Overview
As Head of Finance for Audio at Global, you lead margin performance and partner with Commercial leadership to shape strategy and drive profitability. You’ll own forecasting, pricing, cost discipline, and governance while enabling data-led decision-making across Audio. You’ll influence trade-offs and ensure commercial ambition aligns with financial discipline in a collaborative leadership setting. This role offers scope to shape pricing, trading models, and investment decisions in a high-impact, cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Embedded member of the Audio leadership team shaping commercial strategy
- Own Audio gross margin performance including revenue, pricing, cost of sales and investments
- Lead performance planning, budgeting, forecasts and long-range plans
- Develop and evolve pricing strategy using data and market insight
- Shape commercial trading deals and commission models in line with strategic and financial objectives
- Financial evaluation and challenge of revenue initiatives and investments
- Drive cost optimisation across revenue-linked cost base
- Ensure high-quality governance and data integrity with a single source of truth for Audio metrics
- Partner with Group FP&A for targets and performance tracking
- Collaborate with Reporting Hub to deliver core financial reports and processes
- Lead and develop a high-performing finance team with strong modelling and analytics capabilities
Key requirements
- Senior finance leadership experience in a commercial, subscription or advertising-led environment
- Credibility to influence senior commercial leaders
- Clear communication style capable of distilling complex concepts
- Excellent stakeholder management with board-level influence
- Track record of driving financial performance and margin improvement
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability
- Deep understanding of pricing strategy, commercial models and cost optimisation
- Experience evaluating revenue initiatives, trading deals and commission structures
- Strong strategic thinking in complex, ambiguous environments
- Collaborative leadership with cross-functional influence
- Commercial awareness of media, advertising and audio/podcasting markets
- stakeholder management
- clear communication
- collaboration
- financial modelling
- pricing strategy
- cost optimisation
Head of Finance in London employer: Global
Global is an exceptional employer that champions inclusivity and creativity, making it a fantastic place for aspiring Junior Shooters & Video Editors. Located in the vibrant Leicester Square, employees benefit from a dynamic work culture that encourages collaboration and innovation, with ample opportunities for professional growth within a highly skilled team. With the chance to create impactful content seen by millions, Global not only values your contributions but also supports your development in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
