Associate Manager (WNBA Team Finance)

Location: New York, USA; eligible employees may work remotely one day per week.

Salary: $95,000–$110,000 per year.

Company

The hirify.global is a professional basketball league operating the Whirify.global, a women's basketball league with 15 teams focused on competition, entertainment, broadcasting, digital content, and community outreach.

What you will do

• Collect, review, and validate Whirify.global team projections, perform variance analyses, and maintain consistent reporting across teams.
• Run benchmarking analyses on team projections and provide insights to team and league personnel.
• Support weekly ticket reporting for team and league distribution and review compliance with reporting requirements.
• Coordinate league deliverables, including team billing requisitions and communications with teams.
• Support team audits as a liaison between team financial representatives and external auditors.
• Research accounting guidance to assist teams with financial matters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 3–4 years of experience in public accounting, financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or another strategic finance role.
• Strong attention to detail, resourcefulness, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, and follow-through.
• Effective communication skills for working with team financial personnel and external auditors.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks while meeting strict deadlines.
• Very strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office or computer systems; Excel experience should include Index/Match and V-Lookups.
• Experience working with large data sets, including extracting and merging data from source systems, transforming data, and providing preliminary descriptive analytics.
• Ability to create executive-level summaries and trend reports.

Nice to have

• CPA certification.
• Knowledge of Excel macros.
• Experience leveraging AI tools and SAP.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work option with one remote day per week for eligible employees.
• Annual discretionary performance bonus.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• Fertility and family-forming assistance, wellbeing allowance, educational assistance, and mental health coaching or therapy.
• HSA and healthcare or dependent care FSAs, a 401(k) retirement plan, vacation, sick time, and personal days.