Steven Smith

About Steven Smith

I am a Financial Leader who drives economic thinking to the business through the office of the CFO. I am a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP & A) and Accounting Leader with nearly 20 years of experience serving as a strategic business partner. I have a proven ability to bridge vision, strategy, and execution by developing cross-functional partnerships, delivering data-driven insights, and driving profitability and efficiency. As I learned from a great leader early in my career, being highly curious and customer focused has led me to help my constituents uncover opportunity, close gaps, and realize long-term value. I am recognized for bringing a unique blend of corporate and hands-on operational finance expertise having served in both corporate finance and field operations roles. I am passionate about people and building high-performing teams while fostering a culture of servant leadership.I lead through Principles such as integrity, respect, humility, customer focus, bottoms-up solutions, economic thinking, creative destruction, innovation, principled entrepreneurship, mutual benefit, serving others, and many more. Where and how did I learn this? Through great leaders that came before me. Ones that embodied the principles that lead to success. Let’s be the Catalyst. If that resonates with you, then let’s connect.Core Competencies include:•Strategic Financial Planning•Financial Modeling•Capital Planning & Allocation•Financial Reporting•Controllership•Ad-hoc and Variance Analysis•Manufacturing Finance•Operational Efficiency•Cost Reduction Strategies•Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Tracking•Business Process Optimization•Systems and Project Implementation•Team Leadership & Development•Business Partnering•Stakeholder Communication•Change Management•High-Performance Team Building•Best Practice Adherence

Experience

1. Division Fp & a Controller Director, Professional Paper (Ttn), Consumer Products Division

   Georgia-Pacific LLC

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Finance and Accounting leader for the multi-billion-dollar Commercial (Professional) Towel, Tissue, Napkin (TTN) operating segment, comprising 5 US based operating facilities in Savannah, GA, Muskogee, OK, Green Bay, WI, and Plattsburg, NY. • In the last three years, helped drive exponential growth, leading the Commercial business to its highest returns ever through productivity increases, margin and cost improvements, strategic investments, and bottom-line performance.• Reporting to the VP of CPG Finance, served as the Primary Business Partner to the VP of Manufacturing. Collaborated with a cross functional team of operations, transformation, finance, accounting, supply chain, purchasing, engineering, information technology, and human resource leaders.• Led a team of 9 Controller/FP & A professionals across corporate and field locations, fostering culture and results through comparative advantage, coaching, skill development, and economic thinking to build and sustain a high performing team.

Education

• Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

• University of West Florida

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)