Jonathan Pearson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Finance transformation

Birtley, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom

• Responsible for financial management and control of division with 4 manufacturing sites across Europe and through multiple sales companies.• Active member of the ‘Site Leadership Team’ involved in developing and delivering the divisions annual business strategy alongside other functional leaders.• Provide regular information and analysis to General Manager and Leadership Team to ensure effective financial planning, budgeting and forecasting against key performance indicators (e.g. Sales, Orders, Net Earnings, On time delivery, Inventory) including weekly and rolling 18 month forecasts.• Leading finance team responsible for accurate submissions of monthly financial statements, financial analysis, audit compliance and daily interactions with business partners such as business unit managers, operations, corporate accounting and the shared service centre. • Set detailed annual plan for all overhead budget owners in order for division to deliver against profit targets.• Responsible for sitewide financial control through compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and have led annual internal audit of peer locations.• Work closely with market development teams to provide key commercial data and sales analysis.• Partner with business operations, marketing, sales, engineering, R&D and other departments daily through ‘run the business’ meetings to stay in touch with business performance and financial impact.• Implemented new standard costing system.• Delivered accounting for large restructuring projects including closure of a manufacturing site and a large acquisition leading to divisional separation and legal entity mergers.• Enabled team to reduce monthend close time from 158hrs to 76hrs by deploying change management technique.• Monthly payroll and related accruals.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Leading a team of individuals across 2 sub areas responsible for; - Providing accurate P&L forecast and actuals support to the company’s regional and global business unit forecasters and analysts; - Owning finished product level master-data and standard cost setting for Europe, facilitating variance analysis.• Responsible for in-depth financial analysis and reporting across multiple levels of the P&L such as NOS, TDC, MSA, Tax and OIX, for both forecast and monthly actuals.• Establishing improved organisation structures and customer service models, including a query management system, scorecards, customer surveys and work process efficiency changes.• Leading integration of new work into department from forecasting networks based in Geneva and from other service centres globally.• Managing impact of high profile divestiture projects.• Responsible for accuracy of fiscal year actuals and master data hierarchies through technical system restatements.• Regional representative for several key global projects related to finished product costing and forecast support.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Established and led new team dedicated to the accounting of Fixed Assets and Capital projects across over 100 legal entities across Europe.• Delivered yearly US and local GAAP submissions for UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Nordics to legal entity accountants, external auditors and local tax managers.• Designed and rolled out efficient ticket based customer support model and web based self-serve help site. Nominated for regional excellence award.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Provide monthly reporting, analysis and explanation for raw/pack material, finished product and operating costs and variances. Reviewing these analytically with forecasters across 3 global business units.• Ensure monthly Balance Sheets and P&L releases are accurate. Errors identified and corrected.• Accurate allocation of costs via activity based costing for multiple manufacturing plants. Month end close timings reduced from 2 days to 1 day for 3 sites whilst under my ownership through efficiency savings.• Led internal audit for department in Fixed Assets and Plant accounting areas. Coordinated external audit with D&T.• Key departmental contact for major divestiture project of global business. Managed ‘carve out’ of relevant costs from financial statements and established month-end and reporting processes for cutover as part of global project team.• Expert for Transport and Warehouse cost allocations for EMEA region. Received prestigious internal award for process improvements and education provided in this area.• Owner of Fixed Assets & Capital reporting for Tax and local/US GAAP across Belgium, Netherlands and Nordics legal entities.• Key team member in organisational restructuring project; designed and established more efficient structure to deliver internal savings and external customer enhancements. Recognised as a finalist in regional excellence awards.

Mechelen, Belgium

• Responsible for the local cost accounting of the Fabric Care business manufactured onsite.• Responsible for setting standard costs for new Fiscal Year for all raw, pack, intermediate materials and finished products. Including updating product recipes and operating costs.• Performed reporting of actual costs/variances and trend analysis, providing insight into business performance.• Worked closely with production management leaders to identify expected future volumes, production outages, disposals, etc. Highlighted improvement areas and efficiency opportunities.• Built partnership between local finance and Newcastle service centre.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Trained purchasing contacts in the benefits of the low touch invoicing solutions in order to increase volume of vendors using these methods.• Coordinated team of 5 individuals managing the invoicing processes across 50+ sites in Europe.• Represented service centre on global SAP improvement project for invoicing processes during 2 week global workshop in Costa Rica. Results delivered 1000+ hrs savings in region.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Team member of emerging team in Accounts Payable, responsible for limited touch purchase to payment solutions.• Owned solutions such as Self-Billing, Consignment and E-invoicing across multiple sites in Europe. Achieving 100% payment on time and zero failed payments KPIs.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Administrative role tracking outstanding and erroneous customer payments.• Developed customer service and basic analytical skills.