Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Catapult Sports
Sports technology for athlete performance
Job no longer available
Sports technology for athlete performance
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of FP&A experience with 4+ years in a management capacity
- Strong leadership, data visualization, and verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to tell a story through data, and to make the complex simple
- Proven ability to add significant value by devising insights from data and analyses, including an ability to isolate data anomalies and identify relevant trends and thematics
- A keen desire to immerse yourself in understanding end-to-end business functions and practices, and customer journeys, coupled with the commercial acumen to identify opportunities from them
- Excellent attention to detail, and a passion to be immersed in numbers
- An obsession for extracting efficiencies and driving continuous improvement
- Experience working with data-obsessed senior leaders (C-level) to support and influence their decision making, and the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and rigorously debate their difficult questions under tough pressure and tight deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to form, lead and develop high-performing teams
- A passion and talent for working collaboratively and servicing internal customers, including operating a team under a business partnering model
- Experience in running complex annual and ad hoc planning processes
- Experience in overseeing the implementation of business systems and processes that scale in unison with the company’s growth
- Experience in high growth, complex, global, and ideally SaaS businesses, including running projects with diverse stakeholder groups in multiple time-zones
- Experience with an enterprise financial planning software tool, ideally Adaptive Planning, as well as spreadsheet modelling standards such as FAST
- Proficiency in all MS Office programs, NetSuite, and Salesforce is desired
What the job involves
- Work closely with the full Company executive, to provide strategic, financial, operational, economic, and statistical analysis to frame and drive key business and investment decisions, and test various scenarios and hypotheses
- Identify and illustrate key business trends and drivers through effective data interpretation, and communicate these with impact through logical and compelling presentations and visualizations
- Implement systems and processes to ensure that internal analyses, reporting, and decision making are relevant, timely, and accurate. This includes building out additional functionality in core systems, adopting common modelling standards for all financial analyses, initiating capex business cases and monitoring their ROI, ensuring analyses are conducted consistently and in accordance with appropriate definitions, etc
- Lead the development of KPIs, scorecards, and reports to track the performance of projects, initiatives, and strategies, with a focus on results, execution, speed, and learning
- Be responsible for the preparation of the annual budget (including a multi-year operational plan, and departmental budgets), rolling monthly financial and cash forecasts, as well as provide insights and commentary on the Company’s performance against key metrics
- Work with key stakeholders on specific projects and initiatives (e.g., employee incentives and sales commissions) to ensure analyses are conducted appropriately and within the Company’s overall objectives
- Support proposed M&A transactions with valuation modelling and due diligence
- Drive continued improvement in the Company’s new financial planning system (Workday Adaptive Planning) and ERP (NetSuite)
- Work closely with the Accounts, and Revenue Operations teams to improve reporting, perform predictive and other analytics, and provide high-value insights to better understand our users, and the impact of our R&D, and sales and marketing investments (including attribution, churn prediction, lifetime value modelling, etc)
- Build and lead a global team across Boston and Melbourne Australia: attract, hire, retain and motivate top talent to support the company’s FP&A and data needs and growth
Our take
Catapult is a leader in the sports technology market, pioneering wearable technology that provides valuable insights to help athletes prevent injuries, optimise performance and manage their return to play. Over time, the company has expanded its offerings to include advanced wearable analytics, video analysis tools, and athlete management systems.
The company boasts an elite clientele including thousands of big-name teams worldwide, such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, the New York Giants, and the Australian Cricket team. These teams rely on Catapult's cutting-edge technology to monitor and improve athletes' performance across training and competition.
This is a good demonstration of Catapult's value, but where it stands out is in its support of grassroots athletes and clubs. Essentially, while many consumer-grade wearables excel at collecting data, they fail to guide people in using it effectively. To address this, Catapult creates tailored training plans to help amateur athletes leverage data for better results in a similar way to professionals.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Prahran, VIC
Leadership
Will Lopes
(CEO & Managing Director)Joined Catapult in 2019 as CEO and Managing Director. Previously spent 19 years at Audible in a number of roles, including Executive Vice President of International Operations and CRO. They also founded Corridor Services where they served as the CEO.
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