At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial strategy and own the group profit-and-loss across multiple business areas.
- Company: Dynamic company in the events and hospitality sector with significant growth potential.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, leadership role, and opportunity to shape the finance function.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities for innovation and team building.
- Why this job: Be a key player in driving profitability and preparing for future growth and exit options.
- Qualifications: Qualified accountant with strong finance leadership experience and commercial acumen.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
The Role We are at the point where finance needs to grow up with the business.
We run across three engines: a Marketplace at CM2 profitability, a high-growth Live business including a major Live Nation profit-share partnership, and proprietary supply we own and operate, including Field Vision Bars, which we acquired this year.
Serious money moves through us now.
We are building towards full-year profitability and real exit optionality over the next 18 months or so.
We want a finance leader who can take us there.
This is the most senior finance seat in the business.
You will own the full group profit‑and‑loss and the financial strategy that sits behind it.
Our finance function has grown function‑by‑function rather than by design, and your job is to bring it together and raise the bar, across two businesses, a major partnership and the path to a possible sale.
You will run a clean, timely close and build the kind of financial infrastructure an acquirer expects to see.
But this is not just a controls job.
You will own working capital strategy across our different revenue cycles, shape capital and treasury decisions, partner with the commercial leaders on margin and pricing, and be the person who turns our numbers into a story for the board and a future process.
We will bring in a finance assistant underneath you so the transactional work is off your desk and your time goes where it matters.
You will report to the founders and sit on the leadership team.
How far this goes is genuinely up to you.
You will 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 Lovely to have 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr
