Shavone Harrison Smith, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

Resourceful Consultant with over 25 years of experience. Extensive background in accounting, finance, and project management.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Led an internal legal entity merger collapse of Synovus Mortgage into the parent, Synovus Bank, generating an annual tax savings of $4 million in 90 days.
• Coordinated internal workstreams, government agencies, and vendors for a successful Legal Day 1
• Ensured customer communication was aligned within compliance standards
• Created and managed project budget with favorable financial results

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Led major technology vendor multi-year contract renegotiation with an annual spend in excess of $6 million.
• Managed multiple contract workstreams: Core Banking (master contract, pricing, and service levels) and Trust
• Facilitated and documented Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to serve as an addendum to the Master Contract
• Evaluated proposals and coordinated work efforts with pricing negotiation vendor
• Engaged and solicited input from lines of business owners regarding product subscriptions
• Created and completed contract renewal data collection template

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provide monthly executive reporting both reoccurring and ad hoc.
• Produce a monthly executive portfolio report, which includes gathering data, leading work sessions, and working with Executives
• Streamlined the monthly board reporting to the parent company
• Facilitated with finance team and senior leaders the fiscal year plan for 119 projects for $250 million
• Lead the Campus Recruitment for talent pipeline
• Managed staffing process by ensuring all request are reviewed, summarized, and submitted timely for leadership approval and tracking to fulfillment

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed multiple year end government reports that focus on Fixed Assets and Foreign Subsidiaries. This required understanding the requirements, appropriately applying the criteria, while gathering information from various data suppliers, and meeting key deliverables timely.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Support a Technology Team from a management of headcount, financials, and other key deliverables to allow the management team to function.
• Managed staffing process by ensuring all request are reviewed, summarized, and submitted timely for leadership approval and tracking to fulfillment
• Supported an organization with greater than 500 resources, where it is key to track movement and initiative billings due to financial constraints
• Facilitated weekly team meetings and documenting key content and action items
• Assisted with local hub leadership for the team to provide opportunities for a dispersed team to connect around leadership meetings and community service
• Served as the market Co-Chair for Community Volunteers helping to achieve over 40,000 volunteer hours by encouraging associates and their families to become involved in their community

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provided Project Management in the Home Loans/Legacy Assets during the economic down turn.
• Established and led process to receive funding of $696,000 for government reporting for small enhancements
• Provided Project Management Organization (PMO) support to the $3.3 million on government reporting Portfolio
• Led $2.5 million May 2011 deployment of a Treasury Reporting project, which improved reporting for modifications and increased incentive received
• Improved the success rate of reporting loan modifications to the US Treasury via remediation efforts, which provided improved the Generation I system while Next Generation was in development
• Collected, prioritized, and managed key US Treasury data remediation efforts and projects that effect the Treasury Reporting Process

Greater Atlanta Area

• Project manager for various Engineering and Operations initiatives.
• Co-Team Leader on Invoice Validation Greenbelt Project, which has saved $2.3 million
• Improved Software Hierarchy Forecast Accuracy from 2006 to 2007 by working with finance team and vendors
• Prepare, collect, and complete monthly management reporting for senior management scorecards.
• Backup the weekly Capital Review Meeting for Engineering and Operations
• Assisting in the implementation of the CPU Tool for Engineering and Operations

