Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a global digital sports platform across commerce, collectibles, and betting and gaming. The Accounting Manager will own key close operations and financial reporting activities for Fanatics Betting & Gaming, including joint venture, non-controlling interest, consolidation, intercompany, and statutory accounting. The role also partners across finance and business teams, supports audits and controls, and drives process improvements in a regulated, multi-entity environment.
Responsibilities
- Review journal entries prepared by the Staff Accountant for accuracy, completeness, and proper support prior to posting
- Own joint venture and non-controlling interest accounting, including NCI allocations and related financial statement presentation
- Manage the consolidation and elimination process across all FBG legal entities, ensuring intercompany balances are properly reconciled and eliminated each close cycle
- Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations across assigned areas, monitoring reconciliation status and ensuring timely resolution of open items
- Prepare quarterly flux analysis across key balance sheet and income statement accounts, identifying and explaining significant variances and trends to support financial review
- Prepare and review quarterly and annual financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, including state-level reporting requirements
- Maintain and strengthen internal controls (including SOX) across consolidation and intercompany accounting processes
- Support and coordinate the external audit process, preparing audit schedules and serving as a primary point of contact for auditor requests in areas of ownership
- Collaborate with Shared Services on transactional and intercompany accounting and with Technical Accounting on complex or non-routine transactions
- Partner with Finance on budgets and forecasts, providing accounting context and ensuring alignment between actuals and plan
- Work closely with business stakeholders to stay ahead of operational and structural developments and ensure they are appropriately captured in the financials
- Identify and drive process improvements across consolidation, intercompany, and close workflows to support accuracy, efficiency, and scale
- Support and develop team members, helping build a high-performing accounting function
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field
- * 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with demonstrated ownership of close processes and financial statement preparation
- * Strong foundation in US GAAP; IFRS knowledge a plus
- * Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage competing deadlines across multiple entities
- * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across finance, accounting, and business teams
- * Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment and proactively manage through ambiguity
- * CPA or equivalent strongly preferred
- * Experience in financial services, gaming, or other regulated industries with complex multi-entity structures strongly preferred
- * Experience with consolidation accounting and NCI strongly preferred
- * Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; experience with financial systems and ERP platforms preferred
Benefits
- This position is eligible for remote work within the United States.
- Bonus in addition to base pay
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