Senior Director, Corporate Finance

Department: Corporate Finance
Location: London, United Kingdom
Working Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days in local office)
Type: Full-time | Permanent

The Role

We are hiring a Senior Director, Corporate Finance in London to support all of Kobalt’s business units. This high-impact, commercially focused position will be part of the global Corporate Finance team and report to the EVP, Corporate Finance. You will help to drive the business through strategic FP&A – owning multi-year budgeting and strategic modelling, providing insight including revenue performance to C-Suite and Board and supporting capital markets initiatives.

What You’ll Do

• Take full ownership of the multi-year (5-year) financial models, incorporating multi-entity budgeting, capital structure planning and evaluation of strategic growth initiatives.
• Lead the global budgeting and quarterly re-forecasting processes across all business units, ensuring seamless integration of revenue, margin, costs, and cash flows.
• Continuously drive improvement in modelling and forecasting, including refining model logic and assumptions while operating across multiple systems.
• Drive the month-end close analysis, delivering comprehensive actuals vs. forecast comparisons, variance commentary, and reporting packs to the C-suite and Board.
• Improve and integrate data across multiple systems and departments to increase reliability, accuracy and usefulness of reporting.
• Respond to ad-hoc requests for financial information/analysis and supporting strategic and operational decision-making as appropriate.
• Liaise with banks and manage bank reporting deliverables, including covenant reporting.

What You’ll Bring

Preferred:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA) with experience of independently managing forecasts and budgeting processes as well as owning complex models.
• 8+ years experience in corporate development and/or budgeting role and experience preparing deliverables and presenting to C-Suite.
• Proven experience or solid understanding of debt raising, capital structure optimization, or refinancing transactions, including banking arrangements and credit facilities.
• Extensive experience managing a team of both senior and junior reports across multiple offices or time zones.
• Advanced level of Excel as well as financial modelling skills, having built models from scratch.
• Experience designing, implementing and documenting FP&A processes, improving efficiency and delivering department goals.
• Strong experience overseeing revenue forecasting, and comfortable defining specific deliverables and proposing solutions.
• Experience querying and manipulating large volume complex datasets/databases and comfortable using systems and tools such as Adaptive, Hyperion and BI tools like Tableau.
• Experience working in the music or creative industries is a plus, but the most important thing is that you have an ability to work independently, and can efficiently manage tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment and of course, a passion for working in music!