• Develop and execute the financial strategy supporting company growth, product development, and market expansion. • Partner with executive leadership on capital allocation, funding requirements, and investment priorities. • Provide visibility into cash flow, runway, burn rate, and financial scenarios to support strategic decision-making. • Evaluate growth opportunities through the lens of enterprise value, risk, and long-term sustainability. • Lead financial preparation for fundraising activities, strategic investments, debt facilities, and other capital initiatives. • Develop investor-ready financial reporting, narratives, and supporting materials. • Support due diligence efforts with investors, lenders, strategic partners, and other stakeholders. • Translate technical and operational initiatives into clear financial outcomes and business value. • Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and executive leadership team on growth, investment, partnership, and expansion decisions. • Establish frameworks to evaluate financial, operational, contractual, and market risks. • Challenge assumptions, identify emerging risks, and support risk-adjusted decision-making. • Partner with external tax, audit, legal, and financial advisors to maintain compliance and support organizational growth. • Lead and develop the finance and accounting function, including systems, processes, and accountability structures. • Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cash management, financial reporting, tax strategy, audits, and compliance activities. • Build reporting, controls, governance, and financial infrastructure to support a scaling organization. • Maintain readiness for future investment, acquisition, liquidity, or strategic transaction opportunities. • Establish metrics and operating rhythms that provide visibility into organizational performance and enterprise value.

• Lead enterprise-wide finance transformation at Pearson, shaping strategy, operating model, and digital evolution to enable a more agile, insight-led, and AI-enabled finance function. • Partner with the Group Finance Officer to define, refine, and operationalise the finance strategy in alignment with broader corporate and business unit priorities • Translate strategic vision into a clear, executable finance operating model, including defined accountabilities across global, business unit, and functional finance teams • Drive alignment between financial planning, performance management, and value creation priorities across the organisation • Clarify the role of finance as both an owner and enabler of performance, embedding best-in-class principles for accountability and decision support • Lead a portfolio of enterprise finance transformation initiatives spanning global processes, systems, data governance, and business assurance • Establish and run a structured program governance model, with clear milestones, delivery plans, and value realisation tracking • Identify and remove barriers to execution, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver at pace and with measurable impact • Act as the integrator across initiatives, ensuring a connected, end-to-end transformation rather than fragmented delivery • Drive the adoption of automation, advanced analytics, and AI across finance to improve efficiency, forecasting, and decision support • Partner with Technology and Data teams to prioritise finance system investments aligned to strategic outcomes • Champion the shift toward real-time, data-driven finance capabilities, reducing manual processes and enhancing predictive insight • Ensure digital initiatives are embedded into day-to-day ways of working, not just deployed as standalone tools • Act as a key interface between finance leadership, business unit leaders, and central functions to align priorities and drive trade-offs • Influence executive-level stakeholders to prioritise transformation initiatives and commit the necessary resources • Provide strategic insight and challenge, positioning finance as a proactive partner in enterprise performance • Build strong cross-functional relationships to enable faster, more effective decision-making • Lead the overall change narrative for finance transformation, translating strategy into a clear, compelling story for the organisation • Design and deliver structured change management approaches to ensure adoption of new processes, tools, and behaviours • Engage and mobilise the finance community, building momentum and commitment to transformation goals • Ensure communication is consistent, outcome-focused, and reinforces accountability and progress • Build and develop capability across the finance organisation in program delivery, digital finance, and strategic partnering • Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement across teams

• Lead the transformation of Pearson’s finance capabilities, driving AI-led innovation across reporting, planning, and analytics • Define and deliver the strategic roadmap for finance systems, reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities • Lead the evolution of finance tools and processes to improve efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness • Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and machine learning to enhance forecasting, reduce manual reporting, and improve insight generation • Partner across Finance, Technology, Data, and business teams to align capability development with enterprise priorities • Influence investment decisions in finance systems, data, and reporting capabilities to maximise business value • Drive standardisation and consistency across business units to enable scalable and comparable finance processes • Lead end-to-end finance transformation initiatives, from business case through to delivery and adoption • Translate business requirements into clear priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes • Track and realise benefits from transformation activity, improving efficiency, control, and output quality • Deliver enhanced reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks to support decision-making and performance management • Improve the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of financial and operational reporting • Enable integrated performance views across planning, reporting, and analysis processes • Optimise finance data structures, systems, and workflows to increase reliability and efficiency • Deploy automation and analytics solutions to reduce manual effort and enhance insight generation • Establish governance frameworks for finance capability changes, including requirements, testing, and controls • Ensure strong change management, documentation, and user adoption across initiatives • Maintain compliance with internal controls and data governance standards • Lead and develop a high-performing team, setting clear objectives and expectations • Build capability across systems, data, reporting, and analytics within the team and wider finance function • Foster a culture of innovation, including adoption of AI-assisted workflows across finance and analytics

• Use functional leadership and expertise to advise clients and develop solutions to a variety of strategic problems related to improving business processes, enabling technology, and aligning the enterprise operating model for growth – within core areas of finance and operations. • Run smaller projects autonomously • Lead market-facing practice development initiatives such as thought leadership and white papers • Contribute actively to the development of people leaders into future practice leaders • Provide guidance and issue resolution support to teams across multiple concurrent client engagements • Partner with the practice’s executive leaders to conduct business development activities