Director, Finance

NBC - Miami, FL

Full-time - Manager

Miami, FL

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Finance Director is a pivotal role within NBCUniversal, specifically overseeing the financial operations for the Entertainment and streaming platforms. This includes managing the financial aspects of unscripted realities, live events, specials, and daily shows. The Finance Director will work closely with various business teams to ensure compliance with NBC Standards and Practices, while also maintaining accurate financial reporting. This position reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Content Finance and is responsible for managing a team of four, which includes one Finance Manager and three Senior Financial Analysts. In this role, the Finance Director will be tasked with maintaining accurate and transparent financial records, which encompass month-end close processes, invoicing, financial projections, tax incentives, greenlights, management reporting, variance analysis, scenario analysis, financial modeling, and auditing. The Director will ensure the accuracy of closing entries and provide necessary documentation for account reconciliations and other closing activities. Meeting financial planning deliverables on time, with accuracy and clear variance analysis, is crucial. The Finance Director will also maintain an active list of risks and opportunities, providing potential contingency plans as needed. This role requires a collaborative approach, working closely with key business operating leads, support functions such as HR and IT, finance teams, and content programming finance leads to discuss projects and anticipate staff and business needs. Additionally, the Director will review production budgets to secure project approvals, make recommendations for cost savings, and identify proper accounting and tax treatment. Regular reporting rhythms with operators will be established to review actuals versus projected spend, utilizing tools such as PowerPoint and Excel to help operational groups remain within approved budgets. The Finance Director will also work with treasury and tax departments to process production funding, ensuring accuracy and adherence to policies and guidelines. Aligning with Human Resources on production-related hiring and with Sourcing Vendor Management and Business & Legal Affairs for contractual obligations is also part of the role. This position is designed to support individual development needs, including training opportunities, and requires advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint. The Finance Director will align team goals with broader content finance and business deliverables, work with IT and other finance teams to integrate financial systems, and support the SVP Finance in ad hoc analysis and executive presentations.

Responsibilities

• 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 to discuss projects and anticipate staff and business needs
• Review production budgets to secure project approvals and make recommendations for cost savings
• Maintain regular reporting rhythm with operators to review actuals vs projected spend
• Work with treasury and tax departments to process production funding as needed
• Align with Human Resources on production-related hiring
• Align with Sourcing Vendor Management and Business & Legal Affairs for contractual obligations
• 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
• Support SVP Finance in ad hoc analysis and executive presentations

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)

Nice-to-haves

• 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