Chief Financial Officer

Founded in 2001, Resident Advisor (RA) is one of the world's longest-running music media brands and a cornerstone of the dance, electronic and DJ ecosystem. The site's audience of over 7 million monthly users is drawn in by a combination of news, editorial, club listings and ticketing, RA‑branded events at venues and festivals worldwide, original films and a weekly mix series that has run for 20 years.

Today, RA operates a complex global business spanning ticketing, media, events, agency services, and software. Hundreds of millions move through our platform each year across multiple markets, entities, currencies, and payment flows.

As we enter our next phase, the challenge is not simply growth. It is building the systems, infrastructure, and operational leverage that allow us to scale efficiently while continuing to serve the culture that made RA what it is.

RA is entering a period where operational leverage, payments infrastructure, systems architecture, data visibility, and AI‑enabled efficiency will be as important to long‑term success as revenue growth itself.

This is not a traditional finance leadership role. While ownership of financial planning, governance, reporting, and capital efficiency remains fundamental, the broader mandate is to build the systems, infrastructure, controls, and decision‑making frameworks that allow a complex global platform business to operate with greater speed, visibility, and leverage.

Working closely with engineering, product, data, and commercial leaders, the CFO will modernise how information flows through the organisation, improve payments and financial infrastructure, unlock AI‑driven efficiencies, and create the operational foundations required for sustainable growth.

The successful candidate will see finance, data, systems, payments, and operational design as parts of the same problem: building a company that can scale efficiently while preserving the culture, independence, and ambition that make RA unique.

• Lead a comprehensive review of RA’s financial, operational, payments, and reporting infrastructure, and modernise the tooling and processes needed for the next stage of scale
• Design and implement the operational and commercial architecture required to support a significantly larger business
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product and Data to improve visibility, decision‑making, automation, and operational efficiency across the company
• Identify and deploy AI‑enabled opportunities that improve productivity, decision quality, and operating efficiency
• Lead ERP selection and implementation alongside broader finance and operational systems modernisation
• Improve payments infrastructure, settlement processes, controls, and financial workflows across a high‑volume global platform

• Own the company’s long‑range financial plan and help drive a substantial increase in profitability and enterprise value
• Improve cash generation, working capital efficiency, and capital allocation
• Establish clear operating metrics, forecasting processes, and performance frameworks that connect strategy to measurable outcomes
• Improve visibility into performance across RA’s various business models and revenue streams
• Partner with commercial leaders on pricing, margin optimisation, commercial discipline, and investment decisions
• Provide financial insight and challenge that improves decision‑making across the leadership team

• Serve as the independent financial voice to the Board and shareholders
• Own the integrity, reliability, and usability of the financial information used to run the company
• Maintain effective financial controls across a multi‑entity, multi‑currency international business
• Oversee treasury, compliance, audit, legal coordination, and financial risk management
• Ensure payments, fraud, chargeback, settlement, and regulatory risks remain appropriately managed as the business scales
• Continue improving the speed, efficiency, and automation of core finance processes and reporting cycles

• Genuine affinity for electronic music culture and RA's mission
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