Chinese & Russians CR-929 C-919 jets and Chinese + Russian engines took a big slice of the cake, so Ang Moh are fucked.
Rolls-Royce fucked themselves with their KING ACE MODEL TRENT 1000C suffering Expensive and Serious Reliability Crisis. Affecting more than 150 commercial jets. All the more they lost business to Chinese and Russians.
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Rolls-Royce to axe 4,600 jobs, most of them in UK
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Jun 15, 2018, 5:00 am SGT
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LONDON • Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt by its boss Warren East to reduce costs and complexity and make Britain's best-known engineering company more profitable and dynamic.
Mr East, a soft-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls-Royce since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
Yesterday's announcement, which Mr East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the Sept 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 per cent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save £400 million (S$714 million) a year by 2020.
Two-thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls-Royce is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
Mr East told reporters: "We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world-class as our engineering and technology.
"We have to... reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive."
The cuts will not affect its engineers, the firm said.
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Sarah Young
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East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 percent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
Two thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
“Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history,” East told reporters. “We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology.
“We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organization. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate center, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive.”
The cuts will not affect its engineers, Rolls said.
The news has echoes of an announcement from BT (BT.L) last month, another venerable company that is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs to reduce bureaucracy and respond faster to its customers’ needs.
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East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain’s biggest tech company, has complained that Rolls, a rival to General Electric (GE.N), is too complex and cumbersome due to layers of bureaucracy above the shopfloor.
Driving home his new focus, he has set a 2020 free cash flow target of 1 billion pounds, a sizeable jump from the 273 million pounds recorded in 2017, off revenue of 15 billion pounds.
In January he divided the company into three business units - Civil Aerospace, Defence and Power Systems - and the new restructuring is designed to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate center.
The cuts follow a lengthy period of investment in previous years that has meant it is now delivering its biggest ever increase in large engine production.
The union Unite warned: “There is a real danger that Rolls-Royce will cut too deep and too fast with these jobs cuts, which could ultimately damage the smooth running of the company and see vital skills and experience lost.”
The major restructuring, costing a total of 500 million pounds between 2018 and 2020, will be reported as separate one-off costs, allowing it to stick to its targets for free cash flow.
“These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition,” East said.
The company holds an investor day on Friday where it is expected to provide more details on its targets and outlook.
Asked about the potential sale of the company’s commercial marine business, which supplies oil and gas customers and is under review, East said he would provide shareholders with a “short update” on Friday.
Investors will also be looking for hints that the dividend could start to grow. It was halved in 2016 to enable the company to shore up its finances and cope with the declines in its aero engine and oil and gas businesses over the previous two years.
Rolls shares traded 3 percent higher to 854 pence by 1055 GMT after it published details of the restructuring plan.
The rise came despite analyst concerns about Rolls excluding the costs of restructuring from its the free cash flow targets.
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“In our view on first pass the headlines imply a notable underlying downgrade to current market expectations in outer-year estimates with higher than anticipated costs in the near term,” Barclays analyst Phil Buller said in a note.
“How much of this is driven by the growing Trent 1000 issues is unclear.”
TEST OF MANAGEMENT
The overhaul will test East’s management skills however, coming against a backdrop of huge pressures on the group which has been blindsided by problems with parts of the Trent 1000 engine which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.
Having discovered that parts of the engine were not lasting as long as expected, the company is having to ground planes to carry out inspections, forcing airline clients to lease alternative planes to meet demand in the busy summer period.
That program has pushed up costs, increasing pressure on Rolls to find savings elsewhere. East said the job cuts were not linked to the engine problem.
“The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today,” East said.
“I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the work force while we’re dealing with these issues but they’re really two separate issues altogether.”
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Additional writing by Kate Holton; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and xx
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Rolls-Royce Retrenches 4,600 staff
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Britain’s Engineering Company, Rolls-Royce, has decided to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt to cut costs and make more profit.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Warren East, said on Thursday in London that the aim was also to create a much more streamlined organization.
“Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history,” East said.
“We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology is.
“We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organization. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive.”
Rolls-Royce has 55,000 employees worldwide of which 26,000 are in Britain. The latest cuts follow previous job cuts and the creation of other roles following a series of profit warnings in 2014.
