Head of Finance, Shotgun
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Ticketing solution for live music
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Ticketing solution for live music
21-100 employees
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More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way party planners and party lovers interact.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5 to 10 years of experience in finance (preferably in consulting or controlling), ideally in a fast growing, international startup environment
- You have a proven track record driving high-performing teams and successfully delivering complex projects
- You are curious, open-minded, and willing to challenge the status quo
- You are good at prioritizing and multitasking
- You are a master of Excel and Powerpoint, but you also leverage modern tools and AI to optimize financial processes - you want to work smarter, not harder
- You are fluent in English and French, and you thrive in a multi-cultural environment
- You are passionate about entertainment: it doesn't matter which industry, but entertaining people makes you happy: music, gaming, events
What the job involves
- The Head of Finance drive Shotgun’s growth by unlocking new opportunities across products and markets, maximizing the impact of every investment, and empowering informed decision making through clear, actionable financial insights
- Support the launch of new products or countries by providing finance & legal support
- Identify and secure non-dilutive financing (subsidies, loans, tax credits…) to fuel our development
- Collaborate with company leadership on fundraising initiatives
- Harmonize accounting & reporting between our different legal entities
- Implement monthly cut-off procedures
- Streamline the preparation of our monthly financial reporting
- Ensure financial data systems support comprehensive business monitoring and decision-making
- Drive a budget culture with monthly and quarterly reviews alongside cost center owners
- Improve the accuracy of our monthly cash forecast
- Develop and maintain a robust business plan aligned with corporate strategy
- Lead Finance operations across all geographies, including legal, payroll and financial tooling
- Build strong partnerships with external advisors (payroll, accounting, tax…) and service providers (banking, insurance, …)
- Oversee the preparation of our annual financial statements
- Design and enforce appropriate internal controls across all functions and regions to ensure compliance and accountability
- Serve as the go-to expert and leader for all finance-related matters within the company
- Manage, structure, train and expand the Finance team in alignment with the Company’s evolving needs (current team includes a Financial Controller, a Tax & Compliance Manager, and an International Operations Associate)
- Define the Finance projects roadmap in sync with company OKR, ensuring timely and effective execution
- Foster a strong financial culture throughout our organization
Application process
- Screening call
- Discovery meeting with two team members (1 hour)
- Meeting with our COO (1 hour)
- Live case study (1 hour)
- Fit interview with two team leaders (1 hour)
Our take
If you're organising an event, there's no shortage of ticket companies offering to manage booking and boost sales. However, the industry overall is somewhat outdated, with complicated interfaces putting off both organisers and customers. Founded in 2014, Shotgun is an attempt to redress this with intuitive software and a ticketing marketplace that meets the changing needs of modern event organisers and their fans.
Competing against larger players such as Dice and Resident Advisor, Shotgun stands out with its laser focus on the 18-25 year old event-going market. Catering to a crowd used to on-demand music services with expectations of lower costs and more exciting shows (research shows younger event-goers are far more likely to leave early if they're unhappy), Shotgun has invested heavily in social features and its mobile app experience to keep fans engaged.
So far, it has experienced success - it quickly gained several hundred organisers in about 30 cities for its platform and it is continuing to grow, with over 100,000 regular users of its app. As other ticketing services struggle to capture the younger party crowd, Shotgun has an early lead in this space that it should be able to continue to build on.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$5.2m
SERIES A
Feb 2020
$2.1m
SEED
Total funding: $8.4m
Company HQ
Folie-Méricourt, Paris, France
Leadership
Lucas Gerard
(Co-founder & CTO)Was also Co-Founder & CTO of YesPark. Before that was the Head of Technical Development at Ikky.
Romain Dugier
(Co-founder)Was previously a Marketing Assistant for Eurocopter and Chateau La Coste. Also interned at L'Oréal and Dragon Rouge.
Tristan Le Corre
(Co-founder)Before co-founding Shotgun was a VC at Science in Santa Monica. Before that held roles at PAI Partners, Société Générale and PwC.
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