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 P , 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.

• 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…