Event Budget Manager

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Job Description

Description

Wasserman is a global leader in sports, music, entertainment and culture. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world's most iconic sports and entertainment figures, musical artists, creators, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide.

Wasserman works with iconic sports and media figures across the world in every major sport, utilizing our extensive influence to maximize negotiations and create meaningful opportunities for our clients across teams, leagues, brands, content and live events.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman operates globally across 27 countries and more than 62 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.

We are currently looking for an Event Budget Manager to join the Wasserman Boxing Team in London. This role is responsible for supporting the EVP, Managing Executives & Head of Commercial of Global Boxing in ensuring a smooth and efficient operated division through every-day processes, practices, and requirements. Working closing with the Boxing UK Finance team.

Key Responsibilities;

• Create and maintain tracker for all Boxing promotional agreements
• Ensure Boxing team expense claims are processed correctly and in line with cardholder and company policy
• Submit customer invoice requests to Finance team for processing, ensuring all contractual support and purchase order information provided
• Attend debtors review meetings with Finance team and ensure actions items are undertaken as appropriate by the Boxing team
• Build-out event budgets before events and forecast various scenarios with robust assumptions
• Work with Finance team to finalise event budgets, ensuring all internal approvals obtained in line with agreed processes and procedures
• Track event costs vs event budgets ensuring operational team maintain spend within approved parameters and escalate any potential variances to budget or impacts on event profitability
• Manage JV partners in relation to event spend and ensure spend does not exceeded approved budgets
• Maintain ticket sales reports in the build up to events, providing regular reporting to leadership of sales status
• Maintain event cash list as required including per diems
• Ensure all fighter and supplier contracts are in place for each event
• Work with Finance team to ensure accurate receipt of information, invoices and bank information for fighter purses and ensure payments made in line with contractual terms
• Manage event cash procedures in line with company policy including cash counting, handling and receipts
• Provide Finance team with inputs and industry knowledge for Boxer signings/valuation modelling

Requirements

• Ability to analyse financial data and prepare financial budgets in a clear and insightful manner to non-finance as well as finance users
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications specifically with Excel. Ideally Pivot tables & VLOOKUPs
• Experience of working on own initiative and as a member of a closely-knit team in an agile environment, organising and prioritising own work while multi-tasking

Benefits

• Annual Discretionary Bonus
• 25 days per annum plus UK bank holidays, and additional DE&I days
• Hybrid Working
• Pension: 4.5% employee // employer contribution with Aviva
• Income Protection: Pays you 75% of your base salary in the event that you are absent from work due to illness or injury for 13 consecutive weeks or more, capped at 5 years
• Life Assurance: Pays your nominated beneficiary four times your base salary in the event of your death whilst employed by the Company
• Employee Assistance Programme (Wellbeing support for you and family living with you // free legal and financial advice, including telephone and potentially in person counselling)
• Season Ticket Loan

Optional benefits (post probation)

• Health Cash back plan which provides you with reimbursements for everyday medical costs including dental, optical, prescriptions & physical therapies
• Season Ticket Loan: An interest free loan for the purpose of purchasing an annual season ticket for travel between home and work
• Cycle to work scheme: A one year hire agreement for a cycle and accessories worth up to 2,000, done via salary sacrifice with an option to purchase cycle at the end of the agreement
• Gym Flex: An interest free loan for the purpose of purchasing an annual Gym membership, providing a low corporate discounts at over 3,700 gyms, studios and outdoor fitness events

Wasserman does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.