Greater Atlanta Area

• Financial Controller/Analyst for Technology and Operation organization in management of over $225 million in software and personnel expenses.
• Developed a forecast template that support forecasting at subgroup level, which provided a consolidated financials.
• Assisted in the creation on the monthly financial reporting package used to update Senior Leadership Team.
• Provided financial support for the software organization for a year due to delay in backfilling.
• Supported the Total Cost of Ownership Storage Services study and the Gartner Benchmarking for two years.
• Managed the financials for major groups within the Network Computing Group.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Directly support the Controller’s Organization with budget preparation and analysis, research and resolution on expenses, and various special projects.
• Prepared presentation for the Controller to be delivered to the Chief Financial Officer related to current budget status.
• Participated in Merger Integration Initiatives by tracking Merger Savings and Expenses for the Joint Venture between previous Southwestern Bell and BellSouth.
• Coordinated the collection and consolidation of information received from the Executive Director’s of the Accounting Organization for several regions.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed a team of five responsible for the accurate and timely recording of over $250 million in monthly revenue.
• Transitioned the revenue accounting function from the headquarters from Dallas to Atlanta, in addition to converting other markets to Atlanta.
• Staffed the organization in Atlanta to assume the responsibilities previously handled in Dallas, New York, and Midwest Markets previously owned by previously Southwestern Bell.
• Developed a transition plan to centralize the market accounting function at headquarters.
• Analyzed, investigated, and explained revenue fluctuations during month end close.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed four team members handling the daily processes related to cash inflows and outflows: accounts payable, commission accounting, claim payments, and premium deposits.
• Learned the various aspects of the AS400 system as it relates to accounts payable, commission accounting, claim payments, and premium deposits.
• Educated team members on Microsoft Software Office Suite.
• Documented the credit card payment process to assist with information technology and customer service for system enhancements.
• Worked to establish and document the accounting process with the outsourced collection vendor.
• Established an aggressive collection process for agent receivable balances by working with Sales and Marketing Team and written communication with the agents.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Analyzed and reported General Electric Financial Assurance’s (GEFA) financial results to General Electric Capital Corporation.
• Consolidated, and analyzed the finance benchmarking data for GEFA, which was reported to GE Capital.
• Coordinated with the Financial Systems team the quarterly close process by developing deadlines, checklists, and communicating status.
• Improved the reporting for the Mexico operation by creating a process that validated the accuracy of the information provided prior to financial system submission.
• Measured, analyzed and identified opportunities to reduce manual journal entries in the financial reporting system.
• Developed and implemented guidelines, which provide greater controllership around the process of issuing purchasing cards.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

• Lead the consolidation of the $250 million accounts payable and fixed assets to corporate to achieve cost and headcount reductions.
• Recommended to and accepted by management the consolidation of accounts payable and fixed assets by completing cost benefit analysis and bench marking of other accounts payable processes.
• Setup, tested, designed, and implemented the Oracle Payables System and process based on GE Financial Assurance’s business decisions and goals.
• Transitioned four of eight corporate sites to consolidated accounts payable process.
• Created job descriptions, interviewed, and hired the accounts payable and fixed assets associates.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Department leader of six for annual disbursements of $4.8 billion in diverse payments: policyholder claims, structured settlements, annuities, commissions, and vendors. Other responsibilities included department.
• Transitioned the company to the Oracle Accounts Payable System.
• Implemented Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payment method to increase customer service to insurance agents.
• Improved financial planning and analysis reports by converting seven thousand annuity payments to line of business codes, which allowed cost benefit analysis by line of business.

Fort Myers, Florida Area

• Team leader of twenty in a dynamic environment responsible for auditing the $17 billion accounts payable process of the General Electric Company in duplicated payments, verification of vendor payments, and wire.
• Increased corporation’s cash flow by $790,000 ensuring top vendors were paid within discount period.
• Reduced overpayments by $100 million by increasing duplicate audit edits from three to eleven.
• Downsized team by three with outsourcing check printing and on-line reporting.

Wood Dale, IL

• Supported eighteen General Electric Supply distribution branches by stating the inventory balance accurately, researching vendor claims, analyzing cost variances, maintaining intercompany billings between General.
• Supported physical inventory process including surplus/deficit reconciliation of eighteen branches.
• Revalued company’s inventory for reporting purposes using Last In, First Out (LIFO) Method.
• Trained an inventory accounting specialist on cost accounting procedures.

Fort Myers, Florida Area

• Analyzed General Electric’s Medical Systems assets to classify for depreciation purposes in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Reduced uncapitalized assets by 32%, from $19 million to $13 million within nine months.
• Completed medical systems fixed assets corporate year end reporting for 1994 General Electric Financial Statements.

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Fraternity, Senior Class Treasurer, ALOBEAEM - Accounting Club, Delta Sigma Theta.

High School, Academic - North Carolina Scholars

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Varsity Cheerleader, Spanish Honor Society, Vocational Honor Society, Musical, Girls.