Brad Smith Email & Phone Number

Marietta, GA, US

• Leadership over all accounting operations and reporting, FP&A, and controls compliance for UCB’s Americas region, representing over 50% of UCB global sales, or ~$3 billion. UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company.
• Leadership of team of 15 professionals in US, Mexico, and Brazil; measured team performance and managed relationship with strategic business outsource partner (BPO) in India;
• Drove successful cross-functional collaboration of team with core business operations to achieve objectives
• Headed relationship with external auditors; successful collaboration through annual financial statement audits, which include complex accounting matters with data-driven management assumptions and high risk exposure
• Served as integration lead for Finance for two strategic ~$2 billion + US acquisitions since 2020.
• Engagement in RFP processes for selection of strategic technology and outsource partners

• Responsible for leading the accounting, controlling, financial planning, and treasury functions for US subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschienen, the German-based leading provider of equipment, parts, and service to.
• Leadership over US finance operations including general ledger, accounting operations, financial reporting, budgeting/forecast and analysis, and treasury operations
• Led relationship and engagement with external auditors to successfully complete annual financial statement audits
• Select and implement system solutions to improve efficiency and lower costs
• Established centralized accounting shared services group – managed movement of core accounting processes of foreign affiliates to central location
• Manage hedging strategies to minimize risk from dollar to euro exchange rate fluctuations

Private equity and banking relations; Investment Analysis; Management Reporting to Stakeholders; Audit management, Human Resources, Risk Management; M&A; Played a pivotal role in the successful sale of the company in early 2008

Silicon Valley StartupDeveloped capital intensive business plans as part of investor presentations and board discussions