Innovation Baseball Partners
Finance & Business Intelligence Manager
Innovation Baseball Partners - Manager
CA · Remote
Financial/Data Analyst · Finance & Accounting
$125,000 - $145,000 / year
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Innovation Baseball Partners (“IBP”) is looking for a highly analytical, hands-on Finance & Business Intelligence Manager to help scale the business across multiple clubs and future expansion opportunities.
This role combines AI enabled analytics and reporting, FP&A and strategic finance. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building a board-ready forecast, researching a budget variance down to the transaction level, and rapidly building reporting solutions using modern AI-enabled and lightweight coding tools. We are looking for someone who takes ownership of the underlying data, understands how systems connect, and is willing to dig into details to identify issues, trends, and opportunities.
Responsibilities
Analytics & Reporting - The ideal candidate understands not only how to build dashboards and reports using AI development platforms, but also how the underlying data is generated, structured, validated, integrated, and automated across systems.
- Build and maintain KPI dashboards across ticketing, food & beverage, merchandise, sponsorship, labor, and marketing
- Reduce manual reporting by designing using agent-first AI development platforms such as anti-gravity.
- Analyze and reconcile data across multiple operational systems including ticketing, POS, ecommerce, accounting, CRM, and marketing platforms
- Own the integrity and reliability of operational and financial reporting; Investigate reporting inconsistencies and identify root-cause data issues
- Translate raw operational data into actionable business insights for club leadership and ownership
Systems and Process Implementation. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with modern systems and automation expertise, serving as a hands-on builder who enjoys implementing systems, automating workflows, and leveraging AI-enabled tools to continuously improve reporting quality, efficiency, and scalability across the organization
- Develop automated reporting workflows using AI-enabled tools, APIs, BI tools, spreadsheets, and vibe-coding platforms such as anti-gravity
- Lead implementation projects for operational and reporting systems including platforms such as Vivenu, Shopify, Square, CRM tools, and other business systems
- Coordinate cross-functional projects involving finance, ticketing, operations, marketing, and technology vendors
- Help establish scalable reporting standards and system processes across multiple clubs
- Continuously improve reporting speed, quality, automation, and usability across the organization
Financial Planning & Forecasting. The ideal candidate is naturally curious and detail-oriented, equally comfortable building long-range forecasts, researching transaction-level budget variances, and analyzing the operational drivers that impact revenue, profitability, and growth.
- Partner with club leadership to prepare annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
- Build monthly budget variance reporting with supporting operational analysis and transaction-level research where necessary to ownership and club leadership
- Support analysis of expansion opportunities, stadium projects, and new market analysis
- Perform pricing, attendance, and revenue sensitivity and other analysis as needed
Qualifications
- 4–8+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, analytics, investment banking, or related fields
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
- Experience building dashboards and operational reporting
- Experience using AI-enabled workflow tools, APIs, BI tools, or no-code / vibe-coding platforms such as Anti-Gravity
- Comfortable working directly with large datasets and reconciling underlying data
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Highly organized, intellectually curious, and willing to operate hands-on in a fast-moving environment
Bonus Points
- Sports, entertainment, hospitality, consumer, or multi-location operating experience
- Startup or growth-stage company experience
- Experience with ticketing, POS, ecommerce, or marketing analytics platform
- Experience with basic SQL, Python
Compensation
- Base Salary: $125,000 - $145,000 annually, depending on experience, qualifications, and geography.
- Benefits: Full package of benefits including paid time off, paid holidays, health insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance. Perks are getting to talk baseball as part of your day job - and game tickets and merch.
- Location: Remote, with preference for candidates able to spend time in California as needed
About IBP: Innovation Baseball (“IBP”) is an ownership group and operating company building a portfolio of independent minor league baseball teams. We believe in the magic of baseball as a force for good. The teams in our portfolio play high-quality baseball while making strong contributions to their communities, drawing from a spirit of innovation, entertainment, and civic pride.
Job Questions:
Briefly describe at least 3 reports / dashboards that you developed using AI-enabled tools. What was the business problem being addressed? what tools did you use? what was the underlying data? what measurable impact did your solution have?
Describe how you acquired a deep understanding of Financial Statements and/or other data sources?
List any system implementations that you have led or been involved with. What worked? What didn't work? What did you learn?
