INACTIVE
Full-Time
FP&a Business Partner
Posted on 4/30/2024
DAZN
51-200 employees
Provides live sports streaming content
Consumer Goods
Mid
Hammersmith, London, UK
Required Skills
Communications
Requirements
- ACA or CIMA qualification
- Experience in group financial planning and analysis
- Strong knowledge of Excel
- Experience in producing financial reports for senior management
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in sports or media industry is desirable
- Financial modeling experience is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Own the weekly trading forecast process
- Support finance leads on planning cycles
- Foster strong relationships for effective communication
- Take P&L ownership for the Canada region
- Prepare and present monthly financial reviews
- Serve as the Finance owner on commercial contracts
Are you a driven and analytical ACA/CIMA qualified professional seeking your next challenge? Want to join a dynamic team reshaping the sports media landscape? Look no further than DAZN Finance! As a key member, you’ll provide vital financial planning and analysis support, collaborating closely with senior leaders to drive impactful decisions. Join us on our journey to redefine sports experiences worldwide!
In this hybrid role as FP&A Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in DAZN’s expansion. Based in our London office, you’ll support Group forecasting and planning while managing the financial performance of the Canadian region. Canada is a great market for DAZN, supported by premier sports rights like NFL, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and Bundesliga. This is your chance to merge analytical expertise with sports passion and lead industry transformation. Join DAZN Finance and shape the future of sports media!
The FP&A Manager element of the role is critical within DAZN Finance, focusing on providing financial planning and analysis support to the organization. The main responsibility is to ensure the company meets its financial targets through accurate forecasting, insightful analysis, and sound financial modelling.
But that’s just the beginning. As the primary finance partner for our Canadian management team, you’ll take on a pivotal role. Here, you’ll be instrumental in steering the region’s financial performance and guiding strategic decision-making across the entire P&L.
Our team is passionate about producing high-quality results, moving the business forward, and delivering exceptional work. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to supporting each other to reach our full potential. We believe in having fun while being firm and focused, taking ownership and responsibility for achieving our goals. Join our inclusive and dynamic team to learn, grow, and make a meaningful contribution to our shared success.
We’re really excited about this role and we think you’ll love it too. If you’re seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity to develop your skills and advance your career in a collaborative environment, then this could be the perfect fit for you.
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
As our new FP&A Business Partner, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Own the weekly trading forecast process, providing insights on business performance to the executive team and CEO.
- Support finance leads on planning cycles, offering high-quality reporting and strategic analysis to Senior Leadership and the CFO. Additionally, provide support on DAZNs Commercial Premises reporting.
- Foster strong relationships for effectively communicating complex business issues and ensuring timely delivery of outputs.
- Take P&L ownership for the Canada region, ensuring alignment with long-term plan parameters.
- Prepare and present monthly financial reviews for regional and central stakeholders in Canada, highlighting risks, opportunities, and insights.
- Serve as the Finance owner and regional expert on commercial contracts, distribution deals, and rights agreements in Canada.
You’ll have:
- Experience in group financial planning and analysis, with a focus on forecasting & budgeting. A track record of operating proactively in ambiguous and evolving situations with multiple stakeholders to deliver results against challenging deadlines.
- Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working within the Excel environment in a controlled and disciplined way
- Experience in producing financial reports and analysis for senior management and board members.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across the finance function and wider business.
- ACA or CIMA qualified, with relevant post qualification experience. Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience working in the sports or media industry would be desirable, as it demonstrates a strong understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in the field.
- Any best practice financial modelling experience would be a bonus
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team,you’ll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We’re doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We’re using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we’re not going to stop.
DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:
AMBITIOUS – people who want to make a big impact and drive DAZN forward.
INVENTIVE – people with bright ideas who deliver great new experiences for our customers – and improvements for our business. People who come up with better, simpler ways of doing things.
PASSIONATE – people who are proud of our product, our content and our business – and love to shout about it. People who love what they do and show commitment every day.
BRAVE – people who take difficult decisions to help us focus on improving DAZN, our performance and our results.
SUPPORTIVE – people who know that we achieve more as a team than as individuals. People value inclusion and look out for each other, helping their colleagues enjoy their work and develop their careers. People who consider others before making decisions.
At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
ELEVEN SPORTS HQ
Company Stage
M&A
Total Funding
$75.6M
Headquarters
Hammersmith, United Kingdom
Founded
2015
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -32%1 year growth
↓ -44%2 year growth
↓ -44%INACTIVE