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We’re looking for a commercially minded and strategic Head of Finance to lead financial performance and drive business impact across Betfair. This is a key leadership role steering profitable growth whilst transforming processes and ways of working.

As the finance lead for the Betfair business, you’ll collaborate with Betfair MD and Leadership Team, offering financial insight, strategic guidance, and operational challenge to maximise value across the portfolio. Reporting to the UKI Commercial Finance Director, you’ll also play a senior role in the Commercial Finance Leadership Team as a leader of a team of seven business partners.

What You’ll Do

• Be responsible for the UK & International Brand P&L: Own the forecasting, budgeting, and monthly reporting for Betfair’s revenue, marketing, and cost of sales. Ensure accuracy and insight in financial outputs.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to the Betfair MD and leadership team. Shape and challenge objectives and key results, support strategy development, and drive performance.
• Insight & Analysis: Deliver outstanding, future-focused financial analysis with a passion for key commercial drivers like NGR, Marketing return on investment, and Generosity.
• Performance Reporting: Champion the evolution of reporting tools and important metrics to improve clarity and decision-making across the business.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Group Finance, FP&A, BI, and other Flutter brands to ensure alignment and best-practice sharing.
• Finance Transformation: Lead finance transformation initiatives within Betfair and contribute to wider UKI commercial finance improvements—ensuring processes are future-ready and value-focused.
• Market Leadership: Act as the finance SME for Commercial Finance in Football/Racing/ SaS (TBC).
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing team of 7, in multiple locations, fostering a culture of growth, agility, and accountability.
• Finance Community Leadership: Collaborate with UKI Finance Directors and Heads of Finance to drive consistency, alignment, and excellence across the finance function.

How you’ll do it

• Act as a reliable strategic ally to senior leadership—curious, commercially savvy, and driven by outcomes.
• Bring strong financial and analytical skills, with the ability to distill complex data into actionable insight.
• Apply excellent commercial judgment and storytelling ability to articulate financial performance and influence decision-making.
• Navigate and influence within a matrixed, cross-functional environment, managing a broad range of senior stakeholders with credibility and clarity.
• Foster a culture of excellence, agility, and development, cultivating talent and building team capabilities for the future.

About Flutter UK & Ireland

Extraordinary starts here.

Flutter UK & Ireland unites a dozen brands, hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.

With the likes of Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars and Sky Betting & Gaming in the fold, we’re the largest division of global entertainment giant Flutter and boast some of the most popular apps and games in UK and Ireland markets.

At Flutter UK & Ireland, we can guarantee you that no two days will ever be the same — and you’ll have the chance to make a difference to your career, the industry, and your amazing colleagues.

What we’ll offer you

• £1,000 learning fund
• Uncapped leave
• Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
• Flexible ways of working – home or office, it’s your choice!
• Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme
• 16 hours paid volunteering time per year

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.