Jana Rideout
Poughkeepsie,NY
Summary
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Finance Executive with 15+ years of expertise in optimizing global organizations' financial analysis, planning, operations, systems, and teams. Strategic partner to executive teams, advising on financial impacts of business decisions. Hands-on expert in project management and adoption. Tech-savvy, fueling transformations by identifying and seizing process improvements and opportunities to unlock greater productivity, accuracy, savings, and risk management.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Red Hat, IBM
New York
01.2020 - Current
VP, Business Transition Executive
IBM, Red Hat
04.2024 - Current
- Served as liaison and business partner between, and
- Analyzed impact of strategic moves to deliver sustainable, profitable growth
- Worked with impacted teams, implementing proposed shifts.
VP
01.2023 - 04.2024
- Go-to-Market (GTM) Finance & Operations, Worked as part of global leadership team (GLT) and was integral leader in driving strategic execution and financial performance for company
- Drove business transformation and value through execution and influencing positive change
- Built business and finance tools, such as new forecast process for sales organization that improved quarterly bookings from single digits to mid-teens for three quarters in a row
- Executed new CRM tool across all geographies that required alignment of account structure and territories
- Drove strategic planning and resource alignment
- Continued to drive single source of truth and automation of data
- Reorganized sales finance and operations organization through key strategy and transformation changes.
VP
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Successfully collaborated with other leaders to push more profound strategic initiatives and deliver compelling transformational business activities
- Provided analysis of strategic impacts
- Implemented One Source of Truth for data across sales and support organizations
- Transitioned from 95% manual process to 50% within the first year
- Put in place standardization of process across all geographies
- Realigned Finance organization to better support business.
Senior Director Finance
01.2020 - 01.2022
Supported Senior
International Business Machines, IBM
11.2006 - 01.2020
- Leadership in business management
- Provided strategic vision and tactical execution to enhance revenue growth
- Delivered executive management advice on the financial implications of business activities
- Implemented key metrics and tools to support analysis and insights
- Realigned finance organization to provide more efficient support
- Created product finance team to obtain data and insights on product performance and implement product Profit and Loss (P&Ls)
- Helped marketing department transition to planning by product and campaign, implementing ability to understand the value of the business.
Acquisition Finance Integration
11.2019 - 01.2020
- Served as integral part in Red Hat acquisition and merger, which was the largest in U.S
- History
- Liaised between IBM and acquired finance organization, ensuring effortless and timely completion of pre- and post-acquisition processes of financial functions
- Assisted with implementation of processes to allow correct accounting of acquired company
- Worked directly with acquired finance organization to support requests from IBM
- Validated finance functional post-acquisition integration-related accounting processes
- Managed project updates and internal communication within the organization
- Partnered with management and staff of acquired businesses to execute integration plan and achieve financial targets during integration/transition phase.
IBM Finance Strategy
08.2018 - 10.2019
- Provided insights and recommendations for optimal financial value with merger and acquisition with Red Hat
- Business Process Owner for WWGID managed Cloud-specific changes to the systems
- Managed IBM’s re-segmentation ad on ad hoc projects as requested
- Assisted in external reporting and conference materials
- Managed company’s long-term model
- Developed and delivered yearly investor quarterly and yearly briefing preparation for CFO.
Strategic Imperatives Coordinator /Board Supported CFO
10.2017 - 08.2018
- Assisted CFO with Board support and ensured initiatives aligned with company during each project
- Provided support to units, ensuring Strategic Imperatives Revenue was reported accurately
- Consolidated Strategic Imperatives Revenue and General Partners (GP) for external reporting
- Delivered analysis to Investor Relations Team and IBM Forecast Coordinator for Earnings documentation
- Managed IBM CFO Board Prep Calendar and Board Dashboards
- Worked with units to consolidate inputs for the new Board requirements of Segment Dashboards.
Analytics Controller
02.2017 - 09.2017
- Provided support to General Manager of Analytics and guidance to teams on tasks to complete
- Coached teams in areas of need
- Managed spring and fall plans by working with Strategy and Offering Management
- Oversaw operationalized Plan with GM and GM Direct reports
- Worked through all CHQ requests with team
- Served as point of contact for escalations from the Services, Development, and Sales teams.
Analytics Forecast Controller
11.2015 - 01.2017
- Consolidated inputs from 4 subunits for overall unit view and worked directly with CFO and Controller to prepare reviews
- Managed all CHQ requests and ensured they were handled by the appropriate teams
- Provided support to the SG&A team, ensuring spend was accurate and identifying areas of savings
- Delivered status on key spending action items to the CFO and Controller
- Prepared OT and PT decks for GM.
Analytics Unit Expense Manager
04.2015 - 10.2015
- Managed a team of 10 people directly and had additional support of 6 in the COE
- Team supported 7 subunits
- Oversaw expense and provided support on Royalties and managed resources for the unit
- Worked directly with the teams to understand expenditure and resources, providing actions needed to meet targets.
