Financial Analyst, WNBA Team Finance

This role coordinates financial reporting and analytics related to WNBA teams and supports WNBA Team Finance, which serves as the central point of contact to team financial representatives. It involves reviewing team projections, supporting team audit processes, analysing teams' financial performance, assisting with ticket and union reporting, and delivering other key outputs during the annual business cycle. The position works with team and league personnel and external auditors.

• Collect team projections, vet the information, perform variance analysis, and ensure reporting consistency among the teams.
• Run benchmarking analyses on teams' projection submissions and provide insights to team and league personnel.
• Assist with ticket reporting for team and league distribution on a weekly basis and review reporting for compliance with requirements.
• Serve as a contact for various league deliverables such as team billing requisitions and communications to teams.
• Assist with the team audit process, acting as a liaison between team financial representatives and external auditors.
• Research accounting guidance as necessary to assist teams.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in public accounting, financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or another strategic finance role.
• Strong competency in core professional skills including attention to detail, resourcefulness, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, and follow-through.
• Effective communicator able to work with team financial personnel and external auditors.
• Ability to multi-task while meeting strict deadlines.
• Proficiency in Excel, including Index/Match and V-Lookups, and in PowerPoint and other Office/computer systems.
• Comfort working with large data sets and creating executive-level summaries and trend reports.
• Prior experience working with and managing data sets, including extraction and merges from source systems, transformation, and providing preliminary descriptive analytics.

• CPA preferred, not required.
• Macro knowledge in Excel is a plus.
• Experience with leveraging AI tools and SAP is a plus.

• The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.

• Annual discretionary performance bonus, awarded at the sole discretion of the Company and subject to any terms and conditions set by the Company.
• Medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Fertility and family-forming assistance, wellbeing allowance, educational assistance, mental health coaching/therapy, and tax-advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs.
• 401(k) retirement plan and time off benefits including vacation, sick time, and personal days.