Strategic Finance Business Partner, Group Functions; FTC)

Our Strategic Finance Business Partner will run financial forecasting, budgeting and in-year reforecasting for Yoto’s central group functions, manage their investment cases, and be the Finance business partner for our S&OP process. This is a great opportunity for someone who loves turning numbers into clear insight for non-finance colleagues, and who wants to shape how a fast-scaling business plans and makes decisions.

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!

Financial Forecasting and Budgeting

• Run forecasting, budgeting and in-year reforecasting for our central group functions, working closely with department leads to build plans that link to Yoto’s strategy and KPIs

• Deliver continuous improvements in our forecasting process and financial governance, leveraging our EPM (Pigment), ERP (Net Suite) and support from our Data team to increase accuracy through better data integrity, systemisation and AI

• Build and model hands-on in Pigment to unlock better reporting and forecasting for group functions.

Investment Cases

• Manage investment cases for our central group functions, from framing the problem and building the business case to testing the ROI and supporting prioritisation and sign-off

• Partner our Content, Product and Operations teams on CAPEX spend to ensure it’s supported by a healthy ROI and prioritised accordingly.

Group Business Partnering

• Be the Finance business partner for our S&OP process, using commercial thinking to balance demand vs. supply side risk, maximising revenue and limiting overstocks

• Partner on non-staff overheads, leveraging Pigment to promote self-service for department leads so that this is more variance management than report generation

• Support cash planning and working capital optimisation across the business.

• Experience presenting forecasts and variance analysis to non-finance colleagues, including senior leaders, in writing and in person, in a way that supports business decisions

• A track record of improving finance processes, for example by automating manual reporting or planning steps with Excel, planning tools, data tools or AI tools

• 2+ years’ post-qualification experience (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent practical experience, in FP&A, Strategic Finance or Commercial Finance

• Experience running budgeting and forecasting cycles and building financial models in Excel or a financial planning tool

• Experience building investment or business cases, and testing the assumptions behind them with budget holders.

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