Manager, Finance Systems & Innovation

Company Description:

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

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About Us:

NBCUniversal Global Distribution is responsible for the sales and distribution of NBC Universal product to all forms of television and new media platforms in over 200 territories across the globe, its revenue portfolio exceeding $5Bn per year. This includes a rich library of more than 4,200 feature films and 110,000 television episodes, including current and classic titles, non-scripted programming, sports, news, long-form and short-form programming, and locally produced content from around the world. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is a division of Comcast NBCUniversal.

Overview:

The Manager role will join our systems finance team during an exciting time as we embark on a large subledger replacement project.  The individual will be an active owner and contributor of various accounting/finance projects to investigate challenging current financial operational pain points through system research, as well as partnering with varying levels of internal cross functional business stakeholders.  The new team member will be a self-starter who looks forward to solving puzzles, analyzing data, and recommending strategic system operational process improvements.  In addition, this role will work closely with the IT business support team to ensure consistent communication and a positive internal customer experience to all system users for current production open tickets. 

The individual must be extremely organized, customer focused, inquisitive, detailed, and have an accounting background to understand impact to financial statements.  This role is highly visible as it will have the unique responsibility of working closely with our cross divisional NBCU Finance family (Film, TV Networks, Peacock, and Production studios), as well as exposure to several global financial and technology leaders. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Become Finance support superuser for all Global TVD Financial systems (GTM, SAFE, CAFE, ARMR, MicroStrategy, JIRA, and SAP). Develop and maintain close relationship with all technology system leads.
• Partner with Operations, Revenue Assurance, and Controllership teams to understand Global TVD end to end scenarios for all deal types. 
• Provide recommendations for workaround solutions for open issues during the sunset period of the current system, to reduce wholesale logic enhancements prior to moving to the future target system.
• Support Finance team through ownership of data management updates of various systems which includes, but is not limited to, foreign currency rate uploads and content title management.
• Serve as member of the project team and assist in the exploration, requirements gathering, reconciliation / data-conversion, and testing phases of the future state Order to Cash system implementation.
• Support project team with data migration strategy.
• Continuously document challenging pain points throughout current tickets process to help with scenarios for future state testing.
• Ad hoc special projects as needed.

The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above descriptions and may be modified at any time by the Department or NBCUniversal.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, with a minimum of 3 years concentrated in Accounting and/or Finance and working with technology for system enhancements/projects
• Must have advanced level MS Excel experience

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be willing to work in Universal City, CA.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong analytical ability and detailed oriented
• A team player who can also work independently and is a self starter
• Demonstrated ability to deliver while working under time pressure on multiple assignments
• Ability to adapt and work well in a rapidly changing environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to liaison with various internal professionals
• Possesses high level of personal and professional integrity
• Proven problem-solving skills

This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.

This position is eligible for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $85,000-$115,000 (bonus eligible).

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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