Vice President of Finance, DAZN
France & Belgium
Live sports streaming service
Open for applications
Live sports streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
DAZN's mission is to connect fans to the sports they love, their way.
Role
Who you are
- Senior level experience with experience operating in senior finance positions
- Experience partnering with senior executives on key strategic decisions, for example influencing major partner deal negotiations or product pricing recommendations
- Proven ability to thrive in multifaceted environment under short timelines & changing priorities
- Proven experience of managing & motivating a hardworking group of ambitious finance analysts / business partners to deliver effective business partnering to multiple stakeholders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross functionally & establish strong relationships
- Experience in a subscription business with a detailed understanding of acquisition, churn and ARPU metrics
- Strong commercial awareness and strategic/business acumen
- Pro-active and have an ability to operate in ambiguous and changing situations with multiple (at times conflicting) stakeholders to deliver results to meet deadlines
- Entrepreneurial mindset with great leadership skills
- Awareness & understanding of off and on-line marketing methodologies
- Excellent financial modelling, quantitative & data analysis skills
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a commercial and passionate individual with a background in commercial finance to play a critical role in the continued expansion of DAZN
- Based in our Paris office, the role will be to lead finance for France and Belgium, partnering with DAZN’s senior management team and working with external stakeholders at sports leagues and distribution partners
- You will be responsible for managing financial and commercial performance delivering targets and enabling effective decision making
- P&L ownership, including managing opportunities, risks & trade offs to ensure the business remains within the parameters of its long-term plan
- Be a key member of the management team in understanding the financial results and suite of business KPIs and using them to play a leading role in driving performance and maximising opportunities across all areas of the P&L (including subscription, betting, advertising, marketing and content)
- Prepare quarterly forecasts and annual budgets across the P&L and operating cash flows (including challenging / obtaining buy-in from non-finance teams on the forecast inputs & KPIs that drive financial outputs) and managing the business against those barometers & reporting / interpreting actual results
- Be the Finance owner & expert on all commercial contracts, large scale Distribution deals & Rights agreements
- Develop and maintain relationships with external partners, including distributors and rightsholders
- Prepare & present monthly financial reviews for divisional and central stakeholders, analysing financial performance against benchmarks and highlighting risks, opportunities and insights
- Prepare board and management presentations that include a holistic overview of financial performance
- Influence and assist divisional management with respect to evaluating, negotiating and contracting new opportunities and contracts, including financial modelling in alignment with best practice from the central financial modelling team
- Play a lead role in the establishment and maintenance of a strong culture of governance and control across the business
- Collaborate with senior leadership in modelling pricing, proposition and offers
- Work closely with Group Finance in order to drive continuous improvements in the delivery of finance services to key finance / other management stakeholders impacting the P&L including cash-flow management and provision of monthly management accounts (including balance sheet)
Our take
DAZN is a sports streaming subscription service providing full coverage of every game in a league, with commentary from the home country it’s being shown in.
Referred to as the "Netflix of sport", DAZN has pursued an aggressive strategy of buying up popular, undervalued sports rights and launched quickly into new markets since launching in 2016. This has meant they were able to monopolise the television rights for combat sports like boxing and NFL. They now stream nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year.
The company is also boosted by its sizeable B2B activities, which includes providing streaming and data to other sports broadcasters, betting firms and publishers. DAZN also owns Goal.com, a football website with 100 million users, and Opta, a well-known sports analytics company.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years)
- Nnual performance-related bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contributions up to 5%
- Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
- Learning and development resources
- Opportunity for flexible working
- Internal speaker series and events
Company values
- AMBITIOUS - Everyone here wants to make a big impact at a personal, company and customer level
- INVENTIVE - Pushing boundaries, never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers
- PASSIONATE - This means showing commitment and pride in what we do every day
- BRAVE - You need to get stuck in. Bring initiative but don’t be afraid of asking for help
- SUPPORTIVE - We look out for each other and strive for inclusion and diversity in all we do
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
James Rushton
(Co-founder)He held leadership positions at Perform group for over 16 years
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