FP&A Manager - Business Operations & Analytics

Overview

This role supports financial planning and analysis for the organization’s Esports and Digital business units. The FP&A Manager - Business Operations & Analytics will connect commercial activity, operational performance, and financial outcomes by partnering with business and functional teams across Commercial, Operations, Data, HR, Accounting, and Finance.

Eligibility

This position is open only to applicants who are currently residing in and authorized to work in the United States. Candidates must have valid, unrestricted work authorization at the time of application and for the duration of employment. The employer is unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas, now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Business Partnering & Planning

  • Coordinate annual budget, reforecasting, and five-year planning inputs for the Esports and Digital business units
  • Translate commercial, operational, and resource assumptions into clear financial forecasts
  • Identify key risks, opportunities, and actions

• Revenue, Pipeline & Commercial Analysis

  • Partner with Commercial and Commercial Operations to improve sales pipeline data quality and financial usability
  • Review opportunity value, probability, timing, scope, and revenue classification
  • Connect CRM pipeline data with forecasting, project budgeting, contracting, resource planning, and profitability reporting

• Business Cases & Contract Viability

  • Develop and review business cases for new events, products, partnerships, investments, and commercial opportunities
  • Assess revenue potential, delivery costs, resource requirements, profitability, and downside risk
  • Review financial viability of contracts, including pricing, margin, payment terms, cost exposure, and operational assumptions

• Project Economics & COGS

  • Support project budgets, pricing models, and commercial proposals
  • Track revenue, cost of goods sold, gross margin, and contribution margin throughout the project lifecycle
  • Work with operational teams to improve forecasting of production, broadcast, technology, travel, venue, vendor, and other delivery costs

• Workforce & Operational KPIs

  • Analyze hours worked, labor utilization, capacity, project allocation, personnel costs, and resource requirements
  • Develop reporting for KPIs including pipeline conversion, project profitability, hours worked, hours watched, ticket volumes, attendance, ticket revenue, and digital engagement
  • Translate operational performance into financial implications

• Data, Reporting & Analytics

  • Build scalable datasets, models, dashboards, and reporting tools using data from CRM, finance, workforce, ticketing, broadcast, digital product, and operational systems
  • Support finance-relevant data models in platforms such as BigQuery or Snowflake
  • Create dashboards in Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools
  • Apply AI, automation, scripting, and analytics where practical

• Management Reporting & Ad Hoc Analysis

  • Prepare recurring and ad hoc analysis for business unit leaders, Finance leadership, and senior stakeholders
  • Explain performance, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
  • Support broader Controlling & FP&A priorities as required

Requirements

• Experience

  • Experience in financial analytics, business intelligence, data analytics, FP&A, commercial finance, business operations, or another highly analytical role

• Technical Skills

  • Strong proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets and experience working with large or complex datasets
  • Experience with SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, dashboarding, data transformation, automation, scripting, or AI-assisted analytical tools is highly desirable

• Analytical Thinking

  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to structure analysis from ambiguous business questions
  • Comfortable investigating discrepancies, testing assumptions, and working through imperfect data and evolving processes

• Business Partnering

  • Ability to work directly with commercial, operational, technical, and finance stakeholders
  • Capable of constructively challenging assumptions and clearly communicating complex analysis to technical and non-technical audiences

• Business Knowledge

  • Strong interest in how businesses generate revenue, incur costs, allocate resources, and create value
  • Knowledge of esports, gaming, live events, event production, studio production, or broadcast operations is a strong advantage

• Work Style

  • Proactive, curious, accountable, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
  • Focused on building repeatable and scalable solutions rather than relying on manual workarounds