Ruth Pearson Email & Phone Number

London

I am currently the Finance Manager for a major change programme responsible for: - Managing a small finance team that supports the programme.- Working with people across various parts of the business including Network and Sales, Industrial Relations and HR.- Ensuring the benefits are embedded into budgets by budget adjustments and have challenged shortfalls which have led to teams accepting and producing action plans to negate the risks.- Ensuring investments made achieve… Show more I am currently the Finance Manager for a major change programme responsible for: - Managing a small finance team that supports the programme.- Working with people across various parts of the business including Network and Sales, Industrial Relations and HR.- Ensuring the benefits are embedded into budgets by budget adjustments and have challenged shortfalls which have led to teams accepting and producing action plans to negate the risks.- Ensuring investments made achieve the required returns and have challenged to guarantee benefit for the business for example in the sale of a Freehold property and providing recommendations on the business cases.- I developed spread sheets and documentation to monitor the performance of the programme with the requirement of them being audited for the Report and Accounts. - Reporting to the various change committees and Government the benefits and expenditure of the programme and identifying the risks and opportunities as well as variances to budget.- I successfully challenged the business interpretation of Onerous Lease standard which lead to a P&L improvement. Show less

Developed a spread sheet to forecast daily cash flows to determine loan requirements and period budgets. I updated and monitored this weekly explaining any variances. Was part of a team working with an external company to improve the Bureau hedging where I reported the impact of the hedges periodically by dual running the two arrangements and comparing them. Additionally I forecast holdings by currency to provided changes to the hedge.

Was the finance manager responsible for a key product growth area where I:- Managed a small finance team to support the Director of a Commercial team.- Supervised and challenged the calculation of calendarised income and expenditure budget to ensure achievable budgets.- Prepared monthly presentations for the Commercial Director to report finances to the Commercial Team explaining variances and discussing plans to resolve them.- Kept a Risk and Opportunities register for the… Show more Was the finance manager responsible for a key product growth area where I:- Managed a small finance team to support the Director of a Commercial team.- Supervised and challenged the calculation of calendarised income and expenditure budget to ensure achievable budgets.- Prepared monthly presentations for the Commercial Director to report finances to the Commercial Team explaining variances and discussing plans to resolve them.- Kept a Risk and Opportunities register for the area.- Understood the implications of investments ensuring the correct process is followed, challenged assumptions and provided a recommendation.- Manage the audit requirements for the area ensuring the requirements are understood and provided on time. - Work closely with a Joint Venture for income forecasting and new product introductions. Show less

I have outstanding Excel Skills and have used them to produce Excel models for a number of Strategic changes and new products. For example:- Produced a spread sheet that was capable of analysing future Strategy over a number of years with the flexibility to enable various changes to inputs and scenarios to be run. The output of the model was the impact on P&L, Balance sheet and cash flow. - Developed a spread sheet to help formulate proposals for negotiations with a Union by looking… Show more I have outstanding Excel Skills and have used them to produce Excel models for a number of Strategic changes and new products. For example:- Produced a spread sheet that was capable of analysing future Strategy over a number of years with the flexibility to enable various changes to inputs and scenarios to be run. The output of the model was the impact on P&L, Balance sheet and cash flow. - Developed a spread sheet to help formulate proposals for negotiations with a Union by looking at the cost and benefits of a number of initiatives- Built a spread sheet to understand the implication on c350 outlets of various initiatives to inform business decisions on strategy. The output was the expected benefits and costs and impact on P&L.- Created a spread sheet to calculate the impact of the introduction of a new Sales Terminal looking at impact on income and costs. The output of the model was to produce the Investment Analysis for the case.I have a back ground in Operational Research which ensures a methodical approach to analysing data and trends- Analysing data to assess the benefits of an initiative such as changes to staffing.- Assessing the impact of a change in accounting for multi-unit properties.- Trend analysis to forecast future revenue by c350 outlets. Show less

Bsc Morse, Maths, Operational Research, Statistics And Economics, 2I Bsc Hons

Fcca, Accounting