Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Finance Solutions

About the position

Senior Director for SAP Financial Solutions serves a crucial function at the intersection of technology and finance business partners, responsible for overseeing the technical aspects of SAP financial systems within Technology & Operations. Their primary focus is to ensure that the SAP solutions effectively support financial operations and contribute to strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Assist project team, key stakeholders, and management to prioritize business partner requirements and develop and maintain detailed project plans using standard tools.
• Help determine resource roles needed and work with management to secure project team members.
• Effectively assist in leading by influence and work in a matrix/cross functional (BU Champions).
• Assist in establishing and coordinating the project plan for migration of the project into production.
• Assist with developing and defining new and improved workflow and initiatives.
• Help provide training and training materials for new processes.
• Work with key stakeholders to define and document communication plan.
• Assist management with special assignments, such as evaluating vendors, gathering/evaluating consultant proposals, or other responsibilities as requested.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand team needs and dependencies to better align business processes.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and design solutions in SAP BRIM and OTC that align with business objectives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders regarding SAP BRIM and OTC operations.
• Manage relationships with software vendors, service providers, and other external parties.
• Engage internal stakeholders (like finance, sales, and customer service departments) to ensure the IT solutions align with business needs and deliver value.
• Create comprehensive and meaningful strategy presentations for senior executives.
• Develop comprehensive performance analysis of business processes and review ways of improvement.
• Actively participate in stakeholder meetings with the goal of understanding all major projects and initiatives planned.
• Manage a team of IT professionals, including hiring, training, and mentoring staff to ensure they can meet their objectives.
• Promote a culture in accordance to WBD guiding principles, and of continuous improvement and professional development within the team.
• Develop and manage the IT budget related to OTC and the SAP BRIM applications, ensuring that expenditures deliver optimal ROI.
• Provide regular reports to executive management on the status, progress, and outcomes of IT initiatives related to Financial solutions and SAP applications.
• Manage the budget for technology investments in SAP Financial Solutions.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and standards that affect OTC processes and financial systems.
• Assess and mitigate risks related to the financial systems through assessment of application and general IT controls.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand team needs and dependencies to better align business processes, and articulate relevant, logical options for solving operational issues.
• Develop and execute a methodology to evaluate, prioritize and monitor the success of the business processes.
• Create comprehensive and meaningful strategy presentations for senior executives.
• Ability to build a framework and drive development through dynamic business analytics tools and dashboards for ongoing business planning and goal measurement through KPIs.

Requirements

• 2+ years of prior experience in a related field (media, entertainment, business development or streaming services industry experience a plus).
• 10-12+ years of hands-on implementation or operational experience with SAP Financial solutions.
• 5-7+ years of transactional processing and operations assurance experience.
• Undergraduate degree required in computer science, mathematics or business sciences.
• Project management for SAP implementations or enhancements.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing financial models in Excel AND facilitating business discussions.
• Expert user of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to prepare all documents, presentations, graphs, briefings, and worksheets.
• A passion for accuracy and translating insights into a compelling narrative; able to maintain a balance between the details and the larger picture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Superb business relationship building and management skills.
• Work collaboratively with small teams and across multiple teams.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently.

Nice-to-haves

• Graduate degree preferred not required in computer science, mathematics, or business sciences.
• Post-graduate work experience in a related field (entertainment or entertainment).
• Knowledge of and passion for media, entertainment, and technology industries (including key players, growth trends and drivers, new media models, industry structure, etc.).
• Familiarity with streaming and similar products/services.
• Experience working in a national or global company.
• Some visualization tool knowledge would be helpful (i.e. Tableau, Power BI).
• Comfortable in working in highly iterative and somewhat unstructured environment.