The company had said that two thirds of the job cuts would fall in Britain, where it employs 15,700 at its headquarters in Derby, central England.
It said the cuts would not affect its engineers.
“These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition,” East said.
“The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today.
“I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the workforce while we’re dealing with these issues but they’re really two separate issues altogether.”
East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company was forced to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove just over 10 per cent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain’s biggest tech company, has vowed to simplify Rolls and drive greater efficiencies to enable it to generate 1 billion pounds of free cash flow by 2020.
In January he divided the company into three business units and said he was now ready to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate centre.
Rolls shares traded 2.7 per cent higher by at 851 pence early on Thursday after it published details of the plan.
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Rolls-Royce to cut 4,600 jobs in latest drive to generate cash
June 15 04:01 am JST 2 Comments
LONDON
Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt by boss Warren East to reduce costs and complexity and make Britain's best known engineering company more profitable and dynamic.
East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 percent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
Two thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
"Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history," East told reporters. "We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology.
"We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organisation. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive."
The cuts will not affect its engineers, Rolls said.
The news has echoes of an announcement from BT last month, another venerable company that is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs to reduce bureaucracy and respond faster to its customers' needs.
East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain's biggest tech company, has complained that Rolls, a rival to General Electric, is too complex and cumbersome due to layers of bureaucracy above the shop floor.
Driving home his new focus, he has set a 2020 free cash flow target of 1 billion pounds, a sizeable jump from the 273 million pounds recorded in 2017, off revenue of 15 billion pounds.
In January he divided the company into three business units
Civil Aerospace, Defense and Power Systems - and the new restructuring is designed to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate center.
The cuts follow a lengthy period of investment in previous years that has meant it is now delivering its biggest ever increase in large engine production.
The union Unite warned: "There is a real danger that Rolls-Royce will cut too deep and too fast with these jobs cuts, which could ultimately damage the smooth running of the company and see vital skills and experience lost."
The major restructuring, costing a total of 500 million pounds between 2018 and 2020, will be reported as separate one-off costs, allowing it to stick to its targets for free cash flow.
"These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition," East said.
The company holds an investor day on Friday where it is expected to provide more details on its targets and outlook.
Asked about the potential sale of the company's commercial marine business, which supplies oil and gas customers and is under review, East said he would provide shareholders with a"short update" on Friday.
Investors will also be looking for hints that the dividend could start to grow. It was halved in 2016 to enable the company to shore up its finances and cope with the declines in its aero engine and oil and gas businesses over the previous two years.
Rolls shares traded 3 percent higher to 854 pence by 1055 GMT after it published details of the restructuring plan.
The rise came despite analyst concerns about Rolls excluding the costs of restructuring from its the free cash flow targets.
"In our view on first pass the headlines imply a notable underlying downgrade to current market expectations in outer-year estimates with higher than anticipated costs in the near term," Barclays analyst Phil Buller said in a note.
"How much of this is driven by the growing Trent 1000 issues is unclear."
The overhaul will test East's management skills however, coming against a backdrop of huge pressures on the group which has been blindsided by problems with parts of the Trent 1000 engine which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.
Having discovered that parts of the engine were not lasting as long as expected, the company is having to ground planes to carry out inspections, forcing airline clients to lease alternative planes to meet demand in the busy summer period.
That program has pushed up costs, increasing pressure on Rolls to find savings elsewhere. East said the job cuts were not linked to the engine problem.
"The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today," East said.
"I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the work force while we're dealing with these issues but they're really two separate issues altogether."
Rolls-Royce has 55,000 employees worldwide, of which 26,000 are in Britain. The latest changes follow previous job cuts and the creation of other roles following a series of profit warnings in 2014.
© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.
Rolls-Royce fucked themselves with their KING ACE MODEL TRENT 1000C suffering Expensive and Serious Reliability Crisis. Affecting more than 150 commercial jets. All the more they lost business to Chinese and Russians.
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Rolls-Royce to axe 4,600 jobs, most of them in UK
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Jun 15, 2018, 5:00 am SGT
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LONDON • Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt by its boss Warren East to reduce costs and complexity and make Britain's best-known engineering company more profitable and dynamic.
Mr East, a soft-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls-Royce since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
Yesterday's announcement, which Mr East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the Sept 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 per cent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save £400 million (S$714 million) a year by 2020.
