WorkScore for Anna Rossi

Anna Rossi
VP Finance
Performance Diagnostics, Inc.
WorkScore as of February 06, 2012

Confidential WorkScore for Anna Rossi

Overview

Rehire Score: -100

  • 11  Colleagues
  • 4  Letters of Recommendation
  • 12  Verified Achievements
  • 15  Colleagues rated my skills
  • 0  Colleagues listed strengths or improvements
  • 0  Documents or links
What is this?
A WorkScore is a confidential assessment of Anna's skills and achievements provided by colleagues who know his or her work.

Who picked the colleagues?
Anna made the initial list of colleagues and members of this group added other names.

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Anna is not able to alter any reviews of his or her skills, strengths and weaknesses, or professional style. But if someone wrote an achievement or a commendation that is inaccurate, badly worded, or duplicative, Anna can delete it so long as at least seven achievements or commendations remain. 

How can I validate that Anna's WorkScore is accurate?
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Why did Anna bother to get a WorkScore?
It is not easy to ask colleagues to confidentially review your strengths and weaknesses, but most candidates who get a WorkScore know that it is a better indicator of their skill and performance than resumes or references. Most are comfortable being accountable to colleagues for professional results -- which places them well ahead of most candidates. Also, a WorkScore indicates that Anna is very serious about this position. 

Anna Rossi

ann@workscore.biz

Colleagues

Name and Title When? How we worked together Reporting
Relationship?		 Email and Phone
Russ Antman Director of Accounting Performance Diagnostics, Inc. Anna is my boss at PDI. russ@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Jamie Chao Director of Information Technology Performance Diagnostics, Inc. jamie@workscore.biz
Sally Gillam Partner, DC&H, Accountants for Performance Diagnostics, Inc. I am the audit partner from DC&H who has been in charge of the annual PDI audit each year. We interact intensively with Anna for two weeks during the annual audit and I discuss issues with her regularly throughout the year. sally@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Esman Gorsto Director, Financial Reporting Performance Diagnostics, Inc. For the past four years, Anna has been the VP Finance at PDI. I direct financial reporting and report to her. esman@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Tim Howell AR Clerk Performance Diagnostics, Inc. Anna taught an introductory finance course at the community college. I did well, and she hired me into the Accounting Department. tim@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Robbie Madison CFO Performance Diagnostics, Inc. I hired Anna as VP finance when I became CFO. She has reported to me for almost four years. robbie@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Adam Mansfield CEO Performance Diagnostics, Inc. Anna is our Finance Director, effectively our #2 financial leader. adam@workscore.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Dedre Mansing VP Human Resources Performance Diagnostics, Inc. Anna and I are both VPs at PDI and we both report to the CFO. dedre@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Joanne Ruben Treasurer Performance Diagnostics, Inc. Anna hired me and as the Treasurer for PDI, I report to Anna. joanne@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Osten Sestus General Counsel Performance Diagnostics, Inc. As the General Counsel of PDI, I worked closely with Anna on both private placement and debt financings. osten@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx
Teddy Weatherman President, Bank of Sheboygan, Banker for Performance Diagnostics, Inc. I am President of the Bank of Sheboygan, where Anna is one of our largest borrowers. We speak most weeks and meet each quarter. teddy@xxxvxxx.biz 920-xxx-xxxx

Secondary Colleagues (named by primary colleagues)

Name and Title When? How we worked together Reporting
Relationship?		 Email and Phone

Quality Indicators

 

  • 11 are colleagues listed by Anna
  • 0 are names added by colleagues. 
  • 0 have a reporting relationship with Anna
  • 0 worked with Anna more than 4 years ago
  • 4 wrote letters of recommendation
  • 10 offered phone numbers

Recommendations (4)

