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About the Role
The Group Commercial Finance Director is a new senior leadership role responsible for Soho House's Commercial Finance transformation. This role oversees debt, banking relationships, property, leases, insurance, commercial agreements, new site feasibility, and capital planning. It also involves finance business partnering for various group businesses and championing AI-enabled analytics for improved decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own Group debt management, monitoring facilities and supporting refinancing initiatives.
- Manage banking facilities and relationships to support the Group's liquidity and funding needs.
- Own commercial and financial oversight of the Group's Leases across the portfolio.
- Lead Property Management from a commercial finance perspective.
- Own JV & HMA agreements, ensuring commercial terms are understood, managed and optimised.
- Own Key Contracts, providing financial oversight and commercial input into major agreements.
- Own the Group's insurance programmes, working closely with the business to ensure appropriate coverage.
- Lead claims handling, ensuring claims are managed efficiently and effectively.
- Own Business Interruption (BI) and Contingent Business Interruption (CBI) claims.
- Provide ongoing, day-to-day support to Operations on any claims and coverage matters.
- Regularly review insurance programmes and coverage with the business.
- Own New Site Review & Feasibility, leading financial appraisal and underwriting of new site opportunities.
- Critically review feasibility models, challenging inputs and assumptions.
- Ensure a clear understanding of the technical accounting impacts of new site decisions under GAAP.
- Present feasibility and underwriting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Own Capital Planning governance across the Group, setting and maintaining policy.
- Lead day-to-day management, review and reporting of Capital Planning.
- Act as lead finance business partner to Soho Works.
- Act as lead finance business partner to IHDB.
- Provide commercial finance business partnering to Partnerships, Residences and Other Businesses.
- Champion the use of AI-enabled analytics and automation to strengthen capital planning, new site feasibility and underwriting analysis.
- Leverage ERP and AI-enabled data to improve decision-making on debt, capital allocation and commercial agreements.
- Act as key business partner to Development, Legal, IHDB and Works, representing Commercial Finance in Development, Capex and Ops Transformation forums.
- Lead and develop a dedicated commercial finance team, building specialist capability.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in senior commercial finance leadership roles within complex, multi-site or property-related businesses.
- Proven track record managing debt, banking relationships and treasury-adjacent commercial finance matters.
- Deep expertise in property, leases, JV/HMA agreements and capital planning within a multinational, multi-brand environment.
- Experience managing corporate insurance programmes and claims, including Business Interruption (BI) and Contingent Business Interruption (CBI).
- Experience leading new site review, feasibility studies and underwriting to support expansion and investment decisions.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge under GAAP, with an understanding of how new site decisions impact the Group's accounts.
- Experience embedding capital planning governance, policy and reporting frameworks.
- Experience business partnering diversified or newer business lines.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled analytics and automation to strengthen capital planning, feasibility and investment decision-making.
- Commercially astute, with the ability to negotiate and manage complex commercial agreements and translate them into clear financial and strategic insight.
- Qualified Accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with strong technical grounding and leadership presence.
Skills
- Strategic Leadership
- Global Perspective
- Technical & Analytical Rigour
- Data & AI Fluency
- Governance & Control
- Stakeholder Influence
- Risk Management
- Change Management
Education Level
- Qualified Accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Benefits
- Soho Friends Membership
- 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
- Staff Room Rates
- Private Health and Dental Care
- Weekly Pay
- Life Assurance
- Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
- In Office Dog Policy on Fridays
- Season Ticket Loan
- Christmas Office Closure
- 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice
- Free Counselling Sessions
- Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities
- Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
- Exclusive access to our benefits platform with hundreds of discounts
- Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes
About the Company
- Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks.
- Whether you’re seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to grow your career.