Director of Finance

We're looking for a Director of Finance to be the most senior finance hire at Mercury13, the group building a portfolio of professional women's football clubs across Europe. You'll own financial planning and analysis across a multi-currency, multi-country group that's still early in its journey. Reporting to the group CEO, you'll build the reporting foundations at each club, then use them to run financial planning that leadership and our investors can trust. This is a builder's role, not a caretaker's.

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You have significant experience in finance, and in senior leadership roles.
• You have deep expertise in FP&A, financial modeling, reporting, and accounting standards.
• You've built financial structure in complex, high-growth, multi-entity and multi-currency businesses, creating the systems where none existed.
• You hold a finance or accounting degree or equivalent experience, ideally with a professional qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA or similar).
• You've owned investor reporting and managed investor relationships, ideally in a PE-backed or institutionally-funded business.
• You're hands-on and happiest solving problems yourself rather than overseeing others.
• You're obsessed with efficiency and love finding better, more automated ways to work.
• You take full ownership and build trust quickly with people across different countries.

What you can expect to be involved in:

• Reviewing finance across every club and HoldCo, then rebuilding it to a consistent, reliable standard.
• Setting and enforcing the reporting standards the whole group runs on, working with each club's finance lead.
• Building and running budgeting and forecasting across the group, and holding clubs to their budgets.
• Choosing and setting up the tools, people, and processes that make up a modern, lean finance function.
• Owning investor reporting and building the investor relations strategy for a PE-backed group.
• Partnering with the Board and CEO as the finance voice on strategic decisions.

Mercury13 is committed to safeguarding and ensuring the welfare and protection of children and vulnerable people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, the post holder will be subject to any relevant security checks as required.

About Us: Mercury 13 is a multi-club ownership group operating at the forefront of women's football in Europe. Our portfolio spans Bristol City Women (WSL2, England), FC Badalona Women (Liga F, Spain), and FC Como Women (Serie A Femminile, Italy). We are building the infrastructure, brand, and commercial capability to make women's football a mainstream cultural and commercial proposition and we are doing it now, ahead of the curve. We are a workplace that strives to be diverse and reflective of the populations we serve, therefore we welcome applications from everyone. As an organisation, we actively promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion to ensure everyone can bring their unique identities and the best version of themselves to Mercury13.

If you have any requirements in respect of the interview or recruitment process, please mention this during your application.

The successful candidate must ensure a positive commitment towards equality and diversity by treating others fairly and not committing any form of direct or indirect discrimination, victimisation or harassment of any description and to promote positive working relationships between all internal and external stakeholders.