  • November, 2009 Let's cut to the chase: Anna would make an outstanding CFO of a mid-sized company and unless I get hit by a truck, she is unlikely to advance here any time soon. She and I agreed that if she hit her targets for four years that I would help her achieve her goal of becoming a CFO. She met her end of the deal and then some, so I intend to do the same. Anna Rossi is one of the most talented finance executives I have ever worked with. She not only is extremely well-trained and skilled in the fundamentals of finance, she has a love of operations that makes her much more effective than a plain vanilla finance leader. She has helped leaders of several of our operating units and market segment leaders to develop operating metrics that tied to key financial measures and many of them have been more successful as a direct result. One example: our media segment sells a customer loyalty and retention product to small and medium sized magazines. The product helps our clients understand and grow the attributes of the publication that customers find most attractive. Growth in this segment had stalled for three years, when Anna and her staff began meeting with our media team leaders. Anna quickly focused on our market share loss and asked for a thorough review of our product pricing. When the results were inconclusive, she actually went and visited three large accounts -- and I guarantee these folks had never seen a Finance VP from PDI before! After about 3 months of work, Anna proposed a new pricing program that reduced price for some of the smaller publications, created a premium service for some of the larger clients, and got t the product managers focused on some features we need to add to be fully competitive in women's and consumer magazines. Customers were thrilled, our sales guys wanted to throw her a party, and the business results were fantastic. Last year, media products led the company in sales growth and most of that was attributable to the new pricing. What is even more remarkable about this story is that a typical Finance VP would simply tell the marketing folks that they are not meeting their numbers. Anna never works that way. If there is a problem, she owns it and expects everyone else to do the same. Anna has an incredible work ethic, especially, it must be said, for a mother of a young child. She gets a lot out of her team mainly because she puts a lot into her team. She is, by some considerable measure, the most popular senior manager at PDI even though she has made some of the least popular decisions. I could go on. If you have questions, please call. Anna is a star and the next company to get her is very, very lucky. — Robbie Madison CFO, Performance Diagnostics, Inc.
  • November, 2009 Anna is pretty amazing to work for. She is young for her position, but this is not likely to be the last job she will ever have. She is very smart and knows finance cold -- accounting, treasury, raising debt or equity, she has done a lot and does it well. I guess the most surprising thing about Anna is that she does not judge people too quickly. I would bet that most people thought she would have replaced me -- but she didn't and the performance of me and my team has increased dramatically. The fact is, it is hard to run an accounting department without good executive direction and once we got it, we knew where to focus. Anna gave us the direction and the resources we needed and she helped troubleshoot some of the harder problems. For example, we historically wrote off bad debt slowly. It was the way our former CFO liked to do it and it meant that we always booked large reserves for bad debt. Anna changed the policy. Sounds like a small deal, but it helped us focus our collections. She then asked Marketing to give nice discounts on ten day terms to some of our weaker accounts. Now nobody in our industry pays in ten days, but about half of these accounts started doing it. Inside of two quarters, bad debt was a non-issue on the balance sheet and a a trivial factor on our P&L as well. When Anna renegotiated our line of credit, the bankers noticed the improvement and it helped us get a new line on outstanding terms. I have learned a lot from Anna. She is the first boss I have ever had who was younger than I am, but she has been one of the best managers I have ever had. — Russ Antman Director of Accounting, Performance Diagnostics, Inc.
  • November, 2009 Anna Rossi is easy to recommend -- she is one of the most respected and accomplished managers any of us have ever seen. She works hard, gets a tremendous amount done, communicates clearly, helps her team focus, gives credit generously, anticipates conflicts and resolves them, energizes teams, and generally makes things go. She wants to be a CFO, and most of us think that she will become a very good one. It's interesting to try to identify Anna's weaknesses. I can think of two. First, although there are several strong managers reporting to her, I am not sure that she has groomed a clear successor, which is important since she appears to be looking for a CFO position. A successor would benefit from some transition time with Anna and she would leave here with more comfort, I would imagine, if the transition was more clearly laid out. Second, Anna does not particiapate much in industry activities or in activities related to the finance profession. Some of this is because we are in a small town that is not near major cities. But she could both learn and contribute a lot to these events and were I her boss, I would encourage her in that direction. — Esman Gorsto Director, Financial Reporting, Performance Diagnostics, Inc.
  • November, 2009 Anna Rossi is an exceptional leader who would make an outstanding CFO. She sets the standard around here for leadership effectiveness --- I truly don't think that any of us would claim to be her superior in this respect. Anna has always been hard working and smart. She is well-trained in finance, and this is enormously valuable. During her years here, she has grown more focused, taking on fewer projects that have much higher impact. Partly this is due to the nature of turn-around work; when she arrived, there was a lot that needed fixing. It also reflects her increased maturity during her time here. We are aware that Anna will likely leave us, despite discussions at the board and senior management level about how to keep her here. We are advising her to be extremely selective in her next assignment. She is exceptionally talented and will be a huge addition to any management team she joins. — Adam Mansfield CEO, Performance Diagnostics, Inc.

Achievements (12)

 Anna's Contribution to These Results
 Number of Reviewers
2009
Anna created a small Treasury unit to manage cash and short term debt. We repaid the cost of our operations in our first full year and expect to contribute cash this year.

100

3
2009
Anno helped streamline a lot of the work flow in Accounting. We get more done with fewer people than we did a year ago.

100

2
2009
Anna has helped to transform our balance sheet. She modified our accounting practices, helped close an equity financing, and secured a very favorable line of credit. The impact of her leadership is in the tens of millions of dollars.

100

1
2009
Ann rebuilt this department. She replaced about half of the existing people, brought in a much stronger team, and fixed a lot of broken processes. Our numbers are much better on both the payables and receivables side as a result.

99

10
2009
Anna helped secure, negotiate, and close a $50 million private placement equity financing and renegotiated the terms of our operating line 90 days later.

98

7
2008
Our team cut down the monthly close time last year and increased transaction processing by almost 9% with the same team.

98

11
2009
Anna turned our Finance Department into one of the most desirable places to work at PDI.

98

5
2009
Anna helped us get a much better handle on our working capital. We now collect receivables pay faster than anyone in the industry and we have some of the lowest bad debt write-offs.

97

9
2009
Anna has been a very strong Finance VP at PDI. She cleaned up the accounting and then helped the CFO raise a $50 million private placement. We bank their inventory and receivables and they are a significant account.

97

8
2009
Anna created a new Treasury function in her Department and recovered the cost with more aggressive management of our cash and short term debt.

97

4
2009
Anna and her accounting team have cleaned up a lot of small matters that caused comments in earlier audits. Treatment of bad debt reserves is one example and the move to LIFO inventory accounting is another.

97

4
2009
Anna helped us push our financial reporting system much closer to our operations reporting. This enables much better forecasts and better use of financial data by operating groups.

96

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Skill Profile

* An asterisk indicates a score in the top 20%.

Based on 15 Reviews

  • Drive91* 
  • Technical competence91* 
  • Quality90* 
  • Teamwork90* 
  • Productivity90* 
  • Problem solving89 
  • Enthusiasm87 
  • Leadership87 
  • Communication87 
  • Curiosity86 
  • Creativity76 

Strengths
No colleague has yet listed Anna's major strengths.

Opportunities to Improve
None of Anna's colleagues have yet listed opportunities for improvement. (The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, however). 

Style

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