Neil Smith Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

As the firm’s consulting practice leader, Neil is responsible for leading the teams that develop and deliver advisory services and technology solutions to CrossCountry's clients. He has over twenty years of experience assisting clients with optimizing operations, finance, and accounting functions and leading organizations through complex change initiatives. Neil continues to serve as an advisor to executive-level clients at Fortune 500 and emerging growth organizations across multiple industries.

Vienna, Va, Us

Established a governance model and process to facilitate the corporate adoption of new versions of financial models used throughout a financial services company, including in its financial reporting function. Worked with model and application owners and other key stakeholders across several divisions to develop and present adoption recommendations to senior management and the company’s external auditor. Managed implementation of the adoption plan.

Mclean, Va, Us

Led user testing and training functions for the deployment of a business process management application. Also led the design of an activity based costing program for the Operations division.

Mclean, Va, Us

Managed multi-year program to improve financial management reporting. Developed program objectives, scope, metrics, and budget. Worked with project managers and business leadership to ensure that component projects complied with budgets, schedules, requirements, and architecture standards. Facilitated SVP-level steering committee meetings and communications to report progress and manage risks and issues.

Led a team responsible for stabilizing and accelerating financial close and reporting processes for a large financial services company that had recently completed a restatement of its financial results for the previous several years. Leveraged process modelling software to simulate the end-to-end close process and identify opportunities for improvement.

Amsterdam, Nl

Designed and implemented improved payroll processes and system changes for two utility companies.

Conducted several finance function assessment and transformation projects for multiple clients. The scope of these projects included organization / operating model changes, process improvements, and technology enhancements. Defined future state process architectures and transformation road-maps based on business requirements and leading practices to enable transformations. In many cases, participated in the implementation of the transformation projects.

Washington, D.C., Us