Information Manager Forecast Coordinator
07.2014 - 03.2015
- Consolidation of investment and wealth (I&E) monthly
- Reviewed monthly status with GM and GM direct reports
- Worked with Services, Development, and Sales teams to understand actuals and forecasts
- Worked with Development Team to restructure the development team into Horizons.
Management Software WW Plan Coordinator
06.2013 - 06.2014
- Worked with Offering Management to develop bottom-up approach to close plan targets
- Analyzed offerings and provided input and recommendations on investment or divestment areas
- Collaborated with the Strategy team to pull together the plan strategy for the year and for spring plan
- Operationalized budget by understating support teams’ budget and what actions were needed to close yearly budget
- Assisted in analysis of unit product attach rates within unit and across other software units to determine best course of action for coming year.
Expense and Resource Coordinator
GTS NA
05.2012 - 05.2013
- Managed Expense & Resource Fall Plan/Reset submissions and analysis
- Prepared SO B&P Analysis monthly
- Worked with each Lob to understand expense spending and resource changes monthly.
SO NA Plan Coordinator
07.2011 - 05.2012
- Created Sector Signings/Revenue/GP Budgets based on WW overall budget
- Ad hoc analysis of sector budgets
- Worked with WW, Sectors and S&D to complete all required analyses and loads into WWIE.
Financial Services Manager, Financial Analysts
ING
07.2010 - 07.2011
- Managed three contracts: Broadridge, CAN, and, to ensure the appropriate analysis was completed monthly and ensured contract was always audited ready
- Worked with PE and DPE to understand contract and ensure correct financial actions were taken
- Prepared and presented different financial views of the contracts depending on the request and the audience.
Financial Transition Coordinator
08.2009 - 07.2010
- Reviewed and aligned cost case details for newly signed contracts
- Set up new contracts in IBM Systems
- Worked with PE and DPE to understand the cost case
- Provided analysis on balance sheet status and impact of Transition/Transformation work to the balance sheet.
Lead Financial Analyst
Disney
07.2007 - 08.2009
- Provided cost and revenue analysis on Strategic Outsourcing Contract and managed balance sheet
- Realigned cost into a Tower structure
- Reviewed capital, assisted with forecast and determined benefit of current capital being requested
- Ensured team members had assistance needed to complete jobs accurately and timely
- Provided weekly/monthly reviews with Executive team on status of contract and roadmap items.
Lead Cost Analyst
AOD
02.2007 - 10.2007
- Realigned cost into by Project P&L and provided cost analysis monthly
- Reviewed monthly actuals and forecasts with DPE.
Financial Analyst
01.2006 - 02.2007
- Provided analysis around the benefits of Global Resourcing and tracked monthly progress of contracts utilizing Global Resourcing
- Worked with Global Resourcing countries to incorporate tracking mechanisms to reflect status of transition
- Assisted with analysis and cost benefit for projects to be funded by Headquarters
- Updated all capital and ordering systems for Finance structure change.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
City University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
City University
Skills
- Financial Operations Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting & Budgeting General Ledger C-Suite Advisory & Consulting Project & Program Management Leadership Process Automation System Implementation Presentations
- Team Building & Mentoring Relationship Management Executive Leadership Strategy & Transformation P&L SOX
- Technical Skills
- MS Office Suite Anaplan OneStream Tableau Cognos CRM CRMA
Timeline
VP, Business Transition Executive
IBM, Red Hat
04.2024 - Current
VP
01.2023 - 04.2024
VP
01.2022 - 01.2023
Red Hat, IBM
01.2020 - Current
Senior Director Finance
01.2020 - 01.2022
Acquisition Finance Integration
11.2019 - 01.2020
IBM Finance Strategy
08.2018 - 10.2019
Strategic Imperatives Coordinator /Board Supported CFO
10.2017 - 08.2018
Analytics Controller
02.2017 - 09.2017
Analytics Forecast Controller
11.2015 - 01.2017
Analytics Unit Expense Manager
04.2015 - 10.2015
Information Manager Forecast Coordinator
07.2014 - 03.2015
Management Software WW Plan Coordinator
06.2013 - 06.2014
Expense and Resource Coordinator
GTS NA
05.2012 - 05.2013
SO NA Plan Coordinator
07.2011 - 05.2012
Financial Services Manager, Financial Analysts
ING
07.2010 - 07.2011
Financial Transition Coordinator
08.2009 - 07.2010
Lead Financial Analyst
Disney
07.2007 - 08.2009
Lead Cost Analyst
AOD
02.2007 - 10.2007
Supported Senior
International Business Machines, IBM
11.2006 - 01.2020
Financial Analyst
01.2006 - 02.2007
Master of Business Administration - Finance
City University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
City University
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