Christopher Smith Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

● Conducted month end and year end plan vs. actuals reporting in compliance with GAAP standards.● Performed in-depth FTE rate and hours (PQ) analysis on construction projects to explain plan vs. actual variances.● Reviewed results with Engineering leaders to improve overall labor costs; Improved rate and hours mix resulting in a 5% gross margin increase.● Supported the Operations teams by creating a month end and year end cost reporting package designed to share Last Period, LTD, and Forecast to Complete measures.● Shared insights on possible ways to optimize the future cost performance and paths to perform to plan.● Streamlined sub-contractor onboarding process by 30 days. Established onboarding pipeline report to ensure proper and timely set up. Improved subcontractor payments, goodwill and legal issues.● Improved cost forecasting visibility from 60 days to 7 days via direct vendor engagement.● Created a detailed forecast of all potential contract over runs and change orders.● Created detailed equipment and labor reports on projects to support Contract Change order requests. Led to a 13% or $400K revenue improvement.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Researched potential sellers based on client needs and then presented findings to our advisor who would choose to pursue or not • Meet with potential sellers (Executives) to interview their company • Prepared a detailed overview of the conversations from the conducted interview • If the seller was a proper fit, I prepared a formal deliverable to our client from the information gathered from our interviews • Meet weekly with my advisor to answer detailed questions about the M&A industry

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Created a three-year revenue plan for the PEAR division • Prepared debt refinance scenarios using amortization schedules for comparison analysis in Excel• Migrated 3 SAS Visual Analytics dashboards to PowerBi dashboards to improve aesthetics and user consumption• Conducted vendor research: Identified vendors leveraging AI to scan for the market for MS Azure technical talent. • Calculated planned Revenue, COGS, P/L, and Gross Margin for Consulting project proposals• Built a mini business case template in Excel to compare competing innovation projects that captured basic in and out cash flows, calls NPV and IRR to evaluate proposed innovation concepts. • Created a PPTX presentation to teach new hires about Consulting

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Finance, General, Graduated

Transcript: file:///C:/Users/dvdsm/OneDrive/Documents/University%20of%20Alabama/Transcript%20as%20of%20December%202021.pdf

Economics, Business, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Club Soccer