Consolidation & Reporting Manager (12 Month FTC)

<div class="content-intro"><h2 class="job-details__description-header text-color-secondary font-family-secondary" data-bind="i18n: 'job-details.employer-description-title'">About Us</h2> <div class="job-details__description-content basic-formatter" data-bind="html: pageData().job.corporateDescription"> <div>Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. </div> </div> <p> </p></div><p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Role Summary</strong></p> <p>Fanatics Collectibles is seeking an experienced Consolidation & Reporting Manager to support the International Finance team during the implementation of Oracle ERP.</p> <p>This is a hands-on role supporting the international consolidation, month-end close and reporting processes while also providing accounting and reporting support throughout the Oracle implementation.</p> <p>The successful candidate will work closely with the International Finance team and support the Oracle solution design, account and reporting mappings, data migration, testing, reconciliation, go-live and post-implementation stabilisation activities.</p> <p>The role will work across our international entities and collaborate closely with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Systems, the Oracle implementation team and local finance teams.</p> <p><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Consolidation and reporting</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support the International Finance team with the monthly close and reporting process.</li> <li>Review entity submissions, consolidation journals, intercompany balances and eliminations, foreign currency translation and consolidated results.</li> <li>Assist with the technical upload of local reporting packages into FCC, including validating submitted data and resolving upload or mapping issues.</li> <li>Support the investigation and resolution of consolidation and reporting variances.</li> <li>Help ensure that reporting submissions are complete, accurate and delivered in line with group deadlines.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate consolidation and reporting processes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Oracle ERP implementation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support the design and implementation of Oracle ERP accounting, close, consolidation and reporting processes.</li> <li>Participate in Oracle design sessions and help translate International Finance requirements into practical system solutions.</li> <li>Review proposed process designs and configurations to ensure they meet international accounting, reporting and statutory requirements.</li> <li>Support the design, preparation and validation of:</li> <ul> <li>chart-of-accounts mappings;</li> <li>legal entity and reporting structures;</li> <li>financial statement and management reporting hierarchies;</li> <li>intercompany mappings and elimination rules;</li> <li>legacy system-to-Oracle mappings;</li> <li>cost centre, department, product and other reporting dimensions; and</li> <li>accounting rules and close processes.</li> </ul> <li>Support data cleansing, migration and validation, including reconciling opening balances and historical data between legacy systems and Oracle.</li> <li>Develop finance test scenarios and support system integration testing and user acceptance testing.</li> <li>Perform detailed testing of accounting entries, close processes, consolidation outputs, reports and system interfaces.</li> <li>Document test results, raise and track defects, and work with the project team to resolve identified issues.</li> <li>Assess the accounting and reporting impact of system or process gaps and support the development of practical solutions.</li> <li>Assist with the preparation of standardised close procedures, reporting