Director, Core Business Finance

Who We Are:

On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more. An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Position Overview: 

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 includes approximately $115M of G&A across staffing, business development, professional fees, T&E, occupancy, and other G&A costs. It excludes event P&L, revenue, and COGS.

 

Key areas of responsibility

• Serve as a senior business partner to Core leaders. Challenge assumptions, test hiring and spending decisions, explain financial trade-offs, and all FA budget owners accountable for forecast quality and cost outcomes.
• Lead Core G&A planning and forecasting. Own the annual budget, long-range planning, monthly reforecast, and executive planning cadence across Core G&A functions and business areas. Coordinate inputs from GMs, functional leaders, Finance, and HR and consolidate them into an enterprise view.
• Own workforce and labor planning. Maintain the Core G&A labor model, including FTEs, contractors, open positions, backfills, hires, exits, compensation changes, merit, bonus, fringe, payroll taxes, allocation changes, and planned savings.
• Seamless coordination with wider FP&A function. Working with the event FDs to communicate staffing allocations, legal costs and marketing budgets. Support the central FP&A process for roll up and Corporate reporting
• Drive performance reporting and insight. Establish a consistent view of budget, actual spend, latest forecast, run rate, variance, key drivers, and required actions. Reporting should help leaders understand not only where spending is moving, but why and what they should do about it.
• Identify and deliver savings. Translate enterprise cost targets into actionable initiatives, distinguish structural savings from timing or vacancy savings, track commitments, and report realized benefits.
• Lead the Core G&A finance operating model. Define ownership, processes, data standards, reporting routines, and decision rights across Finance, HR, Controllership, and business leadership.
• Lead finance transformation. Improve 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 standardization.
• Own and lead special projects. Identify, scope, and lead cross-functional projects that improve finance operations, data quality, reporting, cost visibility, or business accountability. Take projects from problem definition through stakeholder alignment, solution design, implementation, adoption, measurement, and handoff. Examples include the time-tracking initiative,
• Build and lead the team. Recruit, develop, and manage Core G&A finance and planning resources; establish clear ownership; raise analytical and modeling standards; and create a team that can operate with less manual intervention and stronger business partnership.

 Expected outcomes

• Timely, accurate, and decision-useful Core G&A budgets and forecasts.
• A trusted labor model reconciled to workforce movements and compensation changes.
• Clear monthly reporting that explains performance and recommends action.
• Measurable savings and stronger spending discipline.
• Fewer manual processes, clearer ownership, and better data quality.
• Successful adoption of new planning, reporting, and finance systems.
• Special projects delivered with clear ownership, measurable benefits, strong adoption, and sustainable handoffs.
• A capable Core G&A finance team with defined responsibilities and scalable ways of working.

Background and capabilities

• Finance or FP&A leadership experience in a complex, multi-business environment.
• Strong command of cost-center 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 modeling, 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.

 

Skills and abilities

• 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 their dealings with others 
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Financial Statements and reports
• Pro-active
• Flexible and ability to adapt approach
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Collaborative and team player
• Ability to prioritize and balance work

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Rate Minimum:

$120,000 annually(minimum will not fall below the applicable State/local minimum salary thresholds)

Hiring Rate Maximum:

$160,000 annually

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