Federations & Governing Bodies
Senior Financial Analyst, WNBA Team Finance
Mid Level
New York, United States
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Senior Financial Analyst coordinates financial reporting and analytics for WNBA teams and supports WNBA Team Finance, which acts as a point of contact to team financial representatives. The role involves reviewing team projections, supporting team audit processes, analysing teams' financial performance, assisting with union reporting and Team GAAP audits, and delivering other key outputs across the annual business cycle. The analyst also creates ad hoc financial analyses and presents insights to WNBA Finance leadership, coordinating across departments.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with the team audit process, acting as a liaison between team financial representatives and external auditors.
- Collect team projections, vet the information, perform variance analysis and ensure reporting consistency among the teams.
- Research and prepare all necessary financial analyses for key critical audit matters, including final summary and recommendations presented to WNBA Finance Leadership and Legal Departments.
- Research accounting guidance as necessary to assist teams.
- Serve as an active participant during team meetings, inquiring about key issues identified during the vetting process.
- Run benchmarking analyses on teams' projection submissions and provide insights to team and league personnel.
- Serve as contact for various league deliverables such as team billing requisitions and communications to teams.
- Collaborate with WNBA Team Finance on team projection review and other team deliverables.
- Lead process improvement and AI initiatives to help drive efficiency with routine tasks.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related field.
- CPA required.
- Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in public accounting.
- Strong competency in core professional skills, including attention to detail, resourcefulness, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative and follow-through.
- Ability to lead interactions such as projection review calls and ad hoc inquiries with team finance representatives and external auditors.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to spot and resolve issues.
- Ability to multi-task while meeting strict deadlines.
- Proficiency in Excel, including Index/Match and V-Lookups, plus PowerPoint and other Office/computer systems.
- Proactive, self-starter able to work independently within set objectives.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
Preferred Skills
- Excel macros knowledge.
- Experience with leveraging AI tools.
Workplace
- The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.
Benefits & Perks
- 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 and vision insurance.
- Life/AD&D insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Fertility and family-forming assistance.
- Wellbeing allowance.
- Educational assistance.
- Mental health coaching/therapy.
- Tax-advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Time off benefits including vacation, sick time and personal days.
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