Location
ATG Productions, Duke of York’s Theatre, London. Primarily based at The Tom Stoppard Theatre with occasional time at ATG commercial finance team offices (115 Shaftesbury Avenue) and financial reporting team in Woking (Alexander House, Church Path).

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Finance Director – ATG Productions is a key member of the Leadership Team, responsible for driving the success and strategic direction of ATG Productions through insightful financial reporting, analysis, and decision support. Reporting to the Senior Producer with a dotted line to the Group CFO, this role manages the Assistant Accountant and collaborates closely with internal and external finance teams.

Key responsibilities include overseeing financial management and business partnering for ATG Productions, delivering budgets, forecasts, cash flow, and strategic plans aligned with Group requirements. The role involves modelling and analysing business opportunities, reviewing monthly management accounts, and ensuring accurate financial results for group reporting.

The Finance Director owns and improves finance processes, maintains financial controls, and defines reporting templates and KPIs to ensure timely, consistent, and decision-ready information. Leadership duties include managing and developing the Assistant Accountant, enhancing financial acumen across the department, and liaising with outsourced Production Accounting and ATG’s UK and international finance teams.

In theatrical productions, the role reviews production budgets, leads Production Investment Committee documentation, monitors financial performance, manages production accounts closure, advises on tax implications, and prepares statutory accounts and corporation tax workings. The Finance Director also drives investment strategy and management reporting on investments held.

In group reporting, the role collaborates with Group Finance on audit deliverables, prepares production consolidations for group accounts, and responds to ad hoc stakeholder requests.

ATG Productions is the award-winning producing and general management arm of ATG Entertainment, dedicated to producing critically acclaimed and commercially successful theatre for the West End, Broadway, and beyond.

Experience
Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA or equivalent). Practice-trained with experience in a similar role or relevant industry knowledge is advantageous. Proven ability to manage financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and business partnering.

Strong leadership experience, including managing and developing team members.

Experience working with production accounting and financial reporting in a complex environment is desirable.

About you
Excellent attention to detail, well organised and process driven.
Enthusiastic and adaptable with a keen eye for identifying improvements and personal growth opportunities.
Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Collaborative working style.
Ambitious, positive, tenacious, and eager to learn.
A genuine passion for theatre.
Advanced Excel and IT skills.

Qualifications
Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA or equivalent) is essential.