Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: London/Basingstoke/Hybrid

Salary:  £85,000 base, plus bonus

Start Date: March/April

About Us:

Hawk-Eye Innovations is a vital part of Sony's Sports Businesses. Our mission is to revolutionise sports with cutting-edge technology. Hawk-Eye delivers precision tracking, immersive broadcast, and flawless officiating, enhancing fan experiences worldwide.

About Hawk-Eye Finance:

Hawk-Eye Finance is comprised of two teams: Commercial Finance and Accounting. The Accounting team is responsible for all accounting processes and policies, including actuals analysis and insights. Commercial Finance focuses on forward-looking planning and analysis, including forecasting, budgeting, deal analysis, and general P&L partnering. 

About the Role:

The Senior Commercial Finance Manager role is in the Commercial Finance team, and will partner with some of our biggest business units globally. The role reports directly to Hawk-Eye's Finance Director, with regular interaction with Hawk-Eye and Sony Sports leadership. This is a new role, created to bring senior finance capabilities to the team and support Hawk-Eye’s growth. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Be the finance business partner to at least one of Hawk-Eye’s business units. Develop strong relationships with business teams. Actively collaborate with and challenge the business to achieve their objectives. Support decision making with sound, data-driven analysis and insights.

• Develop, implement, and scale regular reporting mechanisms to provide business partners and senior leaders with actionable insights. Identify and communicate trends, risks, and opportunities to improve results.

• Lead forecasting, budgeting, multi-year planning with business partners. Ensure plans are robust, well-analysed, and defensible. Lead collaborative end-to-end planning with business, including headcount and overheads; pipeline, sales and costs; and balance sheet positions. Contribute to global consolidation and presentations.

• Lead deal analysis, modelling, and new product business case creation. Build sound, clear models using modelling best practices. Implement a structured modelling and review process for new deals and new product development business cases with P&Ls.

• End-to-end finance ownership: from headcount planning to P&L forecasting to balance sheet monitoring. Take ownership of the numbers and challenge business partners to create and achieve robust, ambitious plans. 

• Perform ad-hoc analyses and deep dives. Initiate, own, and support cross-functional projects that support Hawk-Eye's growth, strategic goals, and finance continuous improvement initiatives.

• Mentor junior team members and be a positive influence on the team. Introduce best practices that work at scale. Be willing to introduce change and improvement. 

Examples of impactful work our team has delivered:

• Joint venture P&L modelling and steady-state reporting setup. Working closely with JV partners, Sony teams, and the business to model JV financials and integrate into wider business reporting.

• Post-merger integration. Support the integration of a newly acquired company, including incorporating revenue and costs into Hawk-Eye's financials; designing processes for ongoing financial management and visibility; deep dive financials and pipeline to understand opportunities and risks.

• Help implement a new FP&A system to improve the forecasting and planning processes, streamline data collection and analysis, and automate the finance workflow.

• Deep dive capacity and utilisation across P&Ls to find opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce cost.

• Build a detailed, multi-year model to forecast amortisation costs that factors in multiple, inter-linked variables, to help the business make better decisions about hiring and roadmap.

• Model profitability and ROI for Hawk-Eye’s products, factoring in monetisation plans and historical investment. Work with Product, Commercial to agree on product definitions, balancing with management decision making requirements. 

About You

We’re looking for a commercially-minded finance professional who has led finance functions for a business unit or similar.

You thrive in fast-paced, high-performing environments and are eager to help a growing team evolve and scale. You know how to implement best practices while enabling agility, and you’re ready to raise the bar for finance processes in a growth-stage company.

Skills and Attributes:

• Strong experience in modelling, analysis, and finance concepts (e.g., revenue recognition, investment analysis).

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts clearly.

• Proven ability to collaborate across multi-stakeholder and matrix-managed environments.

• Technical expertise and a willingness to embrace new challenges and share learnings.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Knowledge of SQL, AWS/cloud operations, or the sports entertainment industry.

Why Join Hawk-Eye?

This is a rare opportunity to work at the forefront of sports technology within a global, high-growth company. Your contributions will directly impact Hawk-Eye’s continued innovation and success, working alongside talented teams across the world.

Hawk-Eye Innovations is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.