Financial Control & Automation Analyst
Sportradar is looking for a technically-minded finance professional to join the Corporate FP&A team. The role focuses on building the digital infrastructure required to automate the month-end reporting cycle, consolidate financial logic, and eliminate manual data processing.
The successful candidate will act as a link between high-speed commercial growth and financial accuracy requirements. The position involves developing a deep understanding of existing processes and reporting rhythms to streamline and automate workflows effectively.
- Identify and streamline repetitive manual activities across the month-end cycle, including accruals, revenue-share calculations, cost reconciliations, and reporting processes.
- Use tools like Power Automate, Python, Power BI, or Abacum to automate data flows between the ERP, Jira, and reporting layers.
- Support the improvement of approval and control processes by embedding financial logic and governance directly into systems and workflows to enforce budgetary compliance.
- Improve the consolidated month-end cycle by building diagnostic tools that flag variances in real-time.
- Help build automated audit agents that cross-reference contract data with actual spend to identify leakages or accrual risks.
- Support and manage month-end close activities across operating expenditure, including the preparation and review of invoices, accruals, and related system entries.
- Serve as the primary technical contact for external auditors and the Global Controller, translating complex commercial models into audited financial actuals.
- Define and enforce data contracts between Accounting and FP&A to ensure that actuals arrive clean, mapped, and ready for analysis.
- Support and strengthen SOX controls and audit processes by improving the reliability, traceability, and consistency of financial data and reporting workflows.
- Proficiency in SQL (Redshift/BigQuery) or a proven ability to learn technical data structures quickly (required).
- Ability to pull and join data and build visualizations in Power BI (required).
- Experience with or a strong desire and proven ability to learn n8n, Python, or other workflow automation tools (required).
- Experience with modern FP&A platforms such as Abacum, Pigment, or Anaplan and ERP environments (required).
- Advanced Excel skills for prototyping logic (required).
- 1-3 years of experience in Financial Control, FP&A, or Finance Operations (required).
- Background in a high-growth tech, sports data, or betting environment (nice-to-have).
- Business, Finance, or other appropriate degree (required).
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.