Finance Director

 

 

The Role: Finance Director – ATG Productions

The Finance Director – ATG Productions is part of the Leadership Team for ATG Productions and will be instrumental in driving the success and direction of the business. This will be done through the reporting, analysis, and interrogation of insightful and timely information and by providing appropriate and accurate financial information to drive decision making.

This role is based in London, predominantly at ATG Productions office (at The Tom Stoppard Theatre), occasionally spending time with the wider ATG commercial finance team (115 Shaftesbury Avenue) or with the financial reporting team in Woking (Alexander House, Church Path).

Reports to Senior Producer at ATG Productions, with a matrix dotted line into the Group CFO. Manages one direct report: Assistant Accountant – ATG Productions.

Key responsibilities

Financial management of ATG Productions department

Oversee the financial management of ATG Productions, and lead the business partner relationship.
Work with the ATG Productions Leadership team to deliver annual budget, forecasts, cash flow, and strategic plans to ATG UK Senior Leadership Team to drive profitability and in line with Group requirements.
Proactively model and analyse business opportunities, providing strategic insights on viability and potential to the business.
Review monthly management accounts, overseeing the month end process and highlighting any business issues that emerge, to ensure correct financial results are recorded in group reporting processes, including P&L, Balance Sheet, and cashflow.
Own and continuously improve finance processes across ATG Productions, identifying efficiencies in line with the company’s emphasis on simple, efficient solutions.
Define and maintain departmental reporting templates, dashboards and KPIs so that information is timely, consistent, and decision-ready.
Own and maintain financial controls across ATG Productions, ensuring the department adheres to the Delegation of Authority as defined by the Group.

Leadership

Lead, manage and develop the Assistant Accountant, setting objectives, providing regular feedback, and conducting performance and development reviews.
Drive financial acumen of the department, providing ad-hoc training to the General Management team in areas such as VAT, TTR and FEU taxes, and miscellaneous excel skills.
Identify development opportunities for team members, promoting a culture of learning consistent with the company’s values.
Manage relationship and work closely with outsourced Production Accounting, helping communication, compliance, and flow of critical information.
Liaise with ATG’s finance teams in the UK Head Office and internationally regarding productions and investments in the respective territories.

Theatrical productions

Review production budgets prior to their greenlighting, and lead the process for the preparation and presentation of Production Investment Committee documentation, including department income from the production, and forward-plan corporate and investment structure for new shows.
Work with General Management Team to review production accounts and appraise financial performance, including reviewing cashflow requirements during rehearsal period while investment is being raised, and once performances commence.
Ensure production accounts are appropriately closed out at the end of the production.
Calculate, and advise on tax implications for, investor distributions in accordance with recoupment waterfalls.
Prepare production SPV entities’ statutory accounts and corporation tax workings including TTR calculations. Liaise with external taxation compliance providers and ATG Group Finance team to co-ordinate the statutory filing. Consider impact of changes to financial reporting standards, such as the implementation of the new FRS 102 Section 20.
Drive investment strategy and management reporting on investments held, including impairment assessments, external investment opportunities, and any investment stake which ATG retain.
Prepare Investor and Co-producer contract templates.
Represent the department by attending Opening Nights for productions.

Group Reporting

Collaborate with Group Finance to ensure any audit deliverables for ATG group audit are provided in a timely manner.
Prepare Productions Consolidation for inclusion in ATG Group consolidated statutory accounts, equity accounting or consolidating annual results for each self-produced production as applicable.
Respond to ad hoc requests from stakeholders including Group Executive Leadership Team as required.

Your skills, qualities, and experience

If you can demonstrate many of the essential criteria, we encourage you to apply, and welcome transferable skills from other industries or backgrounds.

Fully qualified accountant ACA, ACCA, or CIMA (or equivalent)
Practice-trained with experience in a similar role or industry knowledge advantageous
Excellent attention to detail; well organised and process driven
Enthusiastic and adaptable working style, keen to identify opportunities for improvements and personal growth
Confident communicator, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
Collaborative working style
Ambitious, positive, tenacious, and keen to learn
A genuine passion for theatre
Advanced Excel and IT skills

ATG Productions is the award-winning producing and general management arm of the world’s largest live theatre company, ATG Entertainment – dedicated to producing critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and creatively ambitious work for the West End, Broadway and beyond. Led by Adam Speers and Zareen Walker, we place partnerships and creative excellence at our core.

CURRENT & UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS: the seven-time Olivier Award-winning CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre); DOLLY: A True Original Musical the new Dolly Parton musical (St James Theatre, Broadway); the three-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Public Theatre, New York); Other Desert Cities (Hudson Theatre) and Pretty Woman: The Musical (UK Tour).

RECENT PRODUCTIONS & CO-PRODUCTIONS: the biggest new musical of the Edinburgh Fringe BLISS (Edinburgh Fringe); the Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour); Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (Broadway); ART starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris (Broadway); 50 First Dates: The Musical (West End); the official KC and the Sunshine Band musical Get Down Tonight (West End); the three-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (West End/Southwark Playhouse); CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (Broadway); Dear Evan Hansen (West End/UK Tour/Asia); Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger (West End/Broadway); A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal (West End/New York); Barcelona starring Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte (West End); Player Kings starring Ian McKellen (West End/UK Tour); I Should Be So Lucky: The Official Stock Aitken Waterman Musical (UK Tour); Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker (West End/Broadway); Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup (West End); A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain (Broadway); Pretty Woman The Musical (West End/UK Tour/Zurich); Mother Goose starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop (West End/UK Tour); The Doctor (West End); Mad House (West End); the Olivier Award-winning Cyrano de Bergerac (West End/Glasgow/New York); The Seagull (West End); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour); 9 to 5 the Musical (West End/UK Tour/Australia); Ian McKellen On Stage (West End/UK Tour/Broadway) and the Olivier Award-winning Caroline, or Change (West End/Broadway).

Our values

ATG Entertainment’s values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.

 

THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

 

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to play their part in achieving our goals and upholding our Corporate Social Responsibility priorities:

 

Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our culture

You will help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.

 

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

 

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement – A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories – stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone.

 

We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

 

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged, and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

 

If you would like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please email recruitment@atgentertainment.com for a confidential discussion.