Director, Accounting Shared Services

Company Overview

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Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.

Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hard goods;

collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform.

Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, player associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.

As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices.

We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners, and fans.

Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

Objectives of the role :

Must be a forward-looking, visionary leader with business experience in increasingly complex businesses, across geographies and business channels.

Ability to translate vision to operational plans.

• Commitment and ability to create and help scale department to the next level.
• Work effectively in a high-growth environment comfortable in both individual contributor roles and cross-functional team management roles, depending on what is required by the business at the time.
• Demonstrate strong business and technical accounting acumen, sufficient to gain credibility and trust with business partners, peers, and teams.
• Must be an experienced, collaborative accounting professional with the background and interpersonal skills sufficient to function successfully in a growth-enabling and challenging position.
• Provide financial leadership by managing the general accounting, cash, payroll, and T&E activities of the organization to ensure accurate and timely compliance with all internal and external reporting requirements.
• Demonstrates commitment to attracting, developing, and mentoring accounting staff to build their professional career and maximize potential.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering a culture of continuous improvement mind-set and leading change within the department.
• Must demonstrate the ability to implement new concepts, ideas, processes, and remediate Sox deficiencies as needed.
• Must have the ability to embrace and assume ownership of various processes and reports.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, superior organizational and project management skills, and exceptional communication skills.

Key Responsibilities :

A key member of the Fanatics Accounting Shared Services Record To Report team, this position is responsible for supervising the recording of transactions and reconciliations related to cash, general accounting, and payroll for all of Fanatics lines of business.

This position has 3 direct reports with an overall team of 11.

• Monthly, reviewing FloQast to ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are properly assigned, prepared timely and properly prepared with sufficient supporting detail.
• Ensures the general accounting team adheres to the monthly closing calendar deadlines.
• Responsible for month-end journal entry approvals; balance sheet reconciliation review and approval as well as assigned balance sheet reconciliations.
• Oversees the monthly accounting activities for the two not-for-profit Fanatics foundations; serve as the primary point of contact for accounting matters to the Executive Director of the foundations, and serve as audit liaison with external accounting firm on annual audits.
• Review and coordinate internal and external audit requests including interim testing as well as year-end PBC’s.
• Prepare SOP’s as needed with continuous monitoring that the documents are kept current.
• Ensures Sox financial controls in place are operating effectively and makes improvements where needed; recognizes if procedures are not followed and takes corrective action.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to maintain a strong internal control environment overall financial transactions and processes, and regularly monitor and assess risks.
• Demonstrate technical expertise and business acumen in the application of GAAP.
• Closely monitor the productivity of accounting staff to ensure targets are met, develops appropriate key performance measurements, and provides the necessary coaching, development, and training support to ensure the accounting team is actively engaged and operating at a high-performance level.
• Build bench strength, develop talent, and prepare the organization for long-term growth (scale-up).
• Blend of public accounting experience a plus or relevant industry experience.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related field required; advanced degree in accounting or finance a plus.
• CPA designation a major plus.
• 8+ years’ accounting experience leading an accounting team with a combination of public and private accounting background.
• Solid foundation in GAAP, previous experience in accounting / audit / finance experience very desirable.
• Has a passion for problem solving; must be able to quickly process fact patterns, draw a conclusion and take action.
• Exceptionally organized, but with the capacity to pivot as business needs arise. Must be an excellent communicator with the ability to provide clear instruction, direction and expectations.
• Excellent customer service skills with the ability to work with multiple departments, at all levels of the organization.
• Naturally inquisitive, curious in seeking out information for understanding and decision making.
• Strong attention to detail with high degree of accuracy while working in a very fast-paced environment.
• Highly skilled at manipulating large volumes of transactions; an expert in balance sheet reconciliation process and review.
• Broad work experience across multiple industries with knowledge of best practices related to general accounting, cash and payroll.
• Not-for-profit accounting experience with audits is highly desirable.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel experience in Pivot Tables and VLookups are a plus.
• Oracle Fusion, FloQast, Concur experience a plus.

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