the NBA Hiring for Corporate Finance & Strategy Manager Job at New York, NY Full Time

At the NBA, we’re passionate about growing and celebrating the game of basketball. Through the intensity of the game and the amazing athletic skill of our players, we deliver excitement to hundreds of millions of fans around the world.

As a global sports and media business, the NBA is so much more. While Basketball Operations runs the league’s on-court activities, other departments manage relationships with television and digital media partners, develop marketing partnerships with some of the world’s most recognizable companies, oversee the licensing of NBA merchandise, and handle a wide range of responsibilities that drive the NBA’s success.

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

Position Summary:

The Corporate Finance & Strategy group provides analytical and transactional support to the NBA league office and to our 30 teams, with the goal of enabling the NBA to achieve its long-term financial targets. This group is also tasked with maintaining the NBA’s near-term and long-term financial models, forecasting and analyzing the effects of the NBA’s revenue sharing plan across teams, and helping to optimize the capital structure and franchise values of our 30 teams.

The Corporate Finance & Strategy, Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the group’s efforts. This individual will perform extensive financial modeling and analysis in support of NBA teams and strategic league-wide initiatives, develop an in-depth understanding of our unique financial systems, and work in close partnership with other groups throughout finance and the broader organization.

Major Responsibility:

• Maintain and enhance the NBA’s near-term and long-term financial models
• Build additional financial models and analyses in support of individual NBA team transactions and strategic league-wide initiatives
• Support quarterly projection process, including review of team-submitted forecasts, integration with other data sources, and communication of results and implications to management
• Create presentation materials for NBA board meetings and other senior executive requests
• Provide quarterly and annual reporting and ad hoc financial benchmarking analyses to NBA teams
• Track performance of comparable public companies and perform other related market research
• Provide other ad hoc financial analyses and scenario planning support as necessary

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to produce complex financial models from scratch and quickly digest existing models, with deep attention to detail
• Expert user of Excel and PowerPoint
• Proactive self-starter who can work independently within set objectives
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solution-oriented approach
• Experience working and multi-tasking in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to synthesize work product to convey most critical takeaways to senior management
• Minimum 2-4 years relevant finance experience; ideal candidate will have 2+ years of investment banking, equity research, corporate finance, or equivalent experience
• Strong interest in sports and/or media industries preferred

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably with a major in Finance/Business