About the Role
The Head of Commercial Finance will be responsible for financial modeling, commercial strategy, and cross-functional financial partnerships to support Ticket Tailor's new initiatives, client relationships, and financial health. This role is pivotal in a new venture set to be transformational for the business, acting as a key finance stakeholder for payments, pricing, tax, and financial processing.
Responsibilities
- Owning complex financial modelling for new products, focusing on pricing, business models, and high-value deals.
- Translating complex data into clear strategic decisions and outcomes.
- Building cross-functional relationships and presenting strategy to leadership.
- Supporting the accountancy firm and internal ops team with ongoing activities and finance best practice.
- Becoming the key finance stakeholder and expert on payments, pricing, tax, and financial processing.
- Modelling and pricing ownership of new initiatives.
- Providing ongoing budgeting, modelling, and reconciliation of new business models.
- Leading strategic negotiation and financial modelling for high-value client deals.
- Partnering with Product, Tech, Operations, Sales, and Success to understand customer usage data.
- Creating tailored narratives from data to support decision-making and strategic planning.
- Presenting strategies and outcomes to leadership.
- Contributing to the broader team vision, establishing goals, priorities, and milestones.
- Implementing best practice and process improvement with the accountancy firm and internal ops team.
Requirements
- Demonstrated commercial success in Financial Planning and Accounting (FP&A), Strategy, pricing, or a commercially analytical field, delivering quantifiable outcomes.
- Experience in the payments sector is ideal; experience at a scaled ticketing platform, ecommerce brand, or marketplace is also relevant.
- Comfortable building reports and dashboards, ideally with SQL, Google Data Studios, and visualization tools like Looker or Tableau.
- Proactive in using AI to speed up analysis, modeling, and reporting.
- Strong commercial instincts with rigorous attention to detail.
- Ability to move between granular detail and clear strategic recommendations.
- Hands-on approach with a willingness to execute tasks of all sizes.
- Comfortable operating in a flat structure.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Commercial strategy
- Financial partnerships
- Pricing
- Business models
- Data analysis
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Leadership presentation
- Finance best practice
- Payment processing
- Budgeting
- Reconciliation
- Negotiation
- SQL
- Google Data Studios
- Looker
- Tableau
- AI utilization
Location
- On-site interview required
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time (four days per week)
Experience Level
- Head of Commercial Finance
Salary/Compensations
- £90,000 - £110,000 (full-time)
- Pro-rata £72,000 - £88,000 (4 days per week)
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- profit share
Benefits
- Profit share
About the Company
- Ticket Tailor is a leading white-labeled, self-serve event ticketing platform committed to empowering event creators with simple and affordable ticketing.
- The company focuses on making a positive impact through 'Growth on Purpose' and is a certified B Corp.
- Processes 22 million tickets and over $1bn of order value annually for over 50k global event creators.
- Has a world-class NPS score and prides itself on a simple, powerful, customer-first platform.
- Is a fully independent, profitable, and bootstrapped company.
- Has experienced significant growth, 5x revenues in 5 years, and expanded market share sustainably.
Equal Opportunity
- Ticket Tailor is passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people can thrive, be inspired, and feel comfortable to be themselves.
- As a Certified B-Corp, they lead with purpose to disrupt the ticketing industry while accommodating and celebrating people of all backgrounds.
- Encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
