Job Description

The Finance Director role will work closely with the Senior Management team and the Board, as well as having overall responsibility for developing company’s financial strategy and financial risk management. It is an exciting time to join company, with the redevelopment project, underway offering an integrated space for our education and community work.
Duties include:

• Managing a finance team of nine through two direct reports: a Head of Finance and Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
• Leading on financial strategy and budget setting for the organization
• Influencing a business-partnering culture within finance
• Preparing consolidated financial statements and statutory accounts for the separate entities and ensure a successful year-end audit
• Meeting reporting requirements in relation to funding and loans
• Ensuring cash-flow is compatible with company operations
• Ensuring strong and effective financial controls are in place, identifying cost savings and analyzing financial risk
• Informing business decisions through insightful financial analysis

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Be a qualified accountant with significant experience leading a financial function. This could be within the arts, charity or commercial sectors; although arts experience welcome, it is not essential.
• Have experience presenting financial information to the Board and for funders
• Have a keen interest in performing arts and demonstrate the Old Vic’s values throughout their work including creativity, excellence, inclusion and custodianship
• Demonstrate an ability to contribute to company’s core artistic, commercial, digital, diversity, sustainability and wellbeing aims
• Have demonstrable experience applying financial accounting to complex financial models
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships outside of finance while keeping the finance team motivated and engaged
• Have a strategic mind and the ability to contribute in board meetings while also having strong technical skills and the ability and willingness to contribute across all areas of finance