Ruth Purdy Email & Phone Number

Bay Village, Ohio, United States

Winchester, Hampshire, GB

West Drayton, Middlesex, GB

• Preparing consolidated management reporting for 46 hotels and production of monthly executive pack
• Manage forecasting and budget process including ownership of planning tool and reporting templates

Reading, Berkshire, GB

• Worked within Digital function at Thames Water responsible for all reporting and forecasting for service delivery costs.
• Using SAP and excel to track and prepare financial reporting for all costs relating to service delivery including headcount and annual maintenance contracts. Leading monthly meetings with all cost centre owners.
• Preparing budgets, quarterly forecasts and maintaining rolling forecast for eight cost centres, month end tasks including central finance control reporting and financial compliance include balance sheet recs.
• Continuously carrying out detailed analysis into accruals and budget lines validating requirements, identifying risks and opportunities which previously had not been well understood.
• Automated monthly tech file to complete month end processes in a reduced amount of time allowing much more time for better analysis which drives more accurate results prior to closing the month and developing monthly.
• Lead support from finance team, in implementation of Apptio tool, providing data, reviewing and validating output from Apptio.

Purchase, New York, US

• West Supply Chain Finance Analyst analysing Cost of good (COGs) across Western Europe, supporting decision making via preparation of insightful reporting and presentations.
• Support preparation of the COGS AOP and forecasts with harmonised templates, consolidation and presentations.
• Preparing consolidated periodic COGS reporting using HFM and liaising with the six business units for explanations of key variances including risks and opportunities.
• Identifying areas for harmonisation and improvement across BU COGS processes.

Purchase, New York, US

• Responsible for building the annual operating plan, maintaining forecasts and preparing periodic reporting on a £19m IT budget.
• Part of the IT senior leadership team, lead a monthly finance meeting to review the periodic reports. Highlight issues, risks and opportunities to facilitate hitting plan and deliver the function objectives.
• Maintaining relationships with sector IT and provision of UK IT forecasts and actuals using an IT Hyperion interface.
• Work closely with a wide range of purchase requestors, project managers and budget owners to ensure that spend is accurately accounted for.

Purchase, New York, US

• Walkers Finance Analyst providing support to manufacturing sites within the UK and being the first point of contact for queries from site finance teams. Key responsibilities included:
• Leading review and roll up of each sites periodic results, reporting against AOP (or current forecast) ensuring sites have recorded all financial transactions correctly and cause of change shows accurate periodic.
• Preparation of BPC (planning tool) and templates for each forecast cycle, validating forecasts across sites for consistency and accuracy, challenging sites for justification of each cause of change.
• BPC superuser for raw materials and labour using detailed knowledge of the application, recipes and site processes to set up BPC for each forecast cycle, support the inventory team with recipe management and.
• Managed a direct report who supported me in this role.

Purchase, New York, US

• Finance Analyst for the Coventry manufacturing site of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd, supporting the site finance manager. In this role my key responsibilities were:
• Building an annual plan for site of £100 million made up of three areas raw materials, MOH and labour.
• Close monitoring of the weekly site reports, ensuring any variances to standard were investigated and explained. Monthly periodic reporting for site and head office including BOY forecast and productivity review.
• Day to day management of the cost technicians with their weekly tasks to enable them to deliver accurate and timely reports.
• Key member of the analyst team which drove excellent working relationships sharing best working practices. Built and maintained strong relationships with other site finance teams.

Coventry, West Midlands, GB

• Supported the company accountant with the financial reporting and maintenance of CUE Ltd, providing support including finance training to all areas of the company. Monthly meetings with divisional directors to help.
• Responsible for the month end processes of five divisions which included accruals, deferrals and reserves, reviewing and posting the bad debt journal, producing monthly budgetary reporting for the company with variance.
• Maintaining the asset register and posting depreciation journals for the year. Analysing all new transactions and calculating depreciation for each new asset as per the Universities regulations, including capital.
• Supported in the production of the statutory accounts of CUE Ltd, pulling together the year end folder with supporting files for the accounts and providing the first point of contact for the auditors.