Head of Strategic Finance

We're looking for a Head of Strategic Finance to join our Finance team to lead capital strategy, FP&A, and commercial decision support at a critical stage of Yoto's growth.

About Yoto

Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots.

• Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.
• Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.
• Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.
• Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.
• We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!

We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it!

Yoto’s FinanceTeam

Yoto's Finance team is agile by design. We believe agile, well-structured teams move faster, build stronger relationships across the business, and make better decisions. The team supports significant revenue across hardware, content, subscriptions, and global operations, and is actively rebuilding its engine for an AI-enabled world, with a clear mandate to reduce processing time and invest that bandwidth in strategic work. This role sits at the heart of that ambition, working closely with the CFO and embedded across commercial, product, and engineering teams.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead capital strategy, fundraise readiness, and board narrative - owning the numbers and the story that sits behind them for senior stakeholders and investors
• Drive scenario modelling and commercial decision support across the business, partnering with commercial, growth, content, product, and engineering teams
• Own the unit economics of Yoto's content business - including royalty structures, card library performance, and the P&L of Yoto Originals and Yoto Space
• Lead and develop a small team of strategic finance business partners, each owning a defined slice of the commercial picture across market, growth, and international
• Own Yoto's FP&A platform (Pigment), ensuring it delivers clean, decision-ready outputs; partnering with Finance Platform on the systems underneath it
• Define and lead the development of departmental roadmaps and initiatives that support Yoto's long-term financial strategy, working alongside the CFO and senior leadership.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in FP&A or strategic finance at a senior level, with a track record of building models and forecasts that have directly informed business decisions
• Experience presenting to boards or senior investors, with the ability to translate financial complexity into clear, compelling narrative
• A working understanding of content economics — royalty structures, IP ownership models, or subscription unit economics — or the commercial curiosity to develop it quickly
• Experience managing and developing finance professionals, with a clear approach to setting expectations, developing capability, and maintaining high standards
• Strong command of FP&A tooling (experience with Pigment or a comparable platform is an advantage) and confidence working alongside ERP systems such as NetSuite.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in a consumer hardware or media/content business
• Exposure to fundraising processes and investor relations at a scale-up or growth-stage company.

Salary: £110,000 - £120,000 based on experience

How we use AI at Yoto

We think using AI to work smarter is part of the job.

At Yoto, we use AI to help us move faster and reduce manual work so we can focus our time on creativity, problem-solving and impact. We don’t want to use AI to cut corners - it’s part of the job. Our intention is to be thoughtful about how we use AI. We treat its outputs as a starting point, not the final answer, and we take care to use it responsibly - especially given the trust families place in Yoto.

We don’t expect everyone to be an AI expert, but we do expect people to be curious, to experiment, and to keep improving how they work. If you prefer to do everything manually, you might find our pace and expectations challenging.

The magic at Yoto comes from people working here, not their prompts. AI should help us move faster, not change what makes working here great.

What you can expect from Yoto:

• Flexibility:Hybrid working - At least1 day a week on average in our central London office. You are welcome and encouraged to come in more than this. How you meet the minimum expectation is up to you, to ensure you're happy and productive in your role whilst also getting that vital face time with your colleagues.Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
• Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.
• Health & Wellness: Private Medical

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