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Group Head of Finance (Legend)

Genius Sports42 open roles

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Saint Helier, Jersey
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Your applicationOpen nowGroup Head of Finance (Legend)Genius Sports · Saint Helier, Jersey

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The posting

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. Learn more at l1.com.

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 Group Head of Finance, reporting directly to our Finance Director.

In this role you will lead a 25+ person, multi-location team spanning Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury and Payroll. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring someone who can operate comfortably at both strategic and detailed levels: setting the direction for the function while stepping into complex operational and technical challenges when required.

Following Legend's acquisition, the finance function is operating in an environment of increased complexity and change. A key part of your role will be to evolve Legend’s finance operating model to meet these demands by strengthening controls and accountability, standardising and automating processes, improving systems and data flows, and building a scalable organisation that is less dependent on individual knowledge or manual intervention.

You will lead through an established team of finance leaders, developing their capability and creating clear ownership across the function while maintaining high standards of delivery. You will also play a critical role in building effective relationships across Legend and the wider Genius Sports group, balancing the requirements of both while supporting the team through significant organisational change.

This role would suit an experienced finance leader who is energised by transformation and ambiguity and has a track record of leaving finance functions materially more scalable, controlled and effective than they found them.

In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.

Your Impact:

  • Lead Legend’s 25+ person, multi-location finance function across Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury and Payroll, creating clear accountability and ownership through the finance leadership team.
  • Assess and evolve Legend’s finance operating model, ensuring organisational structure, process ownership, systems, controls and ways of working can scale with the business and wider Genius Sports group requirements.
  • Lead end-to-end redesign and optimisation of core finance processes and systems, identifying opportunities to standardise, simplify and automate workflows while improving efficiency, controls and data quality.
  • Establish clear process ownership, SLAs, controls and KPIs, using data to identify performance gaps, bottlenecks and opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Lead through managers and team leads, building their capability and empowering them to take ownership while remaining hands-on in complex operational and technical issues when required.
  • Lead Legend’s finance function through post-acquisition integration, balancing the requirements of Legend and Genius Sports Group Finance and driving alignment across reporting, controls, systems, data and ways of working.
  • Make clear prioritisation and resource allocation decisions across BAU delivery and transformation initiatives, maintaining critical operations while progressing the highest-value improvements.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Legend and the wider Genius Sports group, confidently challenging where appropriate and translating complex financial or operational issues into clear business implications and decisions.

What You'll Bring:

  • ACA/ICAS/ACCA qualification with significant post-qualified experience in senior finance leadership roles.
  • Demonstrable experience leading a sizeable, multi-functional Finance team across multiple disciplines, locations and jurisdictions, with a track record of successfully leading through managers and functional leads.
  • Deep operational knowledge across core finance disciplines such as Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury and Payroll, with the technical credibility to challenge processes and diagnose complex operational issues.
  • A strong track record of transforming and scaling finance functions, including end-to-end process redesign, automation, systems improvement, controls, governance and clear process ownership, with evidence of delivering measurable improvements.
  • Strong finance systems capability and experience translating operational requirements into effective systems design; ERP implementation or significant transformation experience, including Workday, would be advantageous.
  • Experience leading teams through significant organisational change, ideally including acquisition integration or working within a larger parent/group finance structure, while maintaining engagement and addressing performance where required.
  • A hands-on leadership style combined with strong prioritisation and delegation skills, with experience balancing BAU delivery, transformation programmes and competing demands without becoming an operational bottleneck.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and commercial judgement, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders and the resilience to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

The Interview Process:

1st: Initial chat with our Talent Partner - 30 minutes via Zoom.

2nd: Interview with our Finance Director and Senior People Partner - 60 minutes via Zoom.

3rd: Take-home task and presentation – with our Finance Director, Head of FP&A and Executive Director - 60 minutes via Zoom or in our London office

Additional Information

Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team on [email protected], and we'll do all we can to support you.

For more information on how we use your data please visit https://l1.com/privacy-policy

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