Strategic Finance Manager, SeatGeek
$109-167k
+equity options
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$109-167k
+equity options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
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
- Experience partnering with Marketing teams and familiarity with Marketing concepts such as ROAS, CLV, incrementality, and CPC/RPC
- 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 Strategic Finance Manager sits within the Financial Planning & Forecasting sub team, whose 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 monthly, quarterly, and long-range forecasting and budgeting; developing SeatGeek’s scenario planning capabilities; and supporting the Investor Relations team with guidance formulation
- This role reports to our Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance
- This is an individual contributor role managing a function rather than team members
- Develop and maintain models for our consensus driven forecasting process to inform in-quarter resource deployment decisions and to provide a preview of quarterly accounting close results
- Partner with the Commercial Performance, Account Management, and Analytics teams to budget and consolidate our existing client, integrated partnership, and non-integrated Secondary revenue lines
- Collaborate with the Demand team to understand and incorporate the impact of marketing spend and its ROI on our Secondary budget
- Develop 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.
Steph
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$78.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $419.9m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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