Chief Financial Officer

Stevenage FC seek an enthusiastic, highly skilled and experienced CFO.

Based at our Stadium offices in Stevenage Herts and reporting to the Chairman and Board of Directors, this is an exciting position for a leader who wants to build something, not just manage it.

Stevenage FC is at an exciting stage of its journey. The CFO will be a key architect of the Club’s future, helping translate ambition into sustainable success — on the pitch, in the stands and on the balance sheet – in football as well as investments into related businesses.

The Chief Financial Officer will be a senior leader within Stevenage FC, responsible not only for financial stewardship and governance, but for building overall growth with high-performing teams, inspiring a growth mindset, and enabling the Club’s long-term sporting and commercial ambitions.

We seek a modern CFO: an exceptionally talented and experienced accountant, commercially astute, people-focused, strategically minded, and comfortable operating in the fast-moving, high-pressure environment of professional football and other Group businesses.

This position often requires additional working outside of normal office hours, at evenings, at weekends, on match days and on bank holidays/public holidays as required to meet the demands of the Clubs businesses.

Key Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and inspire the Club’s finance and administrative teams, creating a culture of accountability, ambition and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner to the Chairman and Board, providing clear, confident leadership on financial and operational decisions and being involved in key decision making.
• Act as an entrepreneurial partner to the Chairman in a variety of Family businesses.
• Align financial planning with on-pitch success, fan engagement and commercial expansion in all Clubs businesses.
• Build strong cross-departmental relationships.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic & Commercial

• Help shape and execute the Club’s medium and long-term strategy, including promotion ambitions, infrastructure investment and commercial growth.
• Evaluate and support investment opportunities, including ownership structures, external funding, and partnerships.
• Drive improved commercial performance, working closely with commercial and marketing teams on pricing, fan engagement and revenue growth
• Support football operations with robust financial modelling, including playing budgets, recruitment strategy and wage management.

Financial Management & Governance

• Working with the Head of Accounting, full responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with EFL regulations, SCMP, financial fair play rules, and statutory requirements.
• Lead the annual audit process and manage relationships with external advisors, auditors and regulators.
• Establish clear financial controls while maintaining agility appropriate to a competitive football environment.

• Oversee key operational functions linked to finance, including payroll, procurement and systems.

Key personal points

Essential

• 5+ years senior financial leadership experience, ideally within sport, entertainment, or another fast-paced, consumer-facing business.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams, not just manage them.
• Strong commercial instinct and strategic thinking capability.
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence at Board level and engage across the organisation.
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Desirable

• Experience in professional football or a regulated sporting environment.
• Experience working with investors, private equity, or owner-managed businesses.
• Understanding of EFL financial regulations and football governance (or the appetite and speed to master them).

Personal Attributes

• Inspirational, personable, credible and calm under pressure.
• Collaborative and people-centric leadership style.
• Commercially curious with a bias toward action.
• Comfortable balancing ambition with financial discipline.
• Passion for sport and belief in football as a growth business, not just a cost centre.

Stevenage Football Club has continued to make waves in the world of football since its formation in 1976.

The club was formed as Stevenage Borough following the bankruptcy of Stevenage Athletic and after spending the first decade and a half of the clubs history moving up and down the Isthmian League's, promotion to the Football Conference was finally confirmed in 1994.

Despite winning the league just two seasons later, inadequate ground facilities meant promotion was denied. 14 years later, justice was finally served as a record breaking Conference title winning campaign saw the club become a Football League side for the first time in the club's history in 2010.

Promotion to League One soon followed where the club spent three seasons in the third tier of English Football before re-joining League Two in 2014.