Senior Director, Record to Report

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Record to Report function, setting the strategic direction for R2R operations across Versant.
• Own the future-state R2R operating model, including centralized general accounting operations, business segment support, shared services, and outsourced delivery.
• Drive the continued evolution of R2R roles, responsibilities, governance, and service delivery expectations in alignment with Versant’s needs.
• Lead R2R readiness for major transformation initiatives, including ERP modernization, automation, process redesign, and further centralization of accounting activities.
• Partner with Controllership leadership, Finance, Treasury, and Technology to design scalable, standardized, and controlled R2R processes.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for R2R matters involving business segments, Controllership leaders, external providers, and executive stakeholders.
• Oversee end-to-end R2R operations, including journal entries, account reconciliations, close coordination in revenue and costs of revenue related accounts, intercompany, fixed assets, cash and treasury accounting, compensation and benefits accounting, edit checks, suspense clearing, and reporting support.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close execution in partnership with Corporate Accounting, Consolidations, Technical Accounting, and business-unit Controllership teams.
• Provide executive oversight of commitments to close calendars, journal entry workflows, reconciliation quality, reporting packages, and issue resolution.
