Senior Financial Analyst, WNBA Team Finance

WNB WNBA • New York, NY

8d • $95,000 - $110,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in coordinating financial reporting and analytics related to WNBA teams. The role supports WNBA Team Finance, the central point of contact for team financial representatives, and helps review team projections and related audit processes. The analyst performs analyses of team financial performance and assists with ticket and union reporting and other deliverables throughout the annual business cycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• At least 3–4 years of experience in public accounting, financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or another strategic finance role.
• Strong attention to detail, resourcefulness, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, and follow-through.
• Effective communication skills for working with team financial personnel and external auditors.
• Ability to multitask while meeting strict deadlines.
• High proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office/computer systems.
• Comfort working with large data sets and creating executive-level summaries and trend reports.
• Experience managing data sets, including extracting and merging data from source systems, transforming it, and providing preliminary descriptive analytics.

Nice To Haves

• CPA certification.
• Knowledge of Excel macros, Index/Match, and VLOOKUPs.
• Experience leveraging AI tools.
• Experience with SAP.

Responsibilities

• Collect and vet team projections, perform variance analysis, and ensure reporting consistency among teams.
• Run benchmarking analyses on team projection submissions and provide insights to team and league personnel.
• Assist with weekly ticket reporting for team and league distribution and review it for compliance with reporting requirements.
• Serve as a contact for league deliverables, including team billing requisitions and communications to teams.
• Assist with team audits by acting as a liaison between team financial representatives and external auditors.
• Research accounting guidance as needed to assist teams.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary performance bonus, subject to company discretion and terms and conditions.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Fertility and family-forming assistance.
• Wellbeing allowance.
• Educational assistance.
• Mental health coaching and therapy.
• Tax-advantaged accounts, including HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Time-off benefits including vacation, sick time, and personal days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior