Director of Finance

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Job Description

The Finance Director is the finance lead for Entertainment and streaming platforms including unscripted realities, live events, specials, and daily shows. This role works with the various business teams to ensure adherence to policies, procedures, and practices in compliance with NBC Standards and Practices, and to maintain accurate financial reporting. This role reports into the SVP Content Finance and manages a team of four other employees, including one Finance Manager and three Sr. Financial Analysts.

Job Duties:

• Maintain accurate and transparent financial records including for month-end close, invoicing, financial projections, tax incentives, greenlights, management reporting, variance analysis, scenario analysis, financial modeling and auditing
  • Ensure accuracy of closing entries and provide supporting documentation for account reconciliations and other closing activities
  • Meet financial planning deliverables on time, with accuracy and clear variance analysis
  • Maintain an active list of risks and opportunities and provide potential contingency plans
  • Review, approve and ensure payments are performed timely based on contractual obligations
• Work closely with key business operating leads (ie Director and VP of Production Management), support functions (HR, O&T, Legal, IT, Sourcing Vendor Management), finance teams (Controllership, FP&A) and content programming finance lead to discuss projects and anticipate staff and business needs
  • Review production budgets to secure project approvals (ie greenlights), make recommendations for cost savings by reviewing benchmarks and relevant comparisons, and identify proper accounting and tax treatment
  • Maintain regular reporting rhythm with operators to review actuals vs projected spend (using Powerpoint and Excel) and help operational groups remain within approved budgets
  • Work with treasury and tax departments to process production funding as needed, ensuring accuracy and following corresponding policy and guidelines
  • Align with Human Resources on production-related hiring to be able to plan appropriately and adhere to compliance standards
  • Align with Sourcing Vendor Management and Business & Legal Affairs for contractual obligations related to business areas
  • Align with O&T on production needs, accurate spend and reporting
  • Collaborate across Telemundo, NBC Entertainment, Cable and/or NBC News Group to align processes and projects as needed
• Manage entertainment production finance team according to business and finance priorities
  • Support individual development needs including training opportunities
  • Develop advanced Excel and Powerpoint skills
  • Align team goals with broader content finance and business deliverables
• Work with IT and other finance teams to integrate financial systems that help streamline manual processes
  • Vista system transition to new legal entity
  • Compass asset management onboarding to own end-to-end realities and specials accounting and forecasting process
  • Leveraging BPC Reports for reporting and analysis
• Support SVP Finance in ad hoc analysis and executive presentations

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum of five years’ experience within Finance/Accounting field
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related fields
• Minimum of two years’ experience as a people manager
• Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Experienced in using financial/accounting software and applications
• Production Finance experience
• Written and verbal proficiency in English and Spanish
• Must be available to work during early mornings, evenings, holidays, and weekends (when necessary for show production needs)

Desired Characteristics:

• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
• Excellent communication, leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Desire to improve processes and elevate status quo
• Team player and self-motivated
• Customer service oriented

Additional Requirements:

• This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
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