Finance Director

• Own the group P&L across Live, Marketplace and Field Vision Bars, with consistent event‑level margin visibility.
• Run a clean, timely month‑end close and build exit‑grade, board‑ready reporting by default.
• Own working capital strategy: factoring, facilities and payment‑terms across our seasonal, multi‑entity cash cycles.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting and the single source of truth for targets.
• Prepare the business for audit, due diligence and a possible future process.
• Partner commercially with the founders and leadership on pricing, margin and big decisions.
• Build and shape the finance team beneath you, starting with a finance assistant to own the transactional desk.
• Hold our advisors and tooling to account, and build a systems‑first, AI‑native function.

Requirements

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), most likely with an audit or practice background early on.
• An experienced finance leader: FC stepping up to FD, an existing FD, or a Head of Finance ready for full ownership.
• Genuinely commercial. You turn numbers into a recommendation, not just a report.
• Strong technically: clean close, working capital, cash flow, controls.
• Comfortable as the most senior finance person in the room, holding the bar with advisors, the team and the board.
• Energised by a fast‑paced, high‑growth business where the function is still being built.
• Systems‑first and keen to use automation and AI to build something modern.
• Experience taking a business through an acquisition, sale or fundraise (either side of the table).
• Events, hospitality or another seasonal, high‑volume, complex business.
• Multi‑entity or group accounting: intra‑group recharges, consolidation.
• Profit‑share or partnership accounting.
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