Finance Manager - Finance Control

Join our Group Finance Control team as our new Finance Manager! You'll own and improve processes and systems that ensure revenue and costs are reported and accounted for accurately across DAZN’s global portfolio, supporting both management and statutory reporting. 

Working as a consultative business partner to the in-market Commercial Finance teams and the wider business, you'll drive revenue and cost accounting and assurance, maintain a rigorous and compliant control environment, ensure revenue and costs are recognised correctly in line with the relevant accounting standards, and support confident decision-making across Finance and the commercial business as the group continues to scale globally. 

A key part of this role is working closely with our Shared Service Centre. Directing and reviewing the relevant work of the SSC revenue and cost teams, setting the standard for accurate, timely management and statutory reporting and holding them to account for delivering it. 

This will be based in our Leeds office (White Rose), mostly on site.

Department

25-761 - Finance - Corporate Finance

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

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

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

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. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. 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, please feel free to. 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, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.