Director, Strategic Finance - Venue Management

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Director, Strategic Finance – Venue Management ABOUT LEGENDS GLOBAL Legends Global is the premier partner to the world’s greatest live events, venues, and brands. We deliver a fully integrated suite of premium services through a white-label model that keeps our partners front and center — from feasibility and project development to sales, partnerships, hospitality, merchandise, venue management, and world-class content and booking. With a global network of more than 450 venues, hosting 20,000 events and welcoming 165 million guests annually, Legends Global brings unmatched scale, expertise, and connectivity to help our partners grow. The Legends Global Way guides how we operate: Align, Scale, Connect, Team, Win — shared success, repeatable systems, connected solutions, unstoppable teams, and wins that are earned every day. THE ROLE Legends Global is seeking a Director, Strategic Finance to serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the Venue Management business. This individual will operate as the finance voice within the BU's senior leadership team — working alongside peer functional leaders in Controllership, Insights/Analytics, HR, and IT, and closely with the President, to help run Venue Management as a cohesive, well-governed business. This is a strategic finance leadership position, with this individual serving as the BU's Head of FP&A, bringing forward-looking analysis and business partnership to the organization's most important decisions. This role will be expected to bring rigor and discipline to how Venue Management plans, forecasts, and understands its own performance day to day. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Finance Partnership to the BU Leadership Serve as a primary financial advisor and thought partner to Venue Management leadership, including the President, on strategy, investment decisions, portfolio/venue-level economics, and growth initiatives. Represent Venue Management's financial position and priorities in corporate-level planning processes, working closely with the SVP, FP&A. Bring a rigorous, scrutiny-ready lens to BU decision-making — stress-testing assumptions, sizing risk, and framing trade-offs with the discipline expected of a PE-backed business. Act as a connective tissue across the BU's leadership team — Controllership, Insights/Analytics, HR, and IT — ensuring finance, data, people, and systems priorities are aligned rather than run in silos. Head of FP&A for Venue Management Own the BU's annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning process, coordinating across venues, regions, and functional leads. Lead monthly management reporting and variance analysis, ensuring leadership has a clear, timely read on performance drivers, risks, and opportunities. Work closely with Insights/Analytics partners to inform the analytical infrastructure (models, dashboards, KPI frameworks) needed to run the BU with rigor at both the venue and portfolio level. Partner with Controllership on close-related matters (e.g., overhead allocation, chargebacks, one-time cost classification) to ensure reported results are clean, defensible, and audit-ready. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with the Insights/Analytics lead to ensure operational data and financial data tell a consistent story and to translate analytics into decisions. Coordinate with HR and IT peers on organizational design, resourcing, and systems needs (e.g., ERP rollout) that affect the BU's financial operations. Coordinate with Controllership during the monthly close process to review financial results and ensure alignment between operational drivers and reported figures. Contribute a finance-informed perspective to broader BU operating decisions, working alongside peer functional leaders and the President on Venue Management's leadership team. Performance Management Own the KPI framework for Venue Management (e.g., EBITDA, margin, budget attainment, venue-level profitability) and ensure consistent tracking and reporting. Ensure BU-level financial results and narratives are clean, well-supported, and ready to flow into broader corporate and global consolidation processes led by the SVP, FP&A. Identify and quantify cost savings, efficiency, and margin improvement opportunities for the business; partner with the President to prioritize and track execution. Participate in cross-enterprise finance initiatives (such as ERP implementations) as they touch Venue Management Job Qualifications & Behaviors: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred. Significant progressive finance experience, with demonstrated FP&A leadership and a track record of direct business partnership with senior operating executives (President/GM/COO level or equivalent). Experience operating in a private equity-backed or multi-site environment strongly preferred, with comfort operating under the discipline and scrutiny that comes with it. Background in venue management, live events, hospitality, sports & entertainment, or another multi-site operating business is a plus. Strong ERP and systems fluency (e.g., D365 or comparable platforms); experience partnering through an ERP implementation is a plus. Executive presence and the judgment to operate as a trusted advisor to a BU President — comfortable delivering difficult financial truths as well as strategic opportunities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial analysis into a clear narrative for varied audiences. Strong collaborator who can build trust and alignment across peer functional leaders (Controllership, Insights/Analytics, HR, IT) without formal authority over them. COMPENSATION This role offers a base salary range of $150,000–$175,000, plus performance-based incentives and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and a 401(k) plan. The position offers flexibility in level and compensation based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and overall scope of responsibility. WORKING CONDITIONS Location: Remote Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. NOTE: The essential responsibilities of this position are described under the headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Also, this document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Legends Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and encourages Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities, and protected Veterans to apply. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.