<p>Location: New York - New York</p><br/><p>Employment Type: Salaried</p><br/><p>Team: Accounting & Finance</p><br/><div><b>Company Overview</b></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting &amp; Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.&nbsp; We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fanaticsinc.com" class="postings-link">www.fanaticsinc.com</a>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt">Reporting the North America Sports &amp; Entertainment Director of Finance, The Topps Company is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Finance team located in Manhattan.&nbsp;This high-profile team directly supports both the Direct-to-Consumer and Wholesale businesses for Topps’ Sports &amp; Entertainment division by leading the month end close process, quarterly forecasting, management reporting, and strategic planning activities.&nbsp;This position offers a unique opportunity to develop your finance and analysis skills, while supporting a fast-growing business.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><br/><ul><li>Assist with the forecasting process and own portions of the financial forecast models, including P&amp;L, cash flow, and supporting schedules/analyses. Ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy.</li><li>Lead month end close process and analyze actual performance vs. plan, prior year, and current forecast</li><li>Maintain financial models to support sales forecast and product profitability analysis</li><li>Assist with the preparation of Senior Management presentations/meetings (Monthly Business Reviews, Board of Directors meetings, forecast review meetings, etc.)</li><li>Develop and maintain key metric reporting and ad-hoc analyses which includes but not limited to daily sales, KPI dashboards and vendor analyses</li><li>Compile data for royalty report submissions to all licensees and 3rd parties</li><li>Monitor and reporting on accounts receivables and deferred revenue</li><li>Support the creation of the annual and multi-year strategic plan</li><li>Identify and develop process efficiencies and automation to create standardized, efficient and repeatable processes</li><li>Support Wholesale and eCommerce Finance Managers for ad-hoc requests and decision-support analysis</li></ul><br/><h3>Qualifications & Experience</h3><br/><ul><li>1-3 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, and planning for an operational unit or in a corporate finance setting is required</li><li>Experience with Oracle EBS and Hyperion, or similar systems is required</li><li>Experience working within MS Excel; including vlookup, sumif and pivot tables is required, in addition to strong skills in and PowerPoint as well</li><li>Working in a hybrid accounting and financial planning function is a plus</li><li>e-Commerce experience, specifically experience in Magento 2.0, is preferred</li><li>Experience with third-party reporting/compliance tools is preferred (including, but not limited to PayPal, Braintree, Google Analytics) </li><li>Ability to work with and analyze large amounts of data</li><li>This role is hybrid-3 days a week in the office, 2 from home</li><li><br></li></ul><br/><div><b>Things We Care About</b></div><div><br></div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.</div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Diversity and Inclusion</div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Our Company <a href="https://www.fanaticsinc.com/culture" class="postings-link">Culture and Values</a></div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Providing outstanding <a href="https://www.fanaticsinc.com/perks-and-benefits" class="postings-link">Company Perks and Benefits</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.</i></div><div><br></div><div><u>Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.&nbsp; Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants.&nbsp; Fanatics recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @fanatics.com or @fanatics.co.uk email address.&nbsp; For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at <a href="http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers" class="postings-link">www.fanaticsinc.com/careers</a></u></div><div><br></div><div>Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.</div><div><br></div><div><b>NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS</b>: In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information.<i>&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Location: New York - New York

  

Employment Type: Salaried

  

Team: Accounting & Finance

  

 **Company Overview**



Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and
harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds
of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database
of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand
name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for
licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports
platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports
ecosystem.



The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a
vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way
fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods
through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in
today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles
company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and
MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through
Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the
collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association
partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail
sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports
leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and
professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.



As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners,
suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward
more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an
inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every
level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans.
Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities
where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.



At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite
pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.  We recognize
that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program
(inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees
with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and
what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

  

[www.fanaticsinc.com](http://www.fanaticsinc.com)

  

Reporting the North America Sports & Entertainment Director of Finance, The
Topps Company is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Finance team
located in Manhattan. This high-profile team directly supports both the
Direct-to-Consumer and Wholesale businesses for Topps’ Sports & Entertainment
division by leading the month end close process, quarterly forecasting,
management reporting, and strategic planning activities. This position offers
a unique opportunity to develop your finance and analysis skills, while
supporting a fast-growing business.  

### Key Responsibilities

  

  * Assist with the forecasting process and own portions of the financial forecast models, including P&L, cash flow, and supporting schedules/analyses. Ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy.
  * Lead month end close process and analyze actual performance vs. plan, prior year, and current forecast
  * Maintain financial models to support sales forecast and product profitability analysis
  * Assist with the preparation of Senior Management presentations/meetings (Monthly Business Reviews, Board of Directors meetings, forecast review meetings, etc.)
  * Develop and maintain key metric reporting and ad-hoc analyses which includes but not limited to daily sales, KPI dashboards and vendor analyses
  * Compile data for royalty report submissions to all licensees and 3rd parties
  * Monitor and reporting on accounts receivables and deferred revenue
  * Support the creation of the annual and multi-year strategic plan
  * Identify and develop process efficiencies and automation to create standardized, efficient and repeatable processes
  * Support Wholesale and eCommerce Finance Managers for ad-hoc requests and decision-support analysis

  

### Qualifications & Experience

  

  * 1-3 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, and planning for an operational unit or in a corporate finance setting is required
  * Experience with Oracle EBS and Hyperion, or similar systems is required
  * Experience working within MS Excel; including vlookup, sumif and pivot tables is required, in addition to strong skills in and PowerPoint as well
  * Working in a hybrid accounting and financial planning function is a plus
  * e-Commerce experience, specifically experience in Magento 2.0, is preferred
  * Experience with third-party reporting/compliance tools is preferred (including, but not limited to PayPal, Braintree, Google Analytics) 
  * Ability to work with and analyze large amounts of data
  * This role is hybrid-3 days a week in the office, 2 from home
  *   

  

 **Things We Care About**

  

·         Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your
well-being.

·         Diversity and Inclusion

·         Our Company [Culture and
Values](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/culture)

·         Providing outstanding [Company Perks and
Benefits](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/perks-and-benefits)

  

 _Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and
charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your
court now._

  

 _Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.
Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants.  Fanatics recruiters will
only reach out to applicants from an @fanatics.com or @fanatics.co.uk email
address.  For added security, where possible, apply through our company
website at [www.fanaticsinc.com/careers](http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers)_

  

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices,
working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply
chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with
other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of
Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

  

 **NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS** : In connection with your
application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or
describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information
that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s),
email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact
information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and
demographic information. _ _  We collect and use those categories of Personal
Information about you for human resources and other business management
purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for
potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in
relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as
permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with
applicable legal requirements and Company policies.

  

  

