Sr. Manager, Accounting & Reporting

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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Universal Products & Experiences Overview:

Universal Products & Experiences (UP&E) globally drives the expansion and elevation of NBCUniversal’s iconic collection of brands, intellectual properties, characters, and stories based on the company’s extensive portfolio of properties created by Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. The division executes this through innovative physical and digital products, engaging retail and product experiences across our expansive global theme park destinations (for both owned and 3rd party IP), location-based venues, e-commerce product platforms, and retailers around the world. Along with global brand strategy and creative, UP&E’s three lines of business include Consumer Products, Games and Digital Platforms, as well as Theme Parks Products & Retail. UP&E is a division of Universal Parks & Resorts, part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. https://www.universalproductsexperiences.com/

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Job Description

Summary:

As a key member of the Universal Products & Experiences (UP&E) Controllership team, the Senior Manager, Accounting & Reporting will be responsible for accounting processes, controls, systems and reporting that ensures controllership objectives are met to world class standards across UP&E (Consumer Products, Digital Games, and Franchise Management). This position reports to the UP&E Director of Accounting & Reporting and partners with Finance and Accounting across the US and multiple international territories. This role exists within a fast-paced environment having the opportunity for growth within the company.

Responsibilities include:

• Timely management of monthly and quarterly close responsibilities and financial reporting for UP&E revenue and related accounts (i.e., accounts receivable, and deferred revenue), organize timelines & deliverables and manage overall financial statement account review
• Oversee technical accounting areas including revenue recognition, bad debt reserve, franchise allocation
• Identify subsystem enhancements to the Revenue / Royalty subsystem and Partner with IT to request and implement these enhancements
• Partner with Legal and Category on contract review and analysis.  Provide commentary to stakeholders on accounting implications of deal terms
• Partner with FP&A to ensure transparency and accuracy in the quarterly earned royalty accrual process by providing value-add analysis and insight to reconcile forecast to actuals
• Provide auditors with relevant underlying support related to audits of revenue and related accounts
• Supervise and review the work of one Senior Financial Analysts; provide coaching as appropriate
• Partner with offshore team to oversee tasks, and review work product; enhance and innovate with offshore team to standardize and centralize tasks
• Review and approve journal entries, and related support/analysis; prepare journal entries as needed
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