Director, Finance Systems
Position Summary
WME Group is seeking an experienced Director, Finance Systems to lead the strategy, delivery, optimization, and support of the company's global finance technology ecosystem, with a primary focus on SAP S/4HANA/ECC and related finance applications.
Key Responsibilities
SAP & Finance Systems Ownership
Lead the strategy, support, optimization, and enhancement of SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and related finance applications.
Oversee adjacent boundary systems, integrations, reporting platforms, and internally developed applications that support finance operations.
Support SAP transformation and modernization efforts while ensuring solutions align with business objectives, controls, compliance requirements, and technology standards.
Finance Process Excellence
Partner with Finance and Accounting stakeholders to optimize SAP-enabled processes across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, treasury, tax, intercompany, close, consolidations, planning, reporting, and analytics.
Drive process standardization, controls, data quality, automation, and simplification across SAP and related finance systems.
Program & Project Delivery
Lead system initiatives from planning through deployment, stabilization, and ongoing improvement.
Manage timelines, budgets, vendors, system integrators, internal resources, governance, prioritization, releases, and change management.
Integration & Data Strategy
Oversee integration and data flows between SAP, boundary systems, banking platforms, reporting solutions, data platforms, and other enterprise applications.
Partner with architecture and analytics teams to strengthen data governance, reporting visibility, system reliability, and application scalability.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
15+ years of experience managing enterprise finance applications, ERP platforms, or application teams.
Deep experience with SAP S/4HANA/ECC and finance processes across core SAP modules and related systems.
Experience leading system implementations, upgrades, transformation initiatives, vendors, consultants, system integrators, and global stakeholders.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, team leadership, and executive presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation programs.
Experience within talent agencies, sports representation, entertainment, media, licensing, royalties, commissions is a big plus.
Knowledge of SAP FI/CO, SD, AR/AP, reporting, planning, analytics, and related SAP finance capabilities.
Experience using AI, workflow automation, or emerging technologies to improve finance operations.