Wasserman
Vice President, Finance EMEA
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THE·TEAM is proud to provide representation and marketing services to talent, brands, and properties across 28 countries and more than 70 cities worldwide.
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Job Overview
We’re looking for a Vice President, Finance EMEA to join our Corporate team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for all accounting and finance operations for Global Football EMEA, overseeing all transactions related to the general ledger, receivables, payables, cash accounting, payroll, tax compliance, and financial reporting in accordance with local GAAP and US GAAP accounting standards.
You’ll partner closely with divisional leaders and lead country football agents, providing robust financial insight to inform decision-making and support growth and margin expansion. It’s a good fit for someone who thrives in a fast-moving business environment, can manage multiple priorities, and is committed to delivering an excellent service to our agents and clients.
What You’ll Do
- Lead Finance Business Partnering for Global Football EMEA, partnering with heads of divisions on strategic planning from both organic and acquisitive growth perspectives.
- Partner with Global Football operational teams.
- Lead the financial planning cycle for the division, including budgets, forecasts, long-term plans, performance reviews, upside and risk tracking, and financial reporting accuracy improvement.
- Oversee and manage the month-end close process including ensuring account certifications are prepared to the highest standards in line with group policy and submitted in a timely fashion.
- Build commercial insights across divisions, cost centers, and agent P&Ls, transfer and agency revenue, athlete marketing, and client roster strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Model the impact of contract renewals, new agent hires, client roster changes, and team deal structures so leaders can make better-informed decisions.
- Establish clear performance management reporting, including KPI packs, monthly business reviews, variance analysis, and follow-up with accountable business owners.
- Challenge investment requests and deal economics, ensuring commercial ambition is balanced with appropriate financial governance.
- Quantify financial risk and work with division leads to mitigate identified risks.
- Oversee revenue and profitability tracking by agent, cost center, and geography, highlighting the drivers behind performance rather than only reporting outcomes.
- Oversee the partnering with shared service and central finance teams on billing, accrued income, aged debt, cash conversion, and month-end hand-offs, ensuring operational processes support commercial performance.
- Lead projects to improve processes and efficiencies, collaborating with the wider finance team.
- Improve reporting, models, and data definitions, reducing manual effort and creating a clearer single source of truth for Football leadership.
- Resolve non-standard issues and challenges, using strong judgment and leadership skills.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Global Football Finance and Accounting team, ensuring high-quality finance and accounting support for the division, while raising financial literacy across the wider Football team and helping non-finance stakeholders understand the commercial consequences of decision-making.
- Support the M&A team in due diligence and deal processes, providing knowledge and expertise around the sector and deal economics.
- Lead and manage the integration of acquisitions and/or new business ventures and quickly establish robust financial controls and reporting that align with the group.
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What We’re Looking For
- A senior finance leader with strong Finance Business Partnering experience, ideally gained in a sport, media, or talent management agency.
- Qualified accountant (10+ years post-qualified), with the technical depth to operate confidently across P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, revenue recognition principles, working capital, and management reporting.
- Proven ability to lead budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, scenario modeling, and performance management in a fast-moving business with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to understand the Football industry and how its activities ultimately impact on the business's financial performance.
- A credible senior stakeholder partner who can influence, challenge, and advise leadership teams while maintaining trust.
- Excellent analytical judgment ensuring insights translate into actionable recommendations.
- Communicator who can simplify complex financial issues for non-finance audiences and tell a clear commercial story through reports, dashboards, and presentations.
- Strong control mindset and judgment, with the ability to balance entrepreneurial pace with financial discipline, governance, and risk awareness.
- Comfortable improving processes, models, and reporting infrastructure, including working with planning tools, Excel, BI dashboards, and finance systems.
- People leadership experience is essential, particularly coaching of team members and building high-performance partnering capability.
- Experience working in a multinational organization, managing deliverables to both regional and global head offices alongside local subsidiary offices and operations.
- Promote a supportive team environment and provide work direction and guidance, contributing to the overall high standard and continuous improvement culture.
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What We Offer
- Hybrid working pattern of 3 days a week from our Aldwych House office.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Private healthcare, Gymflex, enhanced parental leave, and cycle to work scheme benefits amongst many others.
- Excellent office environment; we're dog-friendly, offer company and departmental social events, and breakfast, drinks, and snacks in the office.
- THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
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