Director, Core Business Finance

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.