Director of FP&A

Senior Manager / Director, Strategic Finance & FP&A | Beverly Hills, CA (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Our Client, a well-capitalized global entertainment and live events company in an aggressive growth phase - both organically and through acquisition - is hiring a Senior Manager / Director, Strategic Finance and FP&A to build and develop its U.S. financial planning and analysis function from the ground up.

Location: Beverly Hills, CA (Onsite 3 days/week; Tuesday-Thursday preferred)
Compensation: $160K-$180K base, plus discretionary bonus
Reporting To: Chief Financial Officer
Start Date: ASAP

About the Role
The U.S. finance team is currently lean and accounting-focused. As the company executes a major growth strategy, leadership needs to build a real FP&A function from the ground up. There is currently no 13-week cash flow forecast in place, the long-range strategic plan has just been handed to the U.S. team to operationalize, and commercial deal underwriting infrastructure is only beginning to take shape. This is a high-ownership builder role, not a maintainer role, reporting directly to a first-time CFO who is actively shaping the team and function.

What You'll Do

• Establish and lead the U.S. FP&A function, beginning with core planning, forecasting, cash-flow, and operating-model capabilities
• Translate the company's long-range and annual plans into a detailed U.S. financial framework, including operating assumptions, business drivers, performance metrics, and accountability
• Build and maintain financial models for core commercial opportunities, evaluating economics, returns, cash requirements, and recoupment
• Partner with the CFO and senior leadership on financial analysis and modeling for strategic investments, partnerships, and potential acquisitions
• Develop and institutionalize a 13-week cash-flow forecasting process, providing clear visibility into liquidity, commitments, and capital markets activity
• Consolidate, structure, and analyze data from Excel and several evolving internal systems to produce reliable management reporting and actionable insights
• Develop scalable FP&A processes, reporting tools, and analytical standards to support decision-making across U.S. operations
• Work closely with the CFO and business leaders to evaluate performance, identify risks and opportunities, and translate financial analysis into practical business decisions
• Take ownership of ambiguous or evolving priorities, bringing sound judgment, initiative, and adaptability throughout the function's build phase

Required Qualifications

• Experience in the entertainment, technology, or software industries
• Broad, well-rounded FP&A skill set with comfort across operating models, commercial deal analysis, and M&A financial modeling simultaneously
• Strong financial modeling capabilities, including the ability to build models from scratch rather than maintain existing ones
• Comfort with data querying and bringing raw data to model-ready stage independently
• Resourceful and self-directed - comfortable operating without established playbooks or significant hand-holding, in an environment where systems and infrastructure are still evolving

Preferred Qualifications

• M&A financial analysis experience, including direct work on deal modeling and pipeline analysis
• Ticketing, live events, or music industry experience
• Private equity or investment banking background
• IFRS familiarity
• Experience with Microsoft Business Central and/or NetSuite
• Data querying skills (SQL or similar)