VP, Finance

Topgolf is a sports entertainment company that has changed how millions of people experience golf — and a genuinely energizing place to build a career. Every year, guests pack our venues for something that is hard to find elsewhere: hitting balls at a target-lined outfield, watching their shot traced in real time on multiple screens, with great food and good company alongside.

With 100+ venues across the globe and proprietary Toptracer technology embedded in our guest experience and licensed to broadcasters and courses worldwide, Topgolf sits at a distinctive intersection: entertainment company, technology platform, and hospitality brand all at once. We are a scaled business with real complexity, real momentum, and meaningful opportunity to improve how we operate and grow.

This is not a back-office finance seat. It’s a front-row role at a company people actually know and genuinely enjoy — one where the work is meaningful, the stakes are real, and you’ll never struggle to explain what your company does at a dinner party.

This is not a traditional FP&A leadership role. We are hiring a VP of Finance to serve as the right hand to the CFO, with full visibility across the business and a mandate to drive performance, improve outcomes, and increase enterprise value in a fast-paced, private equity-backed environment.

This role sits at the center of how Topgolf plans, measures, and improves the business—from venue-level unit economics to enterprise-level capital allocation. You will lead Corporate FP&A, Venues FP&A, and Strategic Planning, and work directly with the CFO, CEO, Board, and sponsors to identify issues early, push for better decisions, and ensure we deliver results.

You will inherit a capable team and a strong foundation — and be expected to raise the bar on what Finance looks like as a business partner. The opportunity is significant. So are the expectations.

What’s different about this role:

• Direct partnership with the CFO on all major decisions
• Exposure to Board, lenders, and PE sponsors
• Ownership of how the business plans, executes, and improves performance
• A clear path to a future CFO role for the right leader

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Leads: Corporate FP&A, Venues & Toptracer FP&A, and Strategic Planning (combined team of ~15)

Location: Dallas, TX (in office 5 days a week)

1.  Drive Financial Performance & Value Creation

• Own the company’s 3-statement financial model, forecasts, annual operating plans and long-range plan
• Lead planning and forecasting with a focus on accuracy, speed, and accountability
• Identify gaps to our annual operating plan early and drive actions to close them
• Translate performance into clear implications and required actions, not just reporting
• Lead cross-functional efforts to improve Adj. EBITDA, cash flow, and returns

2.  Lead the Finance Across the Business

You will oversee three core teams with distinct but interconnected mandates:

Venues & Toptracer FP&A

• Own unit economics (sales, labor, COGS, operating expenses)
• Partner directly with operations to improve performance and drive accountability
• Evaluate and scale initiatives that improve revenue growth and margins
• Ensure field leaders have clear visibility into what is working and what needs to change

Corporate FP&A

• Lead consolidations, overhead planning, capital allocation, and cash flow forecasting
• Drive discipline around headcount governance and SG&A efficiency
• Ensure capital is deployed against highest-return opportunities
• Maintain a clear view of financial health, liquidity, and returns

Strategic Planning

• Own Board materials and strategic framing of the business
• Lead high-impact initiatives and business cases (growth, transformation, cost optimization)
• Ensure alignment between strategy, financial plans, and execution
• Drive focus on the highest-value priorities across the organization

3.  Operate in a PE-Backed Environment

• Lead monthly and quarterly cadence with PE sponsors and lenders
• Anticipate what matters most: cash, leverage, downside risk, and optionality
• Ensure the business is operating with discipline, urgency, and transparency
• Support refinancing, M&A, and strategic transactions as needed
• Bring structure and rigor without slowing the business down

4.  Lead Strategic Finance & Capital Allocation

• Evaluate investments & resource allocations with a clear ROI and cash lens
• Build and pressure-test investment and divestiture cases
• Partner cross-functionally to improve decisions and outcomes
• Ensure trade-offs are explicit and decisions are aligned to enterprise value creation

5.  Build a High-Performance Finance Organization

• Raise the bar on analytical rigor, decision support, and business partnership
• Leverage AI to increase automation & insight quality
• Improve how Finance and Accounting work together (forecasting, close, reporting)
• Introduce structure and discipline without over-engineering
• Develop talent and build a bench of future finance leaders
• Drive a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

• Forecasts are accurate, actionable, and drive decisions
• Performance gaps are identified early and addressed with clear action plans
• Business drivers for Topgolf venues & Toptracer business are well understood and actively managed
• SG&A and capital allocation reflect clear priorities and return thresholds
• Leadership teams are aligned on what matters most and what needs to change
• Finance is a driver of performance and accountability, not a reporting function
• The company operates with PE-grade rigor and is positioned for future strategic options

Core Capabilities

• Deep expertise across Corporate FP&A and field/operational finance
• Strong command of 3-statement modeling, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Proven ability to deliver clear insights, implications, and actions at the Board level
• Strong experience with overhead planning, headcount governance, and capital allocation

PE / High-Rigor Environment

• Experience in a private equity-backed company or similar high-accountability environment
• Comfortable operating under tight timelines and high expectations
• Understands how investors think: cash flow, leverage, downside protection, and optionality
• Experience with refinancing, M&A, carve-outs, or exits is a strong plus

Strategic Finance & M&A

• Ability to independently lead investment analysis and strategic projects
• Experience building and evaluating business cases and transaction models
• Strong partnership with legal, tax, and external advisors

Executive Presence & Judgment

• Brings a clear point of view and strong judgment
• Communicates effectively with CEO, Board, and investors
• Willing to push back, surface risks early, and drive better decisions
• Thinks in terms of enterprise value creation, not functional optimization

Leadership & Mindset

• Operates with urgency, ownership, and high standards
• Highly detail-oriented with strong commitment to accuracy and quality
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• A builder who improves teams and processes without adding unnecessary complexity
• Leads from the front—drives outcomes, not just process

• 12+ years of progressive finance experience, with meaningful time in FP&A leadership roles
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
• Experience in hospitality, retail, restaurants, or entertainment industry
• Prior experience in a private equity-backed, multi-unit, or high-growth consumer/entertainment business preferred
• Demonstrated success leading and developing finance teams

Most finance leaders spend their careers working for companies that are hard to explain and easy to forget. This isn’t one of them.

• You will be the finance leader for one of the most recognized and genuinely loved entertainment brands in the world — a company where guests choose to celebrate birthdays, close deals, and spend their Friday nights
• Real scale, real complexity, and real upside: a multi-venue, multi-market business with technology assets, a growing international footprint, and a brand that commands attention
• A PE environment that demands rigor — and a culture that still knows how to have fun. Topgolf is backed by Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), a leading private equity firm with approximately $85 billion in assets under management across consumer, healthcare, business services, distribution, and industrial sectors
• Direct, meaningful exposure to senior leadership, Board, and investors from day one
• The opportunity to help build a best-in-class finance function — and leave it better than you found it

A role explicitly designed as a stepping-stone to CFO for the right leader, with the visibility and mandate to earn it

BENEFITS

Free Play & 1/2 price food! Health, dental, vision, 401(k) playmaker match, free mental well-being platform – and that’s just for starters for those who qualify. View playmaker benefits here.

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