Financial Planning & Forecasting Manager, SeatGeek
$109-167k
+ Equity Stake
Ticketing platform for live events
Posted today
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$109-167k
+ Equity Stake
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- 6-8 years of progressive experience in FP&A, management consulting, or investment banking, with 5+ years of direct FP&A experience preferred
- Experience partnering with Analytics and Data Science teams to integrate data-driven forecasting into FP&A processes
- Mastery of financial modeling (3-statement, NPV, Cohort Modeling) and spreadsheet functionality
- Advanced understanding of relational databases and BI tool functionality
- Strong project management skills - you are capable of conceiving and executing projects independently, with minimal oversight from manager
What the job involves
- The FP&F team’s mission is to support and enable better financial planning and decision-making by leading forecasting processes across the business
- The team consists of dedicated forecasting partners who support functions across SeatGeek by collaborating on and consolidating revenue and margin models for our Primary, Secondary, EMEA, and Inventory business lines
- The team is responsible for weekly, quarterly, and long-range forecasting and budgeting; developing SeatGeek’s scenario planning capabilities; and supporting the Investor Relations team with guidance formulation
- Maintaining the rolling Secondary revenue forecasts to inform in-quarter resource deployment decisions and to provide a preview of quarterly accounting close results
- Partnering with the Commercial Performance, Account Management, and Analytics teams to budget and consolidate our existing client, integrated partnership, and non-integrated Secondary revenue lines
- Collaborating with the Demand team to understand and incorporate the impact of marketing spend and its ROI on our Secondary budget
- Developing scenario planning capabilities to allow SeatGeek to plan and prepare for a wide range of environments in the unpredictable live events business
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Jul 2020
$121m
SERIES D
Total funding: $462.2m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Ample Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching Program
- Parental Leave - 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period
- Health and wellness subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace
- Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours + Company-Wide Hackathons 3-4 times per Year
- SeatGeek Monthly Ticket-Purchase Stipend
- Flexible work environment - Work as many days a week in the office as you'd like, or 100% remotely
- WFH Office Setup Stipend
Company values
- Start With Fans - When fans win, everyone wins
- Be Humbold - We're bold, but humble
- Pull Back The Curtains - We put outsized focus on building the most talented team possible
- Don't Do Bullsh*t Work - If unchecked, every job results in too many hours spent on bullsh*t work. We design how we work to spend the most time doing rather than preparing to do
- Stack The Lineup - Our team is our biggest unfair advantage, and the best teams bring together different backgrounds and experiences
- Play Long Ball - We take big bets on the future
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Worked as an analyst for Monitor. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Web Developer at Tickerhound. Co-founded and was a Web Developer at Niqos.
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