Head of Finance Platform and Control at Yoto in London

Job description

We're looking for a Head of Finance Platform and Control to join our Finance team to lead financial control, audit, tax, and operations - and redesign how they're delivered for an tech-enabled world. About Yoto Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots . Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000. Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth. Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50. Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020. We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing! We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it! Yoto’s Finance Team Our Finance team supports a fast-growing consumer business spanning hardware, content, subscriptions, royalties, and global operations. We move faster, build stronger relationships, and make better decisions when we're designed well. Right now, we're rebuilding finance for an AI-enabled world: not bolting AI onto existing processes, but redesigning those processes first, then automating them. Machines handle the processing. People handle the judgement. This role is what makes that shift happen properly. Finance at Yoto is ambitious to take advantage of the technology transformation opportunity. We have a Finance Operating Manifesto, a transformation roadmap spanning 100+ initiatives, a dedicated Platform Integrations team to partner with, and AI tools actively in use across the team. The momentum is real. This role shapes the direction and pace of what comes next, and builds the team that carries it forward. What you’ll be doing : This is a genuine leadership role. You'll lead a team spanning financial control, reporting and insights, finance operations, and royalties and revenue, plus close partnership with a platform engineer secondee driving the automation roadmap. You'll lead it like a product team, not a processing team; coaching people to move from doing the task to owning the standard, and developing the future controllers and systems designers this function will need as it scales. Own the full finance platform: month-end close, statutory audit, compliance, balance sheet integrity, intercompany, and reconciliations - and drive these towards an increasingly autonomous operating model Lead tax and treasury for the business, with no dedicated specialist beneath you - the judgement calls sit at this level Oversee AP/AR operations, including Tipalti, virtual card coding, and bank reconciliation, alongside royalties Design the controls framework as architecture embedded in workflows - ensuring audit-readiness is a consistent by-product of how the function operates, not a separate annual exercise Partner with the Platform Integrations team to define future-state processes, with them building and deploying automation against your designs Report directly into the CFO and carry board-level exposure on finance platform, audit, and transformation; partner closely with engineering and product teams to apply a product development approach to finance process design. What you’ll bring: A qualified accountant with demonstrable experience owning the