Manager, Revenue Accounting Operations

Overview 

As a Manager, Revenue Accounting Operations at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are here to join our high-energy Accounting and Finance team. The Manager of Revenue Accounting Operations plays a critical role in executing and scaling revenue accounting operations, ensuring accurate close, strong controls, and audit readiness within the Accounting and Finance Department reporting to the Senior Manager, Revenue. This role has direct ownership of key revenue accounting processes, including monthly close execution, review controls, and audit coordination within a complex, highly regulated, and data-intensive environment. Our successful candidate must be a collaborative accounting professional with the background and interpersonal skills to function successfully in a high growth and fast-paced environment with excellent skills around prioritization, collaboration and influencing. Ideally, our candidate is comfortable and effective in a rapidly changing environment and will partner closely with the leaders of data, tax, treasury, legal, and FP&A, as well as a broad group of cross-functional business teams in order to provide guidance, and support well informed decisions. Our candidate will be expected to identify and resolve issues, while exercising good business judgment and risk management. This role requires strong communication skills to effectively facilitate information flow between business functions and Accounting and Finance, and to partner with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the monthly revenue close process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
• Review and oversee revenue share calculations, account reconciliations, and AR matching results
• Develop processes for the preparation and recording of required journal entries for certain processes
• Ownership of data flows and system dependencies for financial reporting
• Support cross-functional initiatives including new product launches, cost of revenue analysis, and ad-hoc accounting requests
• Analyze results and variances, identifying trends, and recommend actions
• Maintain process documentation and ensure SOX control readiness as the business scales
• Serve as revenue accounting lead for stand-alone state audits and regulatory reviews
• Ensure revenue accounting practices are compliant with GAAP
• Coordinate and manage external audit requests, including PBCs, walkthroughs, and follow-ups
• Provide hands-on leadership to a team of revenue accounting professionals, balancing direct execution with coaching, review, and team development
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in accounting or finance
• 5-7 years of experience in revenue accounting, accounting operations, or a related finance role
• Experience in building cross-functional relationships and partnering with senior leaders
• Working knowledge of US GAAP as it relates to revenue recognition and internal controls
• Ability to think proactively and work in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Desire to develop and continuously improve processes
• Experience handling annual audits
• Excellent proficiency in the use of spreadsheet programs and other software applications for financial analysis with strong analytical skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; 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 approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. 

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.