Ron Jackson

Experience

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  Verizon

  May 2000 - Jul 2018

  Directed a finance team in forecasting, reporting and analyzing $3B of annual broadband revenue. Created and maintained financial models, documented assumptions, partnered with business leaders to ensure assumptions were accurately incorporated into the forecasts. Prepared monthly financial package for senior management, including commenting on variances to plan, forecast and prior year. Finance lead for sales and subscriber forecasting and reporting for 6M customers with broadband, video and voice services.• Prepared narratives for finance and marketing executives to explain variances and trends for $250M in monthly revenue. Crafted narratives for quarterly earnings call support backup.• Teamed with marketing to identify and track initiatives to close over $50M in revenue gap to achieve targets.• Spearheaded a cross-functional team to improve the subscriber and sales forecasting process. Eliminated forecasting errors and decreased the forecast cycle from three days to a few hours.• Created a report of $1B+ in annual promotional discounts using OBIEE, Microsoft Access and Excel pivot tables to provide key insights. Reduced preparation time from several weeks to only a few hours.• Devised a financial model to determine the optimal Early Termination Fee, which generated $5M in incremental revenue. • Created and managed a broadband KPI dashboard for metrics such as revenue ($3B), Sales (300K), broadband customers (5M), marketing penetration and revenue per customer by region. Show less Headed a finance team in planning and executing a complex financial model to predict more than $2.5B on annual broadband revenues, over $2B on long-distance revenues, and $200M of marketing communications expense to ensure alignment of business plans with financial objectives. P&L responsibility over the long distance product.• Identified $5M of unrecorded revenue through the creation of a revenue reconciliation report and received a commendation from senior management.• Developed a KPI dashboard to report and monitor $180M of key growth initiatives to measure their progress and effectiveness.• Handled the forecasting and reporting of the profit and loss statement for the long-distance business.• Assessed the profitability of $200M in annual value-added revenues by crafting a monthly report for product managers. Show less

  • Senior Manager FP&A

    Sept 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Manager - FP&A

    May 2000 - Sept 2015
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  BT Group

  Nov 2018 - Aug 2020

  Finance Manager

  Lead the monthly outlook process, identified trends and variances, documented and tracked risks and opportunities. Work with P&L owners to ensure proper project plan and delivery was in place to deliver incremental revenue and EBITDA. Track and quantify initiatives against plan and report results to Senior Leadership. • Transition from a manual, Excel-based outlook process to HFM for over $500M in revenue and $100k in EBITDA resulting in saved time, increased accuracy, improved metrics reporting.• Identified key risks and opportunities associated with monthly Outlooks and proposed potential solutions to mitigate risks and optimize opportunities.• Quantified and tracked Transformation initiatives to help improve EBITDA. Show less

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  City of Dallas

  Mar 2021 - now

  Assists in the preparation and coordination of the City Manager's recommended budget including operating, capital, grants, trusts, and debt service budgets to ensure effective oversight and financial management.Monitors and analyzes expenditures, revenues, positions/FTEs, and changes in financial status in complex funds and budgets on a city-wide basis to ensure proper accountability and financial management.Prepares routine monthly, quarterly, and annual reports such as cost analysis, performance data, financial target analysis, and expenditure and revenue status reports to provide appropriate monitoring for effective decision making.Provides non-routine reports and responds to special requests for reports on financial and organizational information including complex statistical forecasting models, trend analysis, impact studies, financial projection methods, issue papers, briefing materials, and bond rating notebooks to provide management information.Communicates with city departments, managers, auditors, and service providers to obtain or provide information, integrate activities and resolve problems such as reconciling department submissions with approved budgets.Reviews council agenda times and contracts to ensure proper format and procedures, accuracy in financial and budgetary information, and resolve problems with client departments.Attends City Council and Town Hall meetings to provide staff assistance including taking notes for management and recording unanswered Council or citizen questions. Show less

  • Budget Manager

    May 2022 - now

  • Senior Budget Analyst

    Mar 2021 - May 2022