Stuart Pemble - Chief Financial Officer at RIMES Technologies

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Stuart Pemble Chief Financial Officer at RIMES Technologies

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Stuart Pemble is a highly experienced Commercial Finance, Procurement & Operations executive with an impressive LinkedIn network of 8,517 connections. With over 20 years of expertise in major global technology, Financial Services/Fintech, Media, Luxury, Retail, and Pharma brands, Stuart has a proven track record of driving operational excellence to deliver accelerated revenue growth and profitability. Stuart is known for his ability to implement change through well-structured planning, leadership, and communication. As a strong leader, business partner, and coach, Stuart has the vision and capabilities to deliver on tough objectives. Stuart has been recognized for excellence by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS).

Currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at RIMES Technologies, Stuart is responsible for Finance, Sales Operations, Legal, Corporate Strategy & M&A. Prior to this role, Stuart held positions at Finastra, Thomson Reuters, Parexel, and Burberry, where he made significant contributions to each organization's financial success. Stuart's areas of expertise include driving operational excellence, accelerating profitable growth, go-to-market performance optimization, monetization of new products/technologies, equity story, SPAC, IPO, M&A, investor relations, commercial contracts, pricing and negotiation, building high-performing finance teams, and finance automation (FP&A, AI, and Data & Analytics).

Stuart holds an Executive MBA from Imperial College Business School with a focus on Fintech & Financial Services. Additionally, Stuart is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS). With Stuart's extensive experience, strategic mindset, and exceptional leadership skills, they are a valuable asset to any organization.

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Full name: Stuart Pemble
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Company: RIMES Technologies (since 2021)
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-pemble-3010596/
LinkedIn Connections: 8517
Summary: A seasoned, Commercial Finance, Procurement & Operations executive, driving operational excellence, to deliver accelerated revenue growth and profitability. 20 years of experience within major global technology, Financial Services/Fintech, Media, Luxury, Retail and Pharma brands, designing and implementing B2C/B2B strategies and operations. Driving strategic plans into operational execution - implementing change through well structured planning, leadership and communication. A strong leader, business partner and coach with the vision and capabilities to deliver on tough objectives. A team builder and motivator, a C-level influencer with a global eye to business. Awarded the Institute prize for excellence by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS). Areas of Expertise: - Executive level partner & co-pilot Driving operational excellence, accelerating profitable growth & value creation Go to market performance optimization Monetization of new products/technologies Equity story, SPAC, IPO, M&A, fund raising & financing solutions Investor relations in FTSE50, NASDAQ and Private Equity companies Commercial contracts, pricing and negotiation Building high performing Finance teams to enable the organization Finance automation (FP&A), AI & Data & Analytics
Skills: Project Management Global Business Development

Education

Imperial College Business School: Executive MBA
Field of study: Fintech & Financial Services
CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply: Fellow
Field of study: Purchasing

Positions

RIMES Technologies London, England, United Kingdom: Chief Financial Officer
Dec 2021 - Present

Chief Financial Officer for RIMES.

Responsible for Finance, Sales Operations, Legal, Corporate Strategy & M&A.
Finastra London, England, United Kingdom: Corporate Finance / M&A
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Finastra London, United Kingdom: VP FP&A & Commercial Finance
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020

Responsible for Group FP&A / Commercial Finance support to the organisation - a Vista PE portfolio company.

Finastra is undergoing the model shift from Enterprise software to SaaS, moving its products to the cloud, enabling the Fintech innovation ecosystem via its platform model and monetizing data.

I drive execution of the corporate plan, ensuring that targets and related KPI’s are met or exceeded by the Company.

Preparation and delivery of Board and Lender presentations with the “story to the financials” - focused on the critical business drivers, and the operational plans to deliver.

The role also has responsibility for the financial management of the Companies Regional and Line of Business (LOB) P&Ls.

I partner with the Global President of Sales, Service and Marketing, to drive Group bookings and revenue performance. I am the financial lead on the Executive Deal Desk for all non-standard deals, and a daily partner with the Sales Operations team.

I focus on areas such as sales productivity, coverage model, commission plan, partner ecosystem management and the digital sales route to market.

I also partner with the Group C-Suite, Regional MD’s and Line of Business General Managers, supporting them in driving the long-term strategy, supporting their commercial decision making.
Thomson Reuters London, United Kingdom: Global Vice President Finance
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018

I partnered with the CTO & Sales leadership to drive delivery of the requirements from product/proposition into the go to market functions. Maintaining a fundamental bridge in the organisation to ensure strategic execution through the deployment of enterprise level Fintech software.

I led a global team, supporting a $6 billion of Revenue Division, with an Engineering function of 4,000 FTE+, with a cost base of over $500 million. Supported by the Global Finance shared service centres, this role was a true co-piloting role to ensure value creation and productivity of the go to market, engineering and support functions.

My role was also focused on the separation of the Finance and Risk Division of Thomson Reuters to Blackstone Private Equity – following Blackstone’s $18 billion investment, while maintaining Divisional performance.
Parexel London, United Kingdom: Chief Financial Officer - Parexel Informatics (Bio-Tech)
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018

PAREXEL International is a leading global bio-pharmaceutical services organization.

PAREXEL Informatics is the technology division of the company, with 1,000 R&D staff focused on designing and delivering new technology platforms to the Clinical Trials market.

As Divisional CFO, I was responsible for the end to end Finance function of PAREXEL Informatics, with Revenue over $300M, 3,000 staff and a CAPEX spend of $90M. I lead the function to enable the business to maximise profitable growth through technology investments and driving excellence in operational execution related to Clinical Trials.

I was part of the deal team that led to a successful multi-billion sale to Private Equity in 2017.

I was responsible for the governance and review of all R&D investments, commercial partnerships and M&A activities. For all partnerships and acquisitions, I lead due diligence and integration planning.

The Finance team of 35 FTE assisted the business by maintaining strong Financial governance and controls, accurate reporting and forecasting, innovative pricing strategies, maximising returns on investment and surfacing insightful analysis for decision making by the business. A true trusted advisor to the business.
Burberry London, United Kingdom: Chief Financial Officer - Commercial & Group Procurement Officer
Feb 2012 - Oct 2015

Established and was responsible for the Global Commercial Finance function - the team focused on Retail Operations, Digital Commerce, IT, Marketing, Creative Media and Innovation. The key strategic pillars of growth for the company - for both the Fashion and Beauty businesses.

Global Divisional CFO for the Burberry Beauty business, building the Beauty business after ending the licence agreement with Interparfum. As a member of the Burberry Beauty Leadership Team, building the strategic and operational execution plans to maximise profitable growth.

2013-2015, led a Global Procurement Transformation programme. Delivered +12% savings on Group OPEX in its first year of operation - managed the re-investment of these savings to grow Retail and Online Sales, Operational Efficiency and EBIT margin.

Responsible for governing Burberry's Global CAPEX investment programme in strategic projects.

Established the Burberry Programme Management Office reporting to the CEO/COO office on the health and progress of all key business projects. Implemented post project review to drive continuous improvement and learning.