Group Commercial Finance Director

About the role

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Role..</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Group Commercial Finance Director is a new senior leadership role created as part of Soho House's Commercial Finance transformation, leading a dedicated commercial finance team covering the Group's commercial and strategic finance arrangements. The role owns debt and banking relationships, property, leases, insurance and commercial agreements, new site feasibility, and capital planning governance and reporting, together with finance business partnering to Soho Works, IHDB, Partnerships, Residences and the Group's other businesses.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working closely with Development, Legal, IHDB and Works, the Director plays a central role in Development, Capex and Ops Transformation forums, and will champion the use of AI-enabled analytics and automation to strengthen capital planning, feasibility and commercial decision-making, in line with the Group's wider ERP and AI transformation ambitions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities..</strong></span></p> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Treasury, Debt &amp; Banking Relationships</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own Group debt management, monitoring facilities and supporting refinancing initiatives as required.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manage banking facilities and relationships to support the Group's liquidity and funding needs.</span></li> </ul> <h4><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Property, Leases &amp; Commercial Agreements</span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own commercial and financial oversight of the Group's Leases across the portfolio.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead Property Management from a commercial finance perspective, ensuring costs, income and performance are effectively managed.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own JV &amp; HMA (Joint Venture &amp; House/Hotel Management Agreement) agreements, ensuring commercial terms are understood, managed and optimised.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own Key Contracts, providing financial oversight and commercial input into major agreements.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Insurance</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the Group's insurance programmes, working closely with the business to ensure appropriate coverage is in place across all risk areas.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead claims handling, ensuring claims are managed efficiently and effectively from notification through to resolution.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own Business Interruption (BI) and Contingent Business Interruption (CBI) claims, ensuring careful planning and preparation to support timely and accurate recovery.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide ongoing, day-to-day support to Operations on any claims and coverage matters, acting as a trusted point of contact for the business.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regularly review insurance programmes and coverage with the business to ensure they remain appropriate and adequate as the business evolves.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">New Site Feasibility</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own New Site Review &amp; Feasibility, leading financial appraisal and underwriting of new site opportunities to support the Group's expansion decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Critically review feasibility models, challenging inputs and assumptions (including revenue, cost, capex and return assumptions) to ensure recommendations are robust and well-evidenced.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure a clear understanding of the technical accounting impacts of new site decisions under GAAP (e.g., lease accounting, capitalisation and impairment considerations), working closely with technical accounting and reporting teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Present feasibility and underwriting recommendations to senior stakeholders, balancing commercial ambition with financial and accounting rigour.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Capital Planning &amp; Governance</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own Capital Planning governance across the Group, setting and maintaining policy to ensure consistent, disciplined investment decision-making.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead day-to-day management, review and reporting of Capital Planning, checking submissions and spend against Group policy and requirements.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Business Partnering</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Act as lead finance business partner to Soho Works.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Act as lead finance business partner to IHDB.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide commercial finance business partnering to Partnerships, Residences and Other Businesses (Line Group).</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">AI-Enabled Commercial Finance</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12p