Jeremy Koczan
CFO, SMX
Through the efforts of Jeremy Koczan and his team, SMX has a new suite of powerful analytical tools to help gain tremendous efficiencies as the company continues to scale the business and provide a strong foundation for future platform expansion and acquisition integrations.
Koczan recently led an internal and external project team of more than 40 individuals to complete the full-scale enterprise resource planning system migration to Deltek Costpoint, a process that took nearly two years to complete and involved integrating four acquisition companies into a single instance of Costpoint within a new and improved cost accounting structure. At the same time, the team also installed SEMFIN FocusPoint, allowing for higher level budgeting, forecasting and analysis across SMX’s many hundreds of client programs.
“Jeremy’s executive leadership extends well beyond traditional CFO responsibilities,” said SMX CEO Peter LaMontagne. “He is my partner across all aspects of SMX strategic planning and execution. Jeremy is critical to our success.”
Why Watch
In 2023, Koczan and his team are shifting their focus from building their business operations environment to optimizing the systems and tools within it. Enhanced business automation platforms and next-generation workflows, real-time analysis dashboards and streamlined financial reporting tools will allow for improved decision-making at the speed of business. Now that SMX is on a singular system and business operations platform, the team can focus on capturing additional efficiency gains and increasing analysis by reducing labor-based activities via automation, he said.
“Sustainable growth is the only way to truly drive stakeholder value, and as a result, we must focus on profitability and margin expansion as a key tenet of that growth,” Koczan said. “But equally important is being predictable as that demonstrates that the leadership has a sound and capable plan and can execute all of the fundamental concepts of business to attain success towards that goal. By achieving predictable, profitable growth, the business will be on sound footing to produce long-term value to those who matter most: clients, employees, shareholders and the community.”