Full-Time Finance Director

Informa Markets Infrastructure and Construction Group is seeking a Finance Director to drive budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and strategic decision-making.

In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with commercial teams to ensure financial accuracy, align business operations with strategic objectives, and deliver measurable returns.

1. Budgeting and Forecasting:
• Responsible for submission of timely, accurate, and commercially focused budget and forecasting, in line with agreed templates and timetables
• Challenge commercial team on business issues and revenue/cost assumptions, including demonstrable ROI on all costs incurred
• Work with commercial team to identify key commercial issues and ensure commentary highlights these issues concisely
• Anticipate likely review questions and answer them in advance (with supporting analysis where appropriate)

2. Cost and investment appraisal:
• Demonstrate a deep, fundamental understanding of all costs in product and portfolio P&Ls, including investment/capex
• Be able to clearly advise and communicate the reasons for incurring costs, demonstrating financial/commercial returns
• Review and challenge cost budgets from a granular zero-base (i.e. building from scratch, not rolling forward prior year)
• Prepare and challenge investment/business cases
• Understand the importance/priority of each cost line so that savings can be made to fund investment

3. Physical & Digital Event/Product planning:
• Provide commercial and strategic insight and analysis to the business in setting product/portfolio strategy
• Take shared responsibility – with commercial team – for ensuring event plans are delivered on time and in line with agreed format and TM1 Product Tracker
• Liaise with internal JV partners and external partners to agree event plan strategies, financials and timetables
• Ensure best practice is followed when preparing plans, using experience across multiple events/portfolios
• Support decisions/recommendations with accurate and relevant data
• Work with commercial team – for setting pricing and re-book targets

4. M&A proposals:
• Work with commercial team to create projections and estimate synergies
• Shared responsibility – working with commercial team – for producing integration plan
• Work with SSC as needed

5. Event launches:
• Shared responsibility – working with commercial team – for evaluating attractiveness of launches
• Help commercial team to create projections based on underlying market data and customer segmentation
• Prepare launch proposals using Group template

6. Revenue accruals:
• Review and approve any revenue accruals
• Ensure third party contracts are place and approved by Legal
• Ensure commercial team and the Finance Team have copies of contracts with third parties

7. Cost accruals:
• Review and approve any expense accruals working with product/event teams
• Review balance sheet on a monthly basis
• Approve significant items as required
• Work with Finance Team to determine risks/upsides on a monthy basis and make timely adjustments to P&L
• Ensure material releases do not come as a surprise to CFO

8. Month end reporting:
• Review and approve month end flash report highlighting key variances
• Review and approve month end performance bridges
• Provide relevant and concise commercial commentary to central team

9. Sales commissions:
• Review and approve sales commission payments
• Ensure commission structures and targets aligned to deliver budget and strategic goals

10. Capital expenditure:
• Shared responsibility – working with commercial team – for creating clear and concise capex proposals, including financial returns, cash flow, implementation and risks
• Challenge commercial team on assumptions and returns

11. Sales reporting:
• Review and approve weekly sales report, ensuring it includes concise commentary on trading vs target and risks/upsides
• Raise trading issues with commercial teams and propose solutions for material variances

12. Audit and compliance:
• Support external and internal audit processes as necessary

13. Commercial agility:
• Able to use technical accounting and analytical skills to highlight data trends and deliver business results

14. Customer orientation:
• Able to develop a deep understanding of products and markets, as well as the needs of customers and other stakeholders

15. Operational excellence:
• Able to instill a strong and seamless control environment, developing and using KPIs to support growth and tightly manage costs

16. Technology:
• Has a good understanding of reporting systems and analysis tools to provide commercial insight

17. High performance:
• Able to contribute to the success of a high performing team, communicating effectively with others and influencing in a matrix without direct authority

Degree in Finance or Accounting with 10 years of relevant experience preferably in the Event or Media business.

The salary range for this role is $135K-$165K, depending on experience

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