1. CV Stewart Pearce LLB ACMA 02392 847002 / 07947 440200
Personal Overview
I am a diligent, tenacious, goal orientated qualified Accountant with over 25 years experience in the Private
sector, at Board and Management levels. I have built up a wealth of experience, including roles as Finance
Director, Financial Controller, Project Manager, Change Manager & Systems Implementation Director. I
have extensive experience in Budgetary Control, SAP & Oracle implementation, testing, operation &
business liason. I am competent & assured in all aspects of Management and Financial Accounting in a
local UK & Global context.
Work Overview
My principal strength is Finance, Project Management, and Systems Development & Implementation.
I have spent over 20 years working for large companies & also have extensive experience supporting small
& medium sized enterprises (most recently as a UK Government sponsored Growth Coach).
Finance Roles:
 Full management & reporting. Revenue, Opex and Capex (including Actuals, Budget & Forecast) -
up to a pan-european opex budget of $1.1bn & UK revenue of c£960m
 Team management (various sizes) including, coaching, motivating & leading
 Managing international banking transactions using different financial instruments (e.g. Letters of
Credit, Bank Guarantees) & Global Credit Card relationships
 Managing external relations with banks, consultancies, corporate financiers, lawyers, angels &
venture capitalists & advising MBO bid & contingency planning
 Identifying, analysing & resolving problem areas such as variance analysis & spend tracking
 Providing full accounting & consultancy advice to SME’s (up to c£150m T/O, Lancsville
Construction) Company Registration & Company Secretarial support.
Project Roles:
 Successfully led Avaya UK Spin-Off from Lucent & implemented SAP for UK operations
 Managing the change to c£360 million p.a. cash alternatives, via Prince 2 methodology
 Outsourcing property portfolio management (21 properties £7million p.a.)
 Divisional restructuring to transit & reduce current finance staffing (510 to 310)
 Outsourcing Facilities & Supply Chain functions (£60m & £6m Opex)
 Recruited independent Finance Team and established AP function in UK
 Repatriation, Centralisation & Decentralisation of Shared Service Centres
 Implementation of European Transfer Pricing arrangement & evaluation
 Identification & resolution of issues in a change management environment
 Successfully managing the disposal of foreign subsidiaries ($5-30m) in France, Belgium & Germany
 Modelling Business Plan for competitive acquisition bid & enhancing management reporting model.
Systems Roles:
 Successful delivery of fully configured & operative SAP system for UK operation
 Being the only one of 82 SAP countries to be Business Ready on Go-Live day
 Full Oracle R12 ‘Project Accounting’ implementation & existing Oracle development programs
 Acting as interface between operational businesses & Oracle Functional Consultants team to
ensure future business requirements are satisfied. (AP, AR, GL & Cash within the Finance Module)
 Managing systems migration from MFG Pro to Hyperion
 Troubleshooting installed bespoke Mentor accounting system.
Additional Achievements:
 Identified & Initiated Global Modem Pricing Review - £100M + benefit
 Initiated, Managed & Delivered £20M P&L Benefit via Balance Sheet Review
 Identified uninvested cash & implemented investment policy (+£30m)
 Introduction of fuel cards & revised cash handling
 Delivered a +90% improvement on chronic customer satisfaction issue (card pre-authorisations)
 Initiated & Delivered Streamlined, Focussed Monthly Management Reporting to Board
(Subsequently adopted as Group Benchmark & basis for standadised group reporting
 Managed smoothing quarterly spend & reduced significant ‘Hockey-Stick’’ profile c£250m quarterly
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2. CV Stewart Pearce LLB ACMA 02392 847002 / 07947 440200
 Being the only one of 82 SAP countries to be Business Ready on Go-Live day
Client Table
Organisation Role Period
Growth Accelerator Business Coach Jan 2013 - present
Royal Borough of
Kingston
Project Manager Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
Carnival UK (CUK) Revenue Operations Manager Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
Veolia Water Oracle Implementation Interface
Lead
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
Sands Accounting Owner Jan 2002 - Dec 2010
Virgin Media / NTL Head of Finance Apr 2001 - Jan 2002
Avaya UK Financial Controller Mar 2000 - Apr 2001
Stryker EMEA Financial Controller Mar 1999 - Mar 2000
3COM Finance Director Jul 1998 - Feb 1999
Trend Comms Finance Director Sep 1997 - Dec 1997
PMSI Finance Director Feb 1997 - Jun 1997
Freightliner Business Development Manager Sep 1996 - Jan 1997
British Rail Financial Team Leader Sep 1995 - Jul 1996
ACI Rockware Project Accountant – Acquisition May 1995 - Jul 1995
UB Networks Management Accountant Dec 1994 - May 1995
Ethyl Petroleum Project Accountant Apr 1994 - Dec 1994
IT Skills:
Oracle R12 & SAP (Implementation, Configuration & Super-User), Agillys, Prince 2, Hyperion, MFG Pro,
Mentor, Crystal,Microsoft Office -Excel (Macro Level), Word (Advanced) Access, Project, Visio, Powerpoint,
Sage (Instant, Line 50, Payroll), Quickbooks, JBA, JD Edwards, Construction Manager, Lotus 123, Dbase,
Supercalc, Graffox, Foxbase, ICL System 29 Gold Cube.
Qualifications:
ACMA 1993 - First time passes
BA (Hons) Law - (Bristol UWE - Master of Moots), 3 A Levels (A A C) & 5 GCSEs (All A’s)
General Interests:
Reading, Cinema (especially Cary Grant Films), Mushroom Foraging, Travelling, Cooking, County
Walks, Private Pilots Licence, SCUBA Diving (instructor rating), in addition to Rugby, Football,
Tennis, Cricket, Theatre & Real Ale.
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