LATAM Finance Director

3 Weeks ago • All levels • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

Sporty is seeking a LATAM Finance Director to support its growth ambitions in the region. Reporting to the International Finance Director, this role involves shaping the overall financial direction, ensuring strong processes and controls, and scaling financial operations. The director will guide country managers and influence the business's future success. This is a results-driven position for an individual passionate about operational finance, committed to staying at the forefront of industry trends and building competitive advantage through intelligent finance and operational excellence.
Must have:
  • Own end-to-end finance function in LATAM.
  • Design, implement, and own financial processes and controls.
  • Manage relationships with regional banking partners.
  • Utilize technology to modernize finance delivery.
  • Lead finance for regional expansions.
  • Embed within business operations for data-driven decisions.
  • Create accurate budgets and financial projections.
  • Conduct cost-effective reviews.
  • Ensure compliance with local legislation.
  • Provide timely financial reporting.
  • Fluent in Portuguese and English.
  • Qualified Accountant with 10+ years experience.
  • Self-starter, decisive, and operates with urgency.
  • Startup mindset, willing to get hands dirty.
  • Prefers flat organizational structure.
Good to have:
  • Business competence in Spanish.
  • Exposure to high compliance industries like Gambling or Fintech.
  • Experience in media production.
Perks:
  • Quarterly and flash bonuses
  • Flexible working hours
  • Top-of-the-line equipment
  • Referral bonuses
  • 28 days paid annual leave
  • Annual company retreat
  • Highly talented, dependable co-workers
  • Payment via DEEL
  • Impactful role in small teams
  • Stability and security of a global business

Job Details

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in.

LATAM Finance Director
São Paulo City - Hybrid

As the Finance Director for the LATAM region at Sporty, you will be responsible for supporting our growth ambitions. Reporting to the International Finance Director, you will be responsible for shaping the overall financial direction, ensuring strong processes and controls, and scaling financial operations. 

Supporting, guiding and working very closely with country managers, you will have a real impact on the business, helping to shape its future direction and success. 

As a results-driven individual who is motivated by success and passionate about operational finance, you must be committed to staying at the forefront of industry trends, and building a competitive advantage through intelligent finance and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Own the end to end finance function in LATAM. You will join a small finance team member in the region, but will be expected to identify and recruit additional financial resources

Design, implement and own all financial processes and controls. Constantly review and refine these to ensure they operate at optimal levels

Manage relationships with regional banking partners, expanding access to financial services as required

Utilise technology and external services to modernise the way the finance function is delivered. Do not do things simply because that is the way they have always been done

Be the finance lead for regional expansions into new territories, verticals, and acquisitions

Embed yourself within the operations of the business and develop a culture of decision making through the use of financial data and analysis

Create accurate, well-considered and business owned budgets. Identify trends and generate detailed financial and operational projections in order to develop reliable P&L and cash flow estimates

Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-effective opportunities to manage the Company’s day to day operations

Stay up to date and ensure full compliance with local audit, legal, tax, secretarial and other legislation in a high risk, complex environment

Provide valuable, relevant, timely and business focused financial reporting, performed both on a periodic and ad hoc basis

Required

Fluent in Portuguese and English, and confident to communicate in both written and verbal formats. Business competence in Spanish is beneficial
Qualified Accountant with 10+ years experience, which should include exposure to high compliance industries such as Gambling or Fintech. Experience in media production is a plus
A self starter who works hard, makes decisions quickly and operates with urgency
Has a startup mindset, willing to get their hands dirty. Type A personality who thrives in a fast paced, high performance environment
Prefers a flat organisational structure, to engage with all levels of employees, and collaborate with a variety of different company functions. 

Benefits

Quarterly and flash bonuses
Flexible working hours
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
28 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat once per year
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system 
Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users
2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty 
3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation 
4. Be Responsible 
5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty 
6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy 
7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability 
8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Working at Sporty

The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.
Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results. 

As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. 

We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.

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