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About the Role

This role is a senior finance partner to business leadership, responsible for driving financial planning, performance management, and enabling commercial decision-making across our EMEA MCT capability. The role also supports and helps to coordinate the wider Global MCT finance agenda. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, commercially minded finance leader who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment. They will bring strong ownership and judgment, confidently supporting, challenging, and influencing senior stakeholders to drive profitable growth, anticipate risks and opportunities, and translate complex financial and operational information into clear insight and action. They will continually raise the quality of planning, forecasting, and reporting while driving improvements in processes and ways of working. As a key member of the FP&A leadership team, you will lead and develop a small team while playing an active leadership role across the wider FP&A team. You will create clarity and accountability, align priorities to business and Finance goals, and lead by example to foster a collaborative, high-performing culture focused on commercial insight and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business leaders, providing commercial insight, constructive challenge, and clear recommendations to support decision-making.
Lead and support budgeting, forecasting, and longer-term planning, translating business strategy and operational plans into robust financial plans and targets.
Identify risks and opportunities early, assess their potential impact, and work with leadership to determine their validity and appropriate actions.
Improve forecasting accuracy and visibility through stronger assumptions, engagement, and alignment with business stakeholders and flexibility of scenario analysis where relevant.
Support cash forecasting and working capital performance where relevant.
Deliver accurate management reporting, ensuring leadership has timely, and decision-useful visibility of business performance which is also aligned at a group level.
Translate complex financial and operational data into clear commercial insight, highlighting the key drivers behind performance.
Provide meaningful analysis of actuals, forecasts and variances, identifying trends, risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate actions.
Develop reporting that provides greater visibility of revenue, margin and profitability across relevant dimensions such as clients, projects, segments or product level.
Drive improvements in planning and forecasting processes, reducing manual activity and increasing consistency, accuracy and accountability.
Lead or contribute to finance transformation initiatives, working across Finance and the wider business to embed sustainable improvements.
Champion effective use of data, technology and automation (including the use of AI) to improve financial analysis and reporting.
Foster a continuous-improvement mindset, challenging existing ways of working and identifying opportunities to simplify and strengthen finance operations.
Build strong, trusted relationships across Finance and the wider business, creating alignment around priorities, performance and financial outcomes.
Work effectively across functions, teams and regions to resolve issues, improve ways of working and deliver shared objectives.
Lead, coach and develop team members, setting clear expectations and creating opportunities for growth and increased ownership.
Contribute to a high-performance culture centred on commercial insight, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with 8+ years relevant financial experience gained in FP&A and/or commercial finance roles.
Strong understanding of financial management & business processes.
Significant experience in forecasting and budgeting cycles with ability to identify and then act on improvement to processes and outcomes.
Ability to work at pace and be flexible in approach to still deliver results in an entrepreneurial/high growth company environment.
Strong, confident communicator, with a proven track record of being able to influence senior stakeholders.
Direct line management experience resulting in high performance.
A proactive, hands-on approach with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and take ownership.
Continuous improvement mindset.
Experience working for a SME.
Experience working for global business.
Experience in sports or a related entertainment industry.
Experience in a people-led agency environment.
Experience working with revenue pipelines through CRM tools such as Salesforce.
Comfortable with a change environment and driving automation and process change.
Experience using a financial planning system (such as Planful, Anaplan).
Personal empathy with sports.

Skills

Financial planning
Performance management
Commercial decision-making
Budgeting
Forecasting
Financial analysis
Reporting
Stakeholder management
Process improvement
Automation
Data analysis
Team leadership
Coaching
Salesforce
Planful
Anaplan

Location

EMEA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years relevant financial experience

Education Level

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Benefits

Core monthly budget for flexible benefits package
Renowned Team Days
Summer Away Days
23 standard days of holiday
1 Birthday holiday
2 'Big Life Event' holidays
1 Admin Day
Office closure over Christmas
Bank Holidays
Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
Performance Reviews every 6 months
Discretionary salary increases
Private healthcare (Vitality)
Health Cash Plan (Medicash)
Mobile phone contribution
Sport Challenge contribution
Gym membership contribution
2x annual kit drops

About the Company

We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues by knowing fans best.
We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more.
Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon.
We are almost 1000 people, based out of 14 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Equal Opportunity

Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.