Group Head of Finance (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.

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.

• 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