Senior Manager, Finance & Business Operations

• Location 3600 SOUTH BLVD STE 200,Charlotte, NC, 28209-2343,United States
• Employee Type Full-Time

Description

Sports Data Services runs OddsJam, OpticOdds, RotoWire, and our Search Marketing business, about 120 people. This role is the finance and operations partner for the SDS leadership team. You own how we measure the business each month, keep the forecast honest, and make sure people get paid correctly. We use AI and automation heavily, and we expect you to build the routine work out of your own job so your time goes to solving hard problems.

Responsibilities

• ? Close revenue reviews. Each month, sign off for accounting on manually billed fixed fees, Stripe revenue (OJ and OO), OJ affiliate deals, RotoWire subscriptions, RotoWire B2B contracts, and other affiliate revenue, working with each business lead.
• ? Monthly P&L review. Review SDS P&L actuals with corporate FP&A each close, flag misclassifications, and work with teams to improve our revenue mapping. Work with business partners to discuss results and brainstorm business improvements MoM, analyze against forecast, and QoQ for review cycles.
• ? Monthly business reviews. Use our existing AI infrastructure to produce and distribute OddsJam, OpticOdds, RotoWire, and SDS Consolidated Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs) consisting of management reporting on P&L, KPI’s etc. Work with each business lead on commentary and explain variances to budget.
• ? Commissions. Calculate and reconcile monthly commissions across Marketing, OO, RW and partner rev share deals, but eventually offload this to a trusted partner.
• ? Revenue operations. Spot-check B2B invoicing, maintain MRR/ARR reporting, and keep the contractor and marketing spend trackers accurate.
• ? Cooperation with Accounting. Work alongside accounting to ensure that revenue is reported completely and accurately within the month end process: collaboration with revenue accounting and billing teams.
• ? Board reporting. Work with the FP&A analyst team on monthly comments in Workiva.
• ? Forecasting. Own the consolidated SDS forecast alongside the SVP of SDS. Partner with corporate FP&A on rolling forecasts and lead FP&A discussions ensuring budgets and forecasts are realistic.
• ? Automation. Work to automate a Day 1 MBR, forecast roll-up, and recurring reporting.
• ? Operating cadence. Keep the FP&A Confluence context current and support headcount planning.
• ? Process Improvements. Own continuous improvement of all processes. Audit existing workflows, document bottlenecks and control gaps, and implement fixes that reduce cycle time, manual effort, and reporting errors.

Qualifications

• ? 4+ years in Commercial Finance or FP&A, at a subscription, SaaS or data business
• ? Strong Excel and Sheets skills; comfortable reviewing a P&L end to end, down to the GL
• ? Ability to support month-end close with accounting: revenue tie-outs and flux commentary
• ? Experience with subscription metrics (MRR, ARR, churn, cohort) and Stripe data
• ? Strong systems knowledge: Netsuite, Ramp, Stripe, Cube or similar FP&A tools
• ? Ability to sit with a business leader and turn their output into a clear story
• ? Skilled collaborator and troubleshooter, willing to work deep into the details
• ? You already use AI tools to speed up your work and want to do more of it
• ? Detail-oriented on anything that touches someone's paycheck

Bonus

• ? Sports betting, fantasy, or affiliate marketing background
• ? SQL or a BI tool; Workiva experience
• ? Experience inside a PE-backed or multi-brand holding company