Controller

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

The Controller leads all accounting and finance activity for this growing franchise and its related entities. The role oversees the Accounting team, its processes, and its tools to ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and utility of the organization’s financial records, reports, and analyses. The successful candidate will provide financial acumen and influence in decision-making processes across the company. This individual is a critical thought partner as the organization works to addresses the challenges inherent in a growing business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Lead, manage and mentor team members working in accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, ticket accounting, fixed asset, and month and year-end close.
• Oversee the preparation of timely monthly reporting packages that include budget to actual results at both the consolidated and department levels and deliver the related reports on a predictable and consistent schedule.
• Oversee the administration of the Company’s payroll and variable compensation plans for its salaried and commissioned employees, ensuring the features of the plans are consistent with Company’s recordkeeping structures, can be efficiently administered, and support the Company’s business goals.
• Assess the adequacy of the Company’s financial infrastructure and internal controls, researching, creating, revising and maintaining processes and tools that will serve the current and future needs of the organization.
• Lead the company’s compliance with its external reporting requirements, including its annual GAAP audit, debt compliance, and its routine reporting to the WNBA.
• Partner with teams and functions across the organization to incorporate financial history and relevant metrics into its business analyses and decision-making processes.
• Together with outside tax counsel, lead the Company’s federal, state and local tax planning and compliance activities.
• Liaise with and leverage external subject matter experts, including the WNBA, banking, accounting, legal, tax, and insurance.
• Oversee the financial activities for the Company’s related foundation, ensuring the objectives determined by its Board are executed, the entity’s 501(c)3 status is maintained, and its activities are adequately segregated and reported from the Company’s commercial endeavors.
• Oversee the financial activities for the Company’s related for-profit entity, ensuring accurate recordkeeping and financial reporting.

Additional Responsibilities

Requirements : Education

Related Experience

Certificates, Licenses, or Registrations

Competencies

Skills Required

Technical Skills

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is infrequently required to lift and / or move up to 5 pounds. The employee is regularly required to use hands for typing, sorting and moving documents. Occasionally required to climb ladders, sit, stoop, kneel, squat, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Force 10 Hoops, LLC DBA Seattle Storm is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, or gender identity / expression.

This organization participates in E-Verify.

About the Storm :

Force 10 Hoops, LLC DBA Seattle Storm is a storied franchise in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), proudly boasting four WNBA Championships to its name. Our rich history and commitment to excellence have made us a force to be reckoned with in women's professional basketball. The Seattle Storm stands as a symbol of dedication, determination, and empowerment, both on and off the court. In 2024 we opened our Center for Basketball Performance which houses our team, front office and basketball operations staff.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees. Benefits include : Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, AD&D, Long Term Disability, Transportation Account, Employee Assistance Program, 401k plus vacation, sick and holidays. As a WNBA team we also offer League-related discounts, game tickets, a great Seattle work location and a team-focused environment.