Head of Finance Business Partnering

Songtradr UK VACANCY: FULL-TIME

Company Profile

Songtradr is the world’s largest B2B music technology company, offering end-to-end music licensing, rights management, and direct-to-fan solutions. Through strategic acquisitions like MassiveMusic and Bandcamp, Songtradr empowers music creators and enables brands to connect with audiences through the power of music. Learn more at www.songtradr.com.

Job Description

We are looking for a Head of Finance Business Partnering to come on board and join our Finance & Control team in a leadership role. We are seeking an enthusiastic and hands-on leader to help us establish our newly created Business Partnering team. This is an exciting opportunity to create a newly established function and quickly create value for our business. This role leads and provides finance business partner support to individuals in our Executive Leadership team for budgeting and forecasting, commercial decision making and understanding of their financial results to create insights and optimise performance. We are a fast-growing multi-national music technology group that is scaling rapidly both organically and through M&A, and we need someone to help support the team to establish processes and procedures to operate efficiently as we scale and mature, and regularly work on ad-hoc projects as the need arises.

Main Job Duties

Your role would include, but not be limited to the following: Lead the Business Partnering function and team, whilst collaborating with the finance and control teams across the following:

Partner with business unit leaders to review results and provide financial and data insights and guide the financial and operational teams on data requirements
Commercial Decision Support for vertical and horizontal leaders and influence key decisions with data-driven financial advice.
Provide real-time financial analysis to support pricing, contracts, investments, and initiatives. Develop robust financial models to evaluate scenarios, risks, and opportunities and incorporate sensitivity analysis and simulations
Analyse and report on vertical and horizontal financial and operational KPIs, enabling proactive performance management.
Prepare, review and analyse actual results versus budget and forecast by horizontal and vertical for individual leaders, management and group reporting
Preparation of horizontal and vertical budgets and forecasts. Drive budget and forecast accuracy and ability to prepare rolling 13 month forecasts.
Manage the people budget, forecast and actual model for timely reporting and forecasts. Partner with the People team and horizontal leaders to make quick and informed workforce planning decisions.
Understand and analyze margins and profitability across the verticals. Understand and analyze cost structures and margins across products, services, clients, geographies, projects & competitors and seek and influence opportunities for improvement
Identify opportunities for cost savings, revenue & profit growth, and process improvement
Partner with business units to execute efficiency programs
Improve financial understanding within business teams through coaching, support and reporting tools.
Flash revenue and GP reporting
Reverse due diligence and M&A support as needed to FP&A and Group Accounting Team
Payment approvals where required
We are a fast-moving business, and other activities and projects will be assigned as required.

Desired Skills & Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or equivalent
Minimum 10 years finance experience, with a minimum of 3-5 years team leadership experience
Executive Level stakeholder management and influencing skills
Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills across executive, product, creative and commercial teams.
Advanced Excel skills, and interpretation of data through Excel
Excellent presentation of financial information
Commercial finance skills
Management accounting skills
Strong relationship management
People management and leadership skills
Problem solving and ability to work in the ‘grey’
High growth technology/ founder led experience
Team player and leader who is collaborative but also ready willing to roll up sleeves to get things done
Challenging the status quo making process improvements
Desirable - marketplace industry experience is an advantage
Desirable - experience of working in a PE / listed company environment

Our Three Core Values

Lead with Music

It’s our compass our passion We champion creativity by putting artists brands fans first balancing artistic integrity with bold commercial ambition.

Perform as One Band

United by purpose trust We aim high knowing that collaboration community doing it for right reasons drives success everyone.

Own Your Voice

We listen deeply speak honestly We value time welcome diverse perspectives keep rhythm open transparent communication alive.

Employment

Full time What do you get in return Inspiration knowledge career development on top our financial package You’ll also be working international bunch remarkable musically-infused individuals. On this note please know Songtradr equal opportunities employer Applicants not excluded grounds sex gender reassignment pregnancy maternity race marital status diversity thought disability age religion belief sexual orientation If need specific adjustments made throughout recruitment process please feel free let us know. If after reading this you know perfect role please apply via THIS LINK including resume plus brief summary professional achievement most proud date. We look forward hearing you!