Two-thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls-Royce is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
Mr East told reporters: "We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world-class as our engineering and technology.
"We have to... reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive."
The cuts will not affect its engineers, the firm said.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-at-pivotal-moment-for-business-idUSKBN1JA0JD
Rolls-Royce cuts 4,600 jobs at 'pivotal moment' for business
Sarah Young
6 Min Read
East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 percent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
Two thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
“Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history,” East told reporters. “We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology.
“We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organization. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate center, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive.”
The cuts will not affect its engineers, Rolls said.
The news has echoes of an announcement from BT (BT.L) last month, another venerable company that is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs to reduce bureaucracy and respond faster to its customers’ needs.
CASH TARGET
East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain’s biggest tech company, has complained that Rolls, a rival to General Electric (GE.N), is too complex and cumbersome due to layers of bureaucracy above the shopfloor.
Driving home his new focus, he has set a 2020 free cash flow target of 1 billion pounds, a sizeable jump from the 273 million pounds recorded in 2017, off revenue of 15 billion pounds.
In January he divided the company into three business units - Civil Aerospace, Defence and Power Systems - and the new restructuring is designed to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate center.
The cuts follow a lengthy period of investment in previous years that has meant it is now delivering its biggest ever increase in large engine production.
The union Unite warned: “There is a real danger that Rolls-Royce will cut too deep and too fast with these jobs cuts, which could ultimately damage the smooth running of the company and see vital skills and experience lost.”
The major restructuring, costing a total of 500 million pounds between 2018 and 2020, will be reported as separate one-off costs, allowing it to stick to its targets for free cash flow.
“These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition,” East said.
The company holds an investor day on Friday where it is expected to provide more details on its targets and outlook.
Asked about the potential sale of the company’s commercial marine business, which supplies oil and gas customers and is under review, East said he would provide shareholders with a “short update” on Friday.
Investors will also be looking for hints that the dividend could start to grow. It was halved in 2016 to enable the company to shore up its finances and cope with the declines in its aero engine and oil and gas businesses over the previous two years.
Rolls shares traded 3 percent higher to 854 pence by 1055 GMT after it published details of the restructuring plan.
The rise came despite analyst concerns about Rolls excluding the costs of restructuring from its the free cash flow targets.
Slideshow (3 Images)
“In our view on first pass the headlines imply a notable underlying downgrade to current market expectations in outer-year estimates with higher than anticipated costs in the near term,” Barclays analyst Phil Buller said in a note.
“How much of this is driven by the growing Trent 1000 issues is unclear.”
TEST OF MANAGEMENT
The overhaul will test East’s management skills however, coming against a backdrop of huge pressures on the group which has been blindsided by problems with parts of the Trent 1000 engine which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.
Having discovered that parts of the engine were not lasting as long as expected, the company is having to ground planes to carry out inspections, forcing airline clients to lease alternative planes to meet demand in the busy summer period.
That program has pushed up costs, increasing pressure on Rolls to find savings elsewhere. East said the job cuts were not linked to the engine problem.
“The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today,” East said.
“I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the work force while we’re dealing with these issues but they’re really two separate issues altogether.”
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Rolls-Royce Retrenches 4,600 staff
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June 14, 2018
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Rolls-Royce Retrenches 4,600 staff
Britain’s Engineering Company, Rolls-Royce, has decided to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt to cut costs and make more profit.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Warren East, said on Thursday in London that the aim was also to create a much more streamlined organization.
“Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history,” East said.
“We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology is.
“We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organization. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive.”
Rolls-Royce has 55,000 employees worldwide of which 26,000 are in Britain. The latest cuts follow previous job cuts and the creation of other roles following a series of profit warnings in 2014.
The company had said that two thirds of the job cuts would fall in Britain, where it employs 15,700 at its headquarters in Derby, central England.
It said the cuts would not affect its engineers.
“These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition,” East said.
“The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today.
“I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the workforce while we’re dealing with these issues but they’re really two separate issues altogether.”
East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company was forced to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove just over 10 per cent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain’s biggest tech company, has vowed to simplify Rolls and drive greater efficiencies to enable it to generate 1 billion pounds of free cash flow by 2020.
In January he divided the company into three business units and said he was now ready to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate centre.
