Director, Core Business Finance

Global Sports Jobs Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement plan

Vacation and PTO

Job summary

On Location is seeking a Director, Core Business Finance to lead FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and finance transformation for Core G&A. You will translate business plans into reliable budgets and actionable insights across staffing, professional fees, T&E, and occupancy.

You will partner with Core leaders, HR, Controllership, and business leadership to drive enterprise visibility, challenge assumptions, and deliver sustained improvements in spend and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Finance or FP&A leadership experience in a complex multi-business environment.
• Strong cost-centre planning, workforce economics, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience leading cross-functional planning with senior business leaders.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and translate analysis into decisions.
• Proven experience managing finance or planning teams.
• Strong financial modelling, data, systems and process-improvement skills.
• Ability to lead transformation while maintaining day-to-day execution.
• Clear, concise executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior business partner to Core leaders and manage forecast quality.
• Lead Core G&A planning, budgeting, and long-range planning.
• Own workforce and labour planning including hires, open positions, and payroll taxes.
• Coordinate with FP&A, HR, and Controllership for central reporting.
• Drive performance reporting with insight into budget vs. actuals and variances.
• Identify savings and translate targets into actionable initiatives.
• Define ownership and processes for the Core G&A finance operating model.
• Lead finance transformation using Adaptive Planning, Workday processes, and SAP S/4HANA.
• Manage special projects from scoping to handoff, including time-tracking.
• Build and develop Core G&A finance and planning teams.

Skills

Finance leadership

Cost-center planning

Forecasting & variance analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Team leadership & development

Financial modelling

Job description

About the Role

The Director, Core Business Finance leads financial planning, forecasting, reporting, cost management, and finance transformation for On Location Core G&A. The role converts business plans, workforce movements, and operating assumptions into reliable budgets, forecasts, management insight, and clear actions. The scope covers approximately $115M of G&A across staffing, business development, professional fees, T&E, occupancy, and other G&A costs, while excluding event P&L, revenue, and COGS. The director partners with Core leaders, Finance, HR, Controllership, and business leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior business partner to Core leaders, challenging assumptions, testing hiring and spending decisions, explaining financial trade-offs, and holding FA budget owners accountable for forecast quality and cost outcomes.
• Lead Core G&A planning and forecasting, owning the annual budget, long-range planning, monthly reforecast, and executive planning cadence, and consolidating inputs from GMs, functional leaders, Finance, and HR into an enterprise view.
• Own workforce and labour planning, maintaining the Core G&A labour model for FTEs, contractors, open positions, backfills, hires, exits, compensation changes, merit, bonus, fringe, payroll taxes, allocation changes, and planned savings.
• Coordinate seamlessly with the wider FP&A function, communicating staffing allocations, legal costs, and marketing budgets with event FDs and supporting the central FP&A process for roll‑up and Corporate reporting.
• Drive performance reporting and insight by establishing a consistent view of budget, actual spend, latest forecast, run rate, variance, key drivers, and required actions so leaders understand where spending is moving, why, and what to do.
• Identify and deliver savings by translating enterprise cost targets into actionable initiatives, distinguishing structural savings from timing or vacancy savings, tracking commitments, and reporting realised benefits.
• Lead the Core G&A finance operating model by defining ownership, processes, data standards, reporting routines, and decision rights across Finance, HR, Controllership, and business leadership.
• Lead finance transformation by improving planning, reporting, data integration, automation, and management information through initiatives such as Adaptive Planning, Workday‑related workforce processes, SAP S/4HANA adoption, dashboard development, and finance workflow standardisation.
• Own and lead special projects from problem definition through stakeholder alignment, solution design, implementation, adoption, measurement, and handoff, including initiatives such as the time‑tracking project.
• Build and lead the team by recruiting, developing, and managing Core G&A finance and planning resources, establishing clear ownership, raising analytical and modelling standards, and creating a team that can operate with less manual intervention and stronger business partnership.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Finance or FP&A leadership experience in a complex, multi‑business environment.
• Strong command of cost‑centre planning, workforce economics, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience leading cross‑functional planning processes with senior business leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions and convert analysis into decisions.
• Experience managing and developing finance or planning teams.
• Strong financial modelling, data, systems, and process‑improvement skills.
• Ability to lead transformation while maintaining reliable day‑to‑day execution.
• Clear, concise communication with executives and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Competence in thought leadership; thinking strategically, analytically, conceptually, and innovatively.
• Leadership capacity to play an integral role in company growth.
• Entrepreneurial attitude towards the business and a strong work ethic.
• Credibility and trustworthiness in dealings with others.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, financial statements, and reports.
• Pro‑active.
• Flexible with the ability to adapt approach.

Salary

• $120,000 - $160,000 Annually (minimum will not fall below applicable State/local minimum salary thresholds).
• Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location, and may vary depending on job‑related qualifications, knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Locally competitive rewards packages, including short‑ and long‑term incentives as applicable.
• Growth and developmental opportunities.
• Robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

About the Company

On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company that owns UFC, WWE, and PBR; TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG.