-: 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.