Overview
As Head of Strategic Finance at Yoto, you will shape capital strategy, FP&A, and commercial decision support to fuel rapid growth. You’ll partner with the CFO and cross-functional teams to tell the financial story for investors and leadership, drive scenario planning, and own the unit economics of content. You’ll lead a small strategic finance team and oversee the FP&A platform to deliver clear, decision-ready insights. This is a chance to help Yoto scale while shaping the financial narrative of a growing consumer tech company.
Pay / Benefits
- Hybrid working with in-office requirement
- Private medical insurance
- Pension plan
- Birthday off and extra holidays with tenure
- Sabbatical after 4 years
- Volunteer days
Responsibilities
- Lead capital strategy, fundraise readiness, and board narrative for senior stakeholders and investors
- Drive scenario modelling and commercial decision support with cross-functional teams
- Own the unit economics of content including royalties, card library performance, and P&L for Yoto Originals and Yoto Space
- Lead and develop a small team of strategic finance business partners across market, growth, and international
- Own Yoto's FP&A platform (Pigment) and ensure clean, decision-ready outputs with Finance Platform on underlying systems
- Define and lead departmental roadmaps and initiatives to support long-term financial strategy with CFO and senior leadership
Key requirements
- Senior-level FP&A or strategic finance experience with model-building and forecast development that informed decisions
- Experience presenting to boards or senior investors with ability to translate finance into narrative
- Understanding of content economics related to royalties, IP ownership models, or subscription economics, or the ability to develop quickly
- Experience managing and developing finance professionals and setting expectations
- Strong command of FP&A tooling; familiarity with Pigment or similar platforms and comfort with ERP systems like NetSuite
- leadership and people development
- strong storytelling and narrative skills for boards/investors
- collaboration across commercial, growth, content, product, and engineering teams
- Pigment or comparable FP&A platform
- ERP systems (NetSuite)
- scenario modelling
Head of Strategic Finance in London employer: Yoto
Yoto is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where your contributions directly impact the experiences of millions of families. With a focus on employee growth, Yoto offers opportunities for professional development and encourages creativity in building high-quality features for their app. Located in a vibrant environment, working at Yoto means being part of a passionate team dedicated to making a difference in children's lives through technology.
