Shannah M Smith Strategy & Ops | M&A Integration | Operating Models | Execution

Senior M&A Integration Project Manager

SentinelOne

Jan 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 10 months)

SentinelOne is the leader in autonomous cybersecurity. SentinelOne’s Singularity™ Platform detects, prevents, and responds to cyber attacks at machine speed, empowering organizations to secure endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identities, and mobile and network-connected devices with speed, accuracy and simplicity. Over 10,000 customers, including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies, as well as prominent governments, trust SentinelOne to secure the future today. To learn more, visit www.sentinelone.com

M&A Integration Manager (Strategy & Project Manager)

Coupa

May 2019 - Jun 2023 (4 years 2 months)

Partnered with functional business owners, executive team and acquired teams and lead and drive all end-to-end M&A integration tracks across all business functions and processes, driving them to successful endings. Managed complex, cross-functional integration related projects across all executive business functions (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, HR, Legal, Facilities, IT, etc.) Drove, owned and evolved integration methodologies and governance, playbooks, web content and diligence items on behalf of the integration function. Identified, proposed, and drove to fruition process improvement and change management initiatives in support of increased efficiency and effectiveness of integration

Project Manager, M&A Finance Integration and Process Improvement

PayPal

Apr 2017 - May 2019 (2 years 2 months)

Collaborated effectively with other cross-functional teams globally and ensure appropriate sponsorship and align stakeholders around initiative goals. Developed concise and compelling business cases for proposed projects. Partnered with cross-functional teams to identify process improvement initiatives. Supported the launch of new products and business initiatives by providing insights to determine areas for optimization and process improvement. Proactively managed risk, anticipated potential issues, and implemented appropriate mitigations. Prepared detailed analysis, plans, milestones, deliverables, and overall status updates.

Senior Accountant-Paypal Integration

PayPal

Jun 2014 - Apr 2017 (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for new acquisitions' integration into existing Finance Operations (Braintree, Paydiant, Modest, Tradera, Xoom, etc). Prepare and optimize month-end close accruals for revenue, expense, and margin and provide reports for management review. Reconcile revenue and cost-related balance sheet accounts. Prepare state sales tax reporting documents and both audit backup (internal and external). Provide ad hoc research requests and provide in-deep analysis on financial results. Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives related to various processes, including reporting, data gathering, & value added analysis.

District Finance and Administration Manager

Univar Solutions

Apr 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year 7 months)

Managed financial operations for both the San Jose, CA ($15M) and AZ Districts ($9M) with 9 total branches. Reviewed and analyzed monthly and quarterly P&L’s and prepared annual budget and business plan that increased operational efficiency by more than 15%. Prepared monthly commentaries and analyses for senior management explaining key revenue and expense variances and quantifying risks and opportunities vs budget and forecast. Served as a regional Super-User for SAP software conversion. Recommended and implemented several expense control programs and measured results. Responsible for business units' compliance with the policies and procedures. Queried databases and built reports from scratch while also helping to automate reporting.

District Administrative Manager (Finance and Accounting)

Penske Truck Leasing

Aug 2004 - Sep 2010 (6 years 2 months)

Managed finance and administrative operations within a $61M district with 14 branches, including finance, AP/AR, inventory, billing, human resources, and customer service. Reorganized administrative department and cross-trained 8 clerks and 2 assistant managers. Prepared annual budget, revenue forecasts, and business plan. Ran month-end close process, investigated expense variances, booked journal entries, updated forecasts, and reported to senior management. Managed physical inventory counts, audits and reconciliations. Served as a financial liaison with upper management. Reconciled large leasing accounts, saving $50K in unaccounted transactions. Managed payroll processing for 80+ employees and facilitated system conversion to ADP/

Accounts Receivable Manager

GSC

Aug 2003 - Aug 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Managed accounting functions, including monthly GL reconciliation and cash-flow projections. Performed AR month-end/quarterly/year-end closings and general ledger entries. Researched and resolved customer account reconciliations and billing issues.

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District Administrative Manager

Lanier Worldwide

Mar 2001 - Nov 2002 (1 year 9 months)

Managed financial and administrative operations within a $10M district sales office, including accounting, inventory, billing, human resources, and customer service. Responsible for recruiting and developing administrative/accounting staff.

Operations Project Manager-Credit

Wells Fargo

Oct 1999 - Nov 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Duties: Managed and tracked success of several complex projects and product launches. Assisted in formulating and implementing changes in policies and procedures that impacted several areas within the organization. Performed routine audits to ensure policy compliance. Successfully handled two software conversions, wrote training manuals, and trained an office of over 25 credit analysts on the new software.

Collections Supervisor

JCPENNEY

Oct 1994 - Sep 1999 (5 years)

Consistently led the number one outbound high-risk collections team through motivational strategies, incentive programs and contests. Helped create motivational strategies, such as incentive programs and contests, to drive quality performance. Supported and communicated the quality standards of effective collection, dunning, and write-off practices. Provided performance feedback to a team of 25 high-risk outbound collectors through informal communications, formal performance reviews, goal setting, and deficiency management.

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