Director, SAP S4 Business Process Change - RTR

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

Overview 

The Director Business Transformation – RTR 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 provide support in the Record to Report (RTR) workstream, ensuring functional requirements and business critical inputs are incorporated in the system design.  This role will work closely with solution integrators (SIs) and SAP S4 Business RTR Process Lead to gain a deep understanding of suggested RTR SAP best practices and evaluate in partnership with the controllership GPOs where we can adapt current processes using a fit to standard approach

Responsibilities

• Strong candidate will have a deep operational understanding of RTR activities in a large complex enterprise.
• Provide strategic thinking based on subject matter expertise (SME) with SAP S/4 functionality, data design and migration for RTR processes.
• Interface with horizontal workstreams (data, IT, Risk and Controls), System Integrators (SI) and more to capture & analyse business processes, workflows, policies, master data elements, and functionality related to the current ECC solution, to translate RTR 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
• Participate during fit-to-standard workshops and drive solutioning for established GAPs
• 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 solutions as an alternative to custom development where SAP recommends.

Other responsibilities as directed 

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Information Systems and a minimum of 8 years of experience. 
• 5+ years of relevant media, direct-to-consumer or entertainment industry experience 
• 5+ years of professional work experience in an SAP ecosystem preferred.  
• Demonstrated understanding of SAP business processes
• Strong understanding of agile project mgmt. and a record of accomplishment of on time delivery 
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience in organizational change management 
• 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 
• A distinctive working knowledge of finance and data processes  

Additional Requirements:

• Must be willing to work in New York, NY.
• 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 l