Rolls shares traded 2.7 per cent higher by at 851 pence early on Thursday after it published details of the plan.
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Rolls-Royce to cut 4,600 jobs in latest drive to generate cash
June 15 04:01 am JST 2 Comments
LONDON
Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt by boss Warren East to reduce costs and complexity and make Britain's best known engineering company more profitable and dynamic.
East, a softly-spoken former tech boss, has overhauled the 134-year-old Rolls since he took charge in 2015 but the new cuts come as the group grapples with an aero-engine problem that has grounded planes and angered clients.
The announcement, which East said is not linked to the Trent 1000 engine issue, marks the biggest round of job cuts since the company had to retrench during the aviation crisis that followed the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
The plan will remove 10 percent of the workforce, targeting duplication in corporate, administration and management roles to try to save 400 million pounds ($536 million) a year by 2020.
Two thirds of the job cuts will fall in Britain. Rolls is the biggest employer in the city of Derby, central England, with 15,700 at its headquarters.
"Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history," East told reporters. "We are poised to become the world leader in large aircraft engines. But we want to make the business as world class as our engineering and technology.
"We are proposing the creation of a much more streamlined organisation. We have to significantly reduce the size of our corporate centre, removing complexity and duplication that makes us too slow, uncompetitive and too expensive."
The cuts will not affect its engineers, Rolls said.
The news has echoes of an announcement from BT last month, another venerable company that is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs to reduce bureaucracy and respond faster to its customers' needs.
East, who built the chip designer ARM Holdings from a start-up into Britain's biggest tech company, has complained that Rolls, a rival to General Electric, is too complex and cumbersome due to layers of bureaucracy above the shop floor.
Driving home his new focus, he has set a 2020 free cash flow target of 1 billion pounds, a sizeable jump from the 273 million pounds recorded in 2017, off revenue of 15 billion pounds.
In January he divided the company into three business units
Civil Aerospace, Defense and Power Systems - and the new restructuring is designed to remove management duplication between those layers and the corporate center.
The cuts follow a lengthy period of investment in previous years that has meant it is now delivering its biggest ever increase in large engine production.
The union Unite warned: "There is a real danger that Rolls-Royce will cut too deep and too fast with these jobs cuts, which could ultimately damage the smooth running of the company and see vital skills and experience lost."
The major restructuring, costing a total of 500 million pounds between 2018 and 2020, will be reported as separate one-off costs, allowing it to stick to its targets for free cash flow.
"These changes will help us deliver over the mid and longer-term a level of free cash flow well beyond our near-term ambition," East said.
The company holds an investor day on Friday where it is expected to provide more details on its targets and outlook.
Asked about the potential sale of the company's commercial marine business, which supplies oil and gas customers and is under review, East said he would provide shareholders with a"short update" on Friday.
Investors will also be looking for hints that the dividend could start to grow. It was halved in 2016 to enable the company to shore up its finances and cope with the declines in its aero engine and oil and gas businesses over the previous two years.
Rolls shares traded 3 percent higher to 854 pence by 1055 GMT after it published details of the restructuring plan.
The rise came despite analyst concerns about Rolls excluding the costs of restructuring from its the free cash flow targets.
"In our view on first pass the headlines imply a notable underlying downgrade to current market expectations in outer-year estimates with higher than anticipated costs in the near term," Barclays analyst Phil Buller said in a note.
"How much of this is driven by the growing Trent 1000 issues is unclear."
The overhaul will test East's management skills however, coming against a backdrop of huge pressures on the group which has been blindsided by problems with parts of the Trent 1000 engine which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.
Having discovered that parts of the engine were not lasting as long as expected, the company is having to ground planes to carry out inspections, forcing airline clients to lease alternative planes to meet demand in the busy summer period.
That program has pushed up costs, increasing pressure on Rolls to find savings elsewhere. East said the job cuts were not linked to the engine problem.
"The people that will be leaving the business have nothing whatsoever to do with solving the issues our customers are having with our engines today," East said.
"I know it sounds incongruous at face value, the loss of the work force while we're dealing with these issues but they're really two separate issues altogether."
Rolls-Royce has 55,000 employees worldwide, of which 26,000 are in Britain. The latest changes follow previous job cuts and the creation of other roles following a series of profit warnings in 2014.
© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.
