About Shotgun

Shotgun is a leading platform dedicated to empowering live music event organizers and touring artists, driving the future of the live music industry. Our mission is to build the infrastructure that enables live music to thrive. We provide powerful tools to sell tickets, build strong brands, and connect with fans in meaningful ways. 

From 2020 to 2024, Shotgun achieved rapid growth with GMV increasing 20x and revenue growing 30x - leading the company to profitability. Today, we support over 6,000 clients and engage more than 6,000,000 users across Europe, the US, and LATAM. 

Our exponential growth rests on two core pillars:

The Best Product in the Industry

We shipped many game-changing B2B features in the past 3 years, continually innovating to help change the live music ecosystem.

A Committed Go-to-Market Team

Our team of industry experts is deeply passionate and relentlessly focused on delivering value to our clients and partners

In the past seven years, Shotgun has raised €10M from Newfund, Venrex, One RagTime, Creator Collective, and BPI Culture Fund. We are a lean and dynamic team of 80 people, with offices in Paris, Miami, São Paulo, Lisbon, and Marseille.

Our culture is built on passion, commitment, ownership, and humility.

For French speakers, you can learn more about our journey by listening to We Are Sales, a podcast featuring our CEO, Tristan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapqLSLz0O4

👩💻👨 Mission

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.

🔨What you will do

🚀Financing & Business Development

• 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

📊FP&A

• 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

🧮 Accounting & Controlling

• 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

🧑‍💼Management

• 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

💡 The job is made for you if...

• 🕐 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,...

This role is primarily based in Paris and will involve frequent in-person meetings and travel.

✨ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment

At Shotgun, we are committed to empowering a new generation through events and fostering a culture of inclusion. We recognize that inequality harms our company, our partners, and the communities we serve. Therefore, we stand united for equality and equity.

Shotgun is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities for all individuals, regardless of any protected characteristic. This includes, but is not limited to, race, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, or protected veteran status. We do not discriminate against individuals based on disability.

We are committed to maintaining an inclusive workplace where team members can excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.

🤩 Perks

🌎 Hybrid remote: we are flexible and remote work will be possible, however you will be expected to spend most of your time at one of our offices

✈️ Team off-sites and team moments: we organize a lot of team moments at Shotgun, because our team is precious to us!

🕺 Shotgun events vouchers: you will receive shotgun credits every quarter

🏋️‍♀️ Gymlib: you will get preferential rates for various physical activities

🌱 Sustainability mobility bonus: to encourage the use of sustainable transportation, we offer a contribution if you use a personal bike to commute

🍔 Swile Lunch Card: Lunch card and much more: https://www.swile.co/

💊 Alan Health Insurance: We got you covered with Alan

👶 Childcare

🔃 Hiring Process

We like to move fast but want to give you a chance to meet as much team members as possible:

• Screening call
• Discovery meeting with two team members (1 hour)
• Take-home case study
• Meeting with our COO (1 hour)
• Fit interview with two team leaders (1 hour)