles with Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and Fairview Health System in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Katy has deep, hands-on experience in healthcare revenue cycle, reimbursement accounting, accounts receivable valuation, general ledger/ERP system implementations, budgeting/forecasting and analysis, as well as management, board, private equity and lender reporting. Katy began her career in public accounting, at a Big 4 company in their audit and transaction services healthcare groups.
- Education
- MA, Iowa State University
- BS, Accounting, Iowa State University
- Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant