Finance Manager

The LTA’s vision is “Tennis Opened Up” and its mission is to make tennis Relevant, Accessible, Welcoming and Enjoyable for all.

The role of the Finance Department is to ensure the business prioritises its spending on the projects and programmes that deliver the maximum benefit to our customers – whether that is performance programmes for elite players or children playing their first game of mini-tennis.

The Finance Manager role itself is one of the two manager roles in Group Finance, which will report into the Head of Group Finance.

This position will have a broad range of accountabilities including but not limited to responsibility for treasury management of all LTA Group entities, foreign exchange, complex operational cash flow forecasting, loan book cash projections, day-to-day banking activity oversight, in-house banking facility(/facilities) expert, and monitoring of financial and regulatory compliance where relevant. The role will also be responsible for management of the accounts payable and receivable transactional team, the LTA’s insurance programme, and providing ad hoc project accounting support. This list is not exhaustive and will evolve over time. The Finance Manager will also play a key role in pro-actively identifying opportunities for, and driving the continuous development of, the Finance function through various projects and initiatives.

The role as Finance Manager is in essence about driving effective decision making, typically through best-in-class financial and risk planning. You will seek out opportunities to minimise cost while examining benefits and payback where appropriate, seek efficiency wherever possible, and drive value by ensuring activity is aligned to business strategy. You will have a pro-active approach and seek to be involved at the outset of all key projects to help enable effective conversations with senior management.

In respect of the output of this role, you will secure buy-in across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups including the Executive and Leadership Teams through your influencing skills, routinely measure against these benchmarks, forecasts, and prior year comparisons, and seek to issue reports and maintain files that are consistently accurate. You will develop risk management strategies, taking pride in being able to not only understand the “what” but also the “why”. You will be a storyteller able to simplify the complex when communicating to senior audiences including members of the LTA Board, the LTA Audit Committee, and the trustees of the LTA Tennis Foundation.

1st stage interviews week commencing 17th July 2023