Manager, Finance Systems & Innovation

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.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') 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.

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.

About Us:

NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution is responsible for the licensing and distribution of NBCUniversal product to all forms of television and new media platforms in the U.S., Canada and in over 200 territories internationally. NBCUniversal’s content portfolio includes a vast and diverse library of more than 6,500 feature films and 170,000 television episodes, including current and classic titles, non-scripted programming, kids, sports, news, long-form and short-form programming from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Universal Television, UCP, Universal International Studios, Sky Studios, NBC Late Night properties, DreamWorks Animation, Telemundo, and more, as well as locally produced content from around the world. Global TV Distribution is a division of Comcast NBCUniversal.

Job Description

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 positive customer experience for 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, CAFÉ, ARMR, MicroStrategy, JIRA, and SAP). Develop and maintain close relationships 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 a member of the project team and assist in the exploration, requirements gathering, reconciliation / data-conversion, and testing phases of the f