Financial Manager – Marketing
Location –Dublin/Leeds/London
Hybrid - 2 days per week (Dublin only)
18 month contract
Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (FanDuel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge. It’s our competitive advantage, our ‘secret sauce’ which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale.
In Flutter Finance we pride ourselves in providing global expertise to ensure Flutter is financially healthy. Utilizing our Flutter Edge to turbo-charge our capabilities.
The Finance Manager – Marketing will assist in delivering financial and management information to all internal and external stakeholders, focusing predominantly on accounting and reporting for marketing costs. This will include being involved in the management of specific operating expenses and the reporting of monthly results with analysis.
This role is within the Global Financial Control team, and is designed to be working closely with the FanDuel Finance team and other Fanduel teams, including Marketing and FP&A. Flexibility to align working hours with US time zone (EST) during peak times will be required.
The role will provide leadership through clear communication of responsibilities, guidance when required, training and development where appropriate and proactive performance management.
What You’ll Do
- Assist with the production of month-end numbers for Brand Marketing and Customer Acquisition within Group Reporting/US team deadlines.
- Prepare month-end accrual and reclass journal entries for the FanDuel Marketing area.
- Provide Actual vs. Budget analysis on assigned accounts, flagging key variances in advance of close.
- Preparation, maintenance, and reconciliation of certain Balance Sheet accounts within set deadlines.
- Examine marketing contracts, ensuring accurate accounting treatment and GL posting, maintaining contract tracker.
- Ensure accurate G/L mapping.
- Support the implementation of standard methodologies to simplify, standardize, and automate processes to help the business scale effectively and enhance month-end timelines.
- Provide financial information to management by researching and analysing accounting data to support key decision-making.
- Collaborate and communicate with various US-based teams.
- Proactively engage with assigned budget owners to improve processes and procedures around monthly accruals.
- Continuously review processes and procedures in light of changes in systems and requirements of the business and adjust as required.
- Work with management to detail accounting processes and internal controls.
- Proactively engage in cross-training initiatives.
- Work closely with the Financial Controllers on various ad hoc tasks.
- Assist in the production of budgets and forecasts, ensuring the completeness of monthly accounts and supporting commercial decision-making.
- Deliver timely and accurate financial information to the Group reporting and US teams.
- Build and maintain relationships with key business partners (internal and external).
- Assist with building out vendor-level reconciliation processes for specific partners.
- Assist FP&A with preparing and monitoring budgets for committed deals.
- Proactively engage with internal and external audits.
- Support related teams within Finance to produce the best results for the team overall.
How You’ll Do It
To succeed in this role, you should have:
- A qualification as an accountant with 3+ years of experience in a similar environment, demonstrating a proven track record in financial reporting and analysis.
- Experience in a US GAAP/SOX environment (advantageous).
- Keen attention to detail and a drive to improve quality.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to challenge collaborators and performance manage direct reports effectively.
- The ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff confidently and professionally.
- Comfort working with large volumes of data and in highly automated environments.
- A team-oriented approach with the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with Oracle ERP or similar financial systems (advantageous).
- Excellent proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel.
What’s in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:
- Bonus scheme
- Uncapped holiday allowance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Hybrid working
- £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
- Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
- Paid volunteering days
- Enhanced parental leave
- Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
- Recognition programs
- Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!
About Flutter
We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and Yacross the world.
We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.
With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.
We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.
If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.
