Business System Analysis Manager

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. 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.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

NBCU has deployed SAP to run financial, logistics, and HR processes. SAP BPC is deployed to run the planning processes at an enterprise and division level. NBCU currently has 16 BPC solutions to support financial planning processes. NBCU is also on a Finance transformation journey that will result in most of the planning solutions moving to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

The Business System Analysis Manager will lead the support & delivery of planning solutions within the FP&A Studios portfolio, which includes ongoing business as usual support as well as solution improvements. Additionally, the role will be responsible for supporting other SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) reporting solutions within the Studios organization.

This role is considered a critical role in Enterprise Applications, and the job also requires working flexible hours to support accounting/planning users globally.

Exclusive List of Job Duties:

• Applies unique or broad expertise to unearth and solve broad challenges. Decisions can have a substantial impact on the area of contribution
• Breaks down complex problems; enhances and develops new methods, systems, and/or tools
• Implement solutions to solve business problems in the area of financial planning, headcount planning, and operational planning (driver-based & allocations) using SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud
• Configure processes in SAP BPC using EPM skills and computations
• Understanding of BADI processes and providing functional requirements to the developer as needed
• Review & participate in solution build and test activities on BPC and SAC implementations, rollouts, and upgrade projects; may be asked to step in to conduct project solution architect activities from time to time
• Participate in the solution roadmap for BPC and SAC projects
• Collaborate with peers in the Technology team to apply best practices to integrate between SAP applications (ERP, BW, DSP, BDC, AOE, SAC, and BPC)
• Interacts with multiple cross-functional peers and teams to execute work agreements and plans, maintains relationships with internal/external customers and partners
• Become the trusted voice of the Technology team with other IT groups in envisioning success
• Become the trusted internal advisor for key business users
• Assist in troubleshooting production support issues
• Assist with other tasks as assigned
• Enhance expertise for products relevant to the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) business, by keeping abreast of literature, participating in web/seminars, industry and vendor (SAP or other) events as necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business from an accredited institution or equivalent
• 8+ years of SAP BPC hands-on experience, leading up to Lead Architect level work in an IT capacity, implementing planning solutions of high complexity and large scale
• This role requires prior hands-on experience in implementing BPC as a technical/functional analyst with EPM skills to develop templates, configuration of new environments/models, dime