Director, Strategic Finance - Venue Management

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary financial advisor and thought partner to Venue Management leadership, including the President, on strategy, investment decisions, portfolio/venue-level economics, and growth initiatives.
• Represent Venue Management's financial position and priorities in corporate-level planning processes, working closely with the SVP, FP&A.
• Bring a rigorous, scrutiny-ready lens to BU decision-making — stress-testing assumptions, sizing risk, and framing trade-offs with the discipline expected of a PE-backed business.
• Act as a connective tissue across the BU's leadership team — Controllership, Insights/Analytics, HR, and IT — ensuring finance, data, people, and systems priorities are aligned rather than run in silos.
• Own the BU's annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning process, coordinating across venues, regions, and functional leads.
• Lead monthly management reporting and variance analysis, ensuring leadership has a clear, timely read on performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Work closely with Insights/Analytics partners to inform the analytical infrastructure (models, dashboards, KPI frameworks) needed to run the BU with rigor at both the venue and portfolio level.
• Partner with Controllership on close-related matters (e.g., overhead allocation, chargebacks, one-time cost classification) to ensure reported results are clean, defensible, and audit-ready.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Partner with the Insights/Analytics lead to ensure operational data and financial data tell a consistent story and to translate analytics into decisions.
  • Coordinate with HR and IT peers on organizational design, resourcing, and systems needs (e.g., ERP rollout) that affect the BU's financial operations.
  • Coordinate with Controllership during the monthly close process to review financial results and ensure alignment between operational drivers and reported figures.
  • Contribute a finance-informed perspective to broader BU operating decisions, working alongside peer functional leaders and the President on Venue Management's leadership team.
• Performance Management:
  • Own the KPI framework for Venue Management (e.g., EBITDA, margin, budget attainment, venue-level profitability) and ensure consistent tracking and reporting.
  • Ensure BU-level financial results and narratives are clean, well-supported, and ready to flow into broader corporate and global consolidation processes led by the SVP, FP&A.
  • Identify and quantify cost savings, efficiency, and margin improvement opportunities for the business; partner with the President to prioritize and track execution.
  • Participate in cross-enterprise finance initiatives (such as ERP implementations) as they touch Venue Management.

Job Qualifications & Behaviors

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred.
• Significant progressive finance experience, with demonstrated FP&A leadership and a track record of direct business partnership with senior operating executives (President/GM/COO level or equivalent).
• Experience operating in a private equity-backed or multi-site environment strongly preferred, with comfort operating under the discipline and scrutiny that comes with it.
• Background in venue management, live events, hospitality, sports & entertainment, or another multi-site operating business is a plus.
• Strong ERP and systems fluency (e.g., D365 or comparable platforms); experience partnering through an ERP implementation is a plus.
• Executive presence and the judgment to operate as a trusted advisor to a BU President — comfortable delivering difficult financial truths as well as strategic opportunities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial analysis into a clear narrative for varied audiences.
• Strong collaborator who can build trust and alignment across peer functional leaders (Controllership, Insights/Analytics, HR, IT) without formal authority over them.

Compensation

This role offers a base salary range of $150,000–$175,000, plus performance-based incentives and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and a 401(k) plan. The position offers flexibility in level and compensation based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and overall scope of responsibility.