Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

WORK OPTION: Hybrid

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms.  NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness. 
 

Position Summary

Report to the FP&A Lead and serve as key member of the FP&A team for the region. The position will focus on all aspects of management reporting, budgeting, projection, commercial deal analysis, financial due diligence, as well as expense management for the region.

Major Responsibilities

• Subject matter expert in conducting detailed financial analysis during annual Business Planning and quarterly projection process for Asia & India, supporting the Head of Finance / FP&A Lead to develop multiple years’ revenue & expense targets
• Act as a key liaison and contact window with NBA HQ FP&A team to ensure smooth business plan/forecast submission. Be the subject matter expert/superuser for Workday Adaptive Planning (NBA’s Planning System), OfficeConnect, SAP Analysis/Reporting for Asia & India
• Work closely with the controllership/accounting team to carry out regular monthly financial review to identify risks/opportunities in both revenues and expenses. Prepare reclasses and year end accruals and ensure that the closing results is correctly reflective of the business performance
• Monitor and prepare monthly/quarterly management reports in a timely manner for all business units in the region
• Partner with the controllership team to enhance controls and put in place financial safeguards for Accounts Receivables as well as Accounts Payable
• Regular interaction with the commercial teams to help them understand the status of each team’s target attainment and variance drivers
• Work with the business partners in the primary cost centers to drive expense management discipline and ensure optimal expense spending efficiencies
• Manage regular expense tracking and recognition process through weekly expense reporting and AP system process (in Corcentric)
• Support FP&A lead and collaborate with the business partners during deal initiation and negotiation stages with detailed financial modelling/analyses and business case preparation
• Ascertain the creditworthiness of all potential/existing commercial partners of NBA Asia & India with detailed credit rating analyses and provide recommendation to Head of Finance before contracting begins

Key Relationships

•            Head of Finance, FP&A Lead, and NBA Asia Controllership team

•            Business Units’ Department Heads and functional leaders

•            NBA League Finance team (Central FP&A)

•            Central Accounting/Controllership team

•            Legal Department

Required Skills / Knowledge

• Strong/expert knowledge in business/reporting analytics, financial modelling and financial forecasting systems. Knowledge in Workday Adaptive Planning is a plus
• Business partnering experience in matrix organizations is highly advantageous
•  Motivated to drive continuous improvements in existing planning/forecasting/expense management processes, with limited supervision
• Comfortable to navigate in a culturally diverse organization
• Detailed oriented and able to handle large volume of data

Experience Needed

• 7-10 years professional experience in a finance (FP&A), Strategy, or Business Analytics role. Open to candidates from all industries
• Experience working for an MNC – exposure with Asia would be a plus
• Bilingual: Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarins would be a plus.
• Prior business partnership experience is a definite advantage.
• Comfortable to work with multiple business stakeholders at any given time and able to multitask with different priorities at a given time
• Strong communication/listening skills

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About the NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 215 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms.  Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.