Financial Accountant

🏢 Geniussports · 📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

 

 

 

About Legend

Legend is a world-leading sports and gaming media network, reaching hundreds of millions of visitors a year. We're now part of Genius Sports. Together, we’re combining Legend’s audience, brands and product expertise with Genius Sports’ real-time data, technology and capabilities to create the next generation of fan-facing media and advertising

Here at Legend, we're building next-level player experiences. With 20+ years of proven success we’re the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.

Our people are our edge. 600+ sharp, ambitious Legends across 22+ countries who move fast, learn quickly and win together. Here growth isn’t a perk, it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If you’re ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it, this is where you’ll thrive.

The Role

 

Legend is hiring a Financial Accountant, reporting to our Senior Financial Reporting Manager in Holbern, London.

The Financial Reporting team sits at the heart of our global Finance function, ensuring the business has accurate, reliable and insightful financial information while continually improving how we report, analyse and use data.

As a Financial Accountant, you'll take ownership across key areas of the financial reporting cycle, working across the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow to ensure our financial outputs are accurate, well-controlled and delivered to a high standard.

Alongside strong accounting fundamentals, we're looking for someone who is naturally analytical and enjoys finding better ways of doing things. You'll use data, automation and process improvement to make our reporting more efficient, reduce manual work and improve the quality of financial insight available to the business.

This is an opportunity to combine hands-on financial reporting with analysis and continuous improvement within a fast-paced, multinational listed business undergoing significant growth and change.

Your Impact:

 

  • Take ownership of key areas of the monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reporting cycle, ensuring accurate and timely
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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessors focus heavily on sports data ecosystem fluency, B2B enterprise monetization scale, and real-time operational agility.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating sports tech purely as a consumer media play rather than a B2B data infrastructure business
  • 2. Lack of awareness regarding international regulatory landscapes in sports betting
  • 3. Failing to demonstrate cross-functional leadership between product, engineering, and sports federation stakeholders
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