Finance Manager

Job Summary

Roc Nation is a full-service entertainment company dedicated to creating, supporting, and elevating the world’s most impactful artists, athletes, and brands. We are seeking a Finance Manager to oversee the P&L and daily financial operations of our sports agency. This role involves hands-on responsibilities in accounting, billing, and reporting, working closely with agents, consultants, and leadership across all sports divisions.

About the Role

The Finance Manager will be responsible for managing the month-end close process, maintaining deferred revenue schedules, and ensuring accurate revenue recognition. They will also handle accounts receivable and billing, financial reporting, and budgeting and forecasting processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close process, including accruals and account reconciliations across all sports divisions
• Manage commission expense reconciliations, bonus tracking, and P&L reporting by sport, client, and deal type
• Manage the end-to-end invoicing cycle for 300+ clients on a bi-annual schedule, including invoice creation, distribution, and collections follow-up
• Track invoice status, outstanding balances, and payment receipts; maintain clean AR records at all times
• Coordinate directly with financial advisors/consultants on remittances, disputes, tax documentation (1099s), and reconciliations
• Notify agents and internal stakeholders upon receipt of client payments
• Prepare weekly cash flow schedules and support rolling forecasts
• Generate recurring financial reports segmented by sport, client, booking type, and revenue category
• Lead and support weekly and monthly AR review meetings across multiple divisions
• Aid in budgeting and expense tracking, including equipment spend and pre-draft player stipends
• Support union reporting requirements and maintain compliance documentation
• Enter and maintain athlete contracts, deal terms, and commission structures across internal systems (Airtable or equivalent)
• Track invoicing dates, revenue recognition schedules, and deal milestones for salaries, bonuses, brand deals, trading cards, and memorabilia agreements
• Support FP&A with evaluating project P&L’s (including T&E) and revenue pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 5–8 years of progressive accounting or finance experience, with strong command of AR, accrual accounting, reconciliations, and month-end close
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Oracle or similar ERP systems required
• Experience with Airtable or other workflow/database platforms strongly preferred
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage high-volume data with accuracy
• Strong communicator who can work fluidly with agents, advisors, and senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple deadlines independently

Preferred Background

• Prior experience in a sports agency, talent management, entertainment, or professional sports organization
• Familiarity with athlete contracts, NIL deals, commission structures, and sports marketing agreements
• Experience supporting union reporting or multi-entity financial environments

Benefits & Perks

• HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental, and mental health benefits for you and your family with access to a health care concierge and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
• YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and floating days
• CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match

Note

Roc Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas. We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Roc Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Roc Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact an HR Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Roc Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.