Finance Manager - Finance Control
About this role
Finance Manager - Finance Control
Department: 25-761 - Finance - Corporate Finance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - Leeds
Description
This will be based in our Leeds office (White Rose), mostly on site.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Own and improve processes and systems that ensure revenue and costs are reported and accounted for accurately across DAZN’s global portfolio, driving revenue and cost assurance.
- Oversee key revenue and cost controls to maintain a rigorous and compliant financial control environment.
- Identify revenue leakage and opportunities for cost savings.
- Own revenue and cost elements of the month-end close, ensuring journals, accruals and reporting are completed accurately and to deadline each period.
- Direct and review the work of our SSC and cost teams to deliver timely, accurate and comprehensive management and statutory accounts.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations for revenue and cost accounts, ensuring balances are understood, substantiated and free from risk.
- Ensure revenue and costs are recognised correctly in line with the relevant accounting standards (for e.g. IFRS 15), acting as a point of reference for technical accounting questions in your area.
- Ensure all BAU processes are meticulously documented to identify potential financial risks.
- Participate in various project initiatives to optimise existing finance workflows and processes.
- Act as a key point of contact for the annual external audit of revenue and costs, providing the support and documentation needed to ensure a smooth and successful process.
- Collaborate with various departments on new commercial initiatives, defining finance requirements and ensuring these are successfully transitioned to Finance BAU.
What You'll Bring:
- Qualified accountant accreditation (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / ICAS or international equivalent).
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, including revenue recognition (IFRS 15), and international standards on auditing.
- Excellent Excel skills and proven ability to conduct detailed analysis using large data sets.
- Experience in finance, gained in practice or industry (a background in audit or financial control is an advantage), with strong analytical and project-management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder-management skills;
- Business-level fluency in English.
- Experience working with global/remote teams.
Benefits
Company at a glance
We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.
We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.
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.
For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, that’s fine. 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. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.
If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Top Benefits
- Access to DAZN
- 25 Days Annual Leave
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Pension Contributions Up to 5%
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Electric Vehicle Benefit Option
- Learning And Development Resources
- Flexible Working Opportunity
- Internal Speaker Series And Events
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