Director, SAP S4 Business Process Lead - AP

Company Description

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

Role Purpose: 

The Director, SAP S4 Business Process Lead - AP is a critical role for NBCUniversal’s SAP S/4 HANA implementation, “Project Keystone.” This position will work with colleagues across the global NBCU Finance and Technology organizations, playing an active role in our finance digital transformation from design to deployment. This role will be an important part of ensuring inclusive design decisions, effective change management and substantial transformation. This role will support the Accounts Payable (AP) workstream, serving as  Controllership’s single point of contact and liaison and will align with the AP workstream on functional requirements and ensure business critical inputs are incorporated in the system design. You will also align between the SAP S/4 Core leger development and the ancillary AP systems integrations.   

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic thinking based on subject matter expertise (SME) for next generation ERP Finance Solutions data design and migration for AP processes.   
• Interface with horizontal workstreams (data, IT, Risk and Controls), the S/4 leadership team, System Integrators (SI) and more to capture & analyze business processes, workflows, policies, master data elements, and functionality related to the current ECC solution, to translate AP needs into the design of SAP S/4 solutions.  
• Eloquently translate finance functional requirements to technical teams for development. 
• Participate in fit to standard workshops and sessions around data migration design and validation. 
• Serve as a leader during fit-to-standard workshops and drive solutioning for established GAPs. Share and drive our fit-to-standard mission within the AP business processes. 
• Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can understand the solution being proposed. 
• Be a change agent for the SAP S/4 transformation. 
• Evaluate third party AP solutions as an alternative to custom development where SAP recommends.
• Identify what master and transactional data is required to support future AP business processes and operational/analytical reporting. 
• Represent and manage an experienced team that will support the AP workstream team as a cohesive unit. 
• Other duties and projects as assigned.  

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Finance or Information Systems preferred, along with 8+ years of relevant media industry experience. 
• 5+ years of experience with Accounts Payable.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional work experience in an SAP ecosystem preferred.   
• Demonstrated understanding of SAP business processes (e.g., FICO, Cash App, Billings).
• Solid understanding of agile project mgmt. and a record of accomplishment of on time delivery. 
• Experience in organizational change management.  
• A distinctive working knowledge of finance and data processes.  

Desired Characteristics:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills. 
• Solution driven and results oriented.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills within functional and technical areas.  
• Ability to represent NBCU with third party implementors with a collaborative mindset.