Head of Strategic Finance

We're looking for a Head of Strategic Finance to join our Finance team to lead capital strategy, FP&A, and commercial decision support at a critical stage of Yoto's growth.

About Yoto Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like Brain Bots.

Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.

Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast
50.Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!

We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it! Yoto’s Finance Team Yoto's Finance team is agile by design. We believe agile, well-structured teams move faster, build stronger relationships across the business, and make better decisions.

The team supports significant revenue across hardware, content, subscriptions, and global operations, and is actively rebuilding its engine for an AI-enabled world, with a clear mandate to reduce processing time and invest that bandwidth in strategic work. This role sits at the heart of that ambition, working closely with the CFO and embedded across commercial, product, and engineering teams.

What you’ll be doing :

Lead capital strategy, fundraise readiness, and board narrative - owning the numbers and the story that sits behind them for senior stakeholders and investors

Drive scenario modelling and commercial decision support across the business, partnering with commercial, growth, content, product, and engineering teams

Own the unit economics of Yoto's content business - including royalty structures, card library performance, and the P&L of Yoto Originals and Yoto Space Lead and develop a small team of strategic finance business partners, each owning a defined slice of the commercial picture across market, growth, and international

Own Yoto's FP&A platform (Pigment), ensuring it delivers clean, decision-ready outputs; partnering with Finance Platform on the systems underneath it Define and lead the development of departmental roadmaps and initiatives that support Yoto's long-term financial strategy, working alongside the CFO and senior leadership.

What you’ll bring:

Proven experience in FP&A or strategic finance at a senior level, with a track record of building models and forecasts that have directly informed business decisions

Experience presenting to boards or senior investors, with the ability to translate financial complexity into clear, compelling narrativeA working understanding of content economics — royalty structures, IP ownership models, or subscription unit economics — or the commercial curiosity to develop it quickly

Experience managing and developing finance professionals, with a clear approach to setting expectations, developing capability, and maintaining high standards

Strong command of FP&A tooling (experience with Pigment or a comparable platform is…