Finance Manager

Why Join DAZN? 

Be part of a finance team driving the growth of one of the world’s leading sports streaming platforms.  At DAZN, finance sits at the centre of strategic decision making – powering how we invest, price and expansion globally.  As Finance Manager, you’ll drive financial performance, deliver data-driven insight, and work closely with senior leadership to shape the business.  It’s a role for someone who thrives in a high-growth, fast-paced environment – where commercial acumen, innovation and financial rigour go hand-in-hand. 

The Role 

You’ll oversee financial planning, analysis, and reporting processes across your business area or market. You’ll act as a key business partner, offering strategic and operational financial support, managing budgets and forecasts, and driving efficiency and performance. You will also lead finance transformation initiatives, ensuring robust controls and value-added insight. This is a high-visibility role with scope to shape decisions and influence outcomes. 

We are hiring two Finance Manager roles to manage either our Boxing or Commercial Premises business units. 

Department

21-398 - Commercial Finance - Markets

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Act as the lead commercial finance partner to senior business stakeholders 
• Drive financial performance of the vertical across revenue, margin, costs and investment 
• Build and challenge quarterly forecasts and annual budgets in partnership with Content, Distribution, Marketing and Commercial teams 
• Provide financial insight and scenario analysis to support commercial negotiations, platform deals, rights decisions and pricing/promotional strategy 
• Prepare monthly financial reviews, variance analysis and commentary for regional and central stakeholders 
• Build board-ready materials and articulate drivers, risks and levers clearly and succinctly 
• Work with FP&A teams to ensure robust investment cases and consistent financial standards 
• Identify risks, opportunities and trade-offs relative to plan, and support decision-making that preserves long-term economics 
• Contribute to governance, controls and finance process improvements across the business unit
• Run core month-end responsibilities for the business unit (e.g. review of accruals and balance sheet checks) to ensure integrity of reported performance 

What You'll Bring:

• Qualified or equivalent finance professional experience, with experience in commercial finance / business partnering 
• Accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA or CIMA) 
• Strong financial modelling and scenario analysis skills, with the ability to translate numbers into actionable business language for non-finance stakeholders 
• Excellent analytical and financial modelling capabilities 
• Experience supporting cross-functional stakeholders and executive teams 
• Proficiency with finance systems and BI tools 
• Strong communication and presentation skills 

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, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), 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.