Financial Analyst, WNBA Team Finance

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

Essential Functions and Job Summary

The Financial Analyst plays a key role in coordinating the financial reporting and analytics related to the WNBA teams and will support WNBA Team Finance, which serves as the central point of contact to team financial representatives. This person will assist in the reviewing Team Projections, the related team audit processes, perform analyses on the Teams' financial performance, assist with ticket and union reporting, and other key deliverables during the annual business cycle.

Major Responsibilities

• 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 valuable insights to team and league personnel.

• Assist with ticket reporting for team/league distribution on a weekly basis and review to ensure compliance with reporting requirements.

• Serve as 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.

Required Education/Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field
• CPA Preferred, not required
• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in public accounting, financial planning & analysis, corporate finance, or other strategic finance role

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes

• Strong competency in core professional skills including attention to detail, resourcefulness, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, and follow-through.

• Effective communicator to work with team financial personnel and external auditors.

• Ability to multi-task while meeting strict deadlines

• Must be very proficient in Excel (Index / Match, V-Lookups, and macros knowledge a big plus), PowerPoint, and other Office/computer systems.

• Must be comfortable 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.

• Experience with leveraging AI tools and SAP is a plus.

Salary Range:

$95,000-$110,000

Job Posting Title:
Associate Manager

Employees currently are eligible to receive an annual discretionary performance bonus, awarded at the sole discretion of the Company and subject to any terms and conditions set by the Company. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company-sponsored employee benefit programs: medical; dental; vision; life/AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; fertility and family-forming assistance; wellbeing allowance; educational assistance; mental health coaching/therapy; tax advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs; a 401(k) retirement plan; and time off benefits that include vacation, sick time, and personal days.