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About the Role
The Head of Finance, Audio sits at the heart of Global's Audio business, acting as a core member of the Audio leadership team. This role is accountable for gross margin performance across the Audio portfolio, working in lockstep with Commercial leadership to drive our business forward. As a trusted partner and constructive challenger, you will be in the room for the decisions that matter — influencing strategy, challenging trade-offs and ensuring financial discipline and commercial ambition are fully aligned. You will combine strategic insight, financial rigour and commercial judgement to drive better decision-making, delivering sustained improvements in profitability, revenue quality and margin efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Operate as an embedded member of the Audio leadership team, shaping commercial strategy and influencing key business decisions
- Own Audio gross margin performance, driving accountability across revenue, pricing, cost of sales and investment decisions
- Lead performance planning and forecasting, setting robust budgets, forecasts and long-range plans that underpin strategic decision-making
- Lead the development and evolution of pricing strategy, using data and market insight to optimise yield and strengthen market positioning
- Play a leading role in shaping commercial trading deals and commission models, ensuring incentive frameworks align with Global's strategic and financial objectives
- Lead financial evaluation and rigorous challenge of revenue initiatives and investment decisions, influencing decision-making to drive the best business outcomes
- Drive cost optimisation across the revenue-linked cost base, embedding strong cost discipline and value for money
- Ensure high-quality financial governance and data integrity, establishing a single source of truth for Audio performance and performance metrics
- Partner with Group FP&A to ensure consistency of targets and performance tracking
- Establish a seamless partnership with the Reporting Hub with clear RACI and efficient delivery of core financial reports and processes
- Lead and continue to develop a high-performing finance team, maintaining strong capability across modelling, analytics and commercial decision support
Requirements
- Proven experience in a senior finance leadership role, ideally within a commercial, subscription or advertising-led environment
- Credibility to operate as a peer to senior commercial leaders, influencing high-impact decisions with confidence and authority
- Clear and confident communication style, able to distil complex concepts into compelling, outcome-focused narratives
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to influence at Executive and Board level
- Strong track record of driving financial performance, margin improvement and value creation
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability, able to translate complex financial and operational data into strategic insight
- Deep understanding of pricing strategy, commercial models and cost optimisation levers
- Experience evaluating revenue initiatives, trading deals and commission structures
- Strong strategic thinking capability, comfortable operating in complex and ambiguous environments
- A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build high-performing teams and work cross-functionally
- Commercial awareness of media, advertising and audio / podcasting markets
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Analytics
- Commercial decision support
- Pricing strategy
- Commercial models
- Cost optimisation
- Revenue initiative evaluation
- Trading deal evaluation
- Commission structure evaluation
- Strategic thinking
- Team building
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Media market awareness
- Advertising market awareness
- Audio market awareness
- Podcasting market awareness
Experience Level
- Senior finance leadership
About the Company
- Global's Audio business
- Global's most strategic business areas