Financial Controller, Indy Eleven Professional Soccer

My name is Erin Weesner and I am the financial controller for Indy Eleven professional soccer in Indianapolis. And I am responsible for basically all things financial for Indy Eleven. I prepare monthly financial statements, I make sure everyone gets paid, I'd prepare budgets, forecasting, cash flow forecasting, basically review contracts and see what impact they have on the organization. The work load is pretty balanced throughout the year, it may be different types of work throughout the year, but it's pretty busy year round; whenever the season is over, there is wrap up work and preparation for the next year in putting budgets together and starting to plan for the next season, so it never really dies down. Right, so basically every day start with looking at the bank statement and figuring out what bills need to be paid that week and if it's a payroll week, making sure everyone's time cards are in. And if it's the beginning of the month, we have financials to prepare for the month prior. And the middle of the month might slow down just a little bit but that's the time to kinda catch up and make sure that everything is in place and everyone's things getting turned in on time, so that we can prepare to start over the next month and do it all over again. So, we look at the expenses each department is in charge of, their budget, so what I do is look at what they have turned in and said that they have actually spent and then compare it to what they projected or budgeted to make sure nothing is missing. So each month there are some pretty routine things that happen each month or even with when we're in season, there'll be different events that happen as a part of the game days, so just making sure that understanding what's going on in the organization that has been captured in the financial statements. The financial statements I feel is kind of a, it paints a picture with how the company is doing using numbers instead of paint. So on game day, we get to the stadium about two, three hours in advance and I start out in the box office and just make sure that we have people working the windows, making sure that cash is there, that the computers are set up to actually sell tickets and print tickets and just be their kind of oversight and fill in whenever there's someone missing. Really, it's a small organization, so everyone is expected to pitch in and help out when needed. It's all hands on deck, pretty much, whenever you have a smaller organization.