Company Overview

Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys. Through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today's on-demand culture, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world's biggest sporting events.

About the Team

At Fanatics, we know that numbers are not just for jerseys. Our accounting and finance professionals are charged with taking a highly analytical approach towards financial data across every part of our business. We identify financial successes and opportunities, and then create detailed growth plans to reach and exceed our company goals. We bring numbers to life by developing innovative and strategic reporting as well as actionable insights for key stakeholders and executive leadership. Just as Fanatics continues to rapidly grow, we encourage our team members to do the same by supporting continued education and offering internal career advancement in various areas of Accounting and Finance.

The Director of Strategic Finance will serve as a key member of the corporate financial leadership team, with ownership of the long-term financial model, performance management, operational KPIs, and financial analytics across the organization. This position reports to the VP of FP&A. 

Responsibilities:

• Primary ownership of reporting of the long-term financial model, including target setting, structuring, maintenance and expansion for segments, reporting, data, etc.
• Develop corporate performance management, demonstrating exceptional leadership and collaborative capabilities across the organization in driving executive alignment, establishing timelines and calendars, gathering requirements and data across segments and stakeholders, creating standardized data packages and enabling insightful and action-oriented quarterly business reviews
• Selecting, establishing, maintaining and tracking operational KPIs to enable performance management, and creating alignment with the long-term financial model
• Ownership of total company consolidated sales and metrics reporting across business units, including establishing cross-functional metrics definitions and building / automating executive dashboards
• Establishing priorities and vision for financial business analytics, with analyses including but not limited to product profitability, league profitability, LTV/CAC, growth investments, pricing analysis, price/volume/mix analysis, customer/product/league/merch type analysis, supply chain analysis, manufacturing analysis, new/repeat customer analysis, etc.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with presentations to senior management, with extraordinary detail orientation and strong data visualization skills
• Deep experience with financial modeling, data manipulation and analytics
• Expert skills with Microsoft Excel
• Adaptability and innovation with an eye for developing processes that align across multiple groups and stakeholders
• 10+ years of finance management experience with progressively increasing responsibilities; public, multinational company experience preferred
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or other relevant field

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS: In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information.  We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies.