Sport Tech & Data
FP&A Manager
Mid Level
London, United Kingdom
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
Joins Legend's Commercial Finance team as a key Finance Business Partner to the iGaming business. This is an individual contributor role with significant ownership and influence, working closely with the Principal FP&A Lead and partnering directly with the Head of iGaming and his leadership team. The role helps shape commercial decisions across a complex portfolio of products, markets and investments, going beyond reporting performance to understand drivers and recommend action.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to iGaming leadership, building a deep understanding of the business and using financial insight to challenge, influence and support commercial decision-making.
- Analyse the P&L alongside operational and commercial KPIs to identify underlying drivers of performance and recommend what the business should do next.
- Shape investment and commercial decisions by building financial models, business cases and scenario analysis to assess opportunities, trade-offs, risks and returns.
- Own and continuously improve forecasting and planning, bringing together financial, operational and commercial assumptions to create robust forecasts and constructively challenging the assumptions behind them.
- Proactively identify opportunities and risks, using data and business understanding to surface issues early, investigate root causes and drive conversations around potential actions.
- Influence through insight, presenting clear recommendations to senior finance and non-finance stakeholders and constructively challenging established thinking when data points to a different conclusion.
- Drive better decision-making across the Gaming business by partnering with Product, Commercial, Marketing and Data teams to connect financial performance with the operational decisions behind it.
- Raise the standard of FP&A by identifying opportunities to improve models, reporting, processes and use of data so Finance can spend less time producing information and more time influencing decisions.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- A fully qualified accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) alongside strong FP&A or Commercial Finance experience.
- Demonstrable experience operating as a Finance Business Partner, working with senior non-finance stakeholders and influencing commercial decisions.
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to move beyond explaining the numbers to developing a clear point of view and recommending a course of action.
- Examples of where analysis has directly influenced a decision, investment, change in direction or improvement in business performance.
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting and scenario-planning capability.
- Advanced Excel skills and the confidence to build and interrogate models independently.
- Strong understanding of P&L and EBITDA performance and the ability to connect financial outcomes with operational and commercial drivers.
- Confidence to constructively challenge senior stakeholders, test assumptions and ask difficult questions while building strong, trusted relationships.
- A proactive and curious approach, not waiting to be asked for analysis when an opportunity, risk or question is worth investigating.
- Ability to take complex financial and operational information and communicate the key message and recommendation clearly and concisely.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, commercially complex environment.
Preferred Skills
- Experience within iGaming, gaming, digital media, technology or another data-rich consumer business would be advantageous.
The Application Process
The interview process consists of four stages.
- Initial conversation with a Talent Partner (30 minutes via Zoom).
- Interview with the Principal FP&A Lead and People Experience Partner (60 minutes via Zoom).
- Take-home case study.
- Final interview with the Senior FP&A leadership team (60 minutes via Zoom).
About the Company
Legend is a world-leading sports and gaming media network, reaching hundreds of millions of visitors a year, and is now part of Genius Sports.
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