Commercial Finance Manager, Technology

Location: Hybrid; you’ll spend 2-3 days per week at our office in London or Basingstoke, as well as working from home.

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Start Date: ASAP

About Us:

Hawk-Eye Innovations is a vital part of Sony Sports Technology, whose mission is to revolutionise sports with cutting-edge technology. Hawk-Eye delivers precision tracking, immersive broadcast, and flawless officiating, enhancing fan experiences worldwide.

About Hawk-Eye Finance:

Hawk-Eye Finance comprises two teams: Commercial Finance and Accounting. The Accounting team is responsible for all accounting transactions, processes, reporting, and policies governance, including actuals analysis and reporting insights. Commercial Finance focuses on forward-looking planning and analysis, including forecasting, budgeting, deal analysis, and general business partnering.

About the Role:

The Commercial Finance Manager role is in the Commercial Finance team, and will partner with our CTO and Technology Organisation. The role reports directly to Hawk-Eye's Finance Director, with regular interaction with Hawk-Eye and Sony Sports leadership. This role has real P&L impact, as R&D is one of our biggest areas of spend in the business.

Responsibilities include: 

• Business partnering: Act as the trusted finance partner to the CTO and technology leadership team, providing financial insight to support short- and long-term decision-making. Own the financials for Tech - from headcount to AI and tooling spend; to capex modelling and strategy; to investment tracking and ROI reporting.

• Budgeting & forecasting: Own the annual budget, monthly re-forecasts, and long-range planning for the technology organisation.

• Headcount planning: Partner on workforce planning and reporting, given the people-intensive nature of and R&D organisation.

• Financial infrastructure build-out: Build reporting infrastructure and mechanisms from the ground up, including: headcount reporting and planning, capitalisation and tax credit models, product P&Ls, R&D investment frameworks and ROI models, among others.

• Reporting & analysis: Deliver regular management reporting, variance analysis, and KPIs relevant to technology (e.g., cost per project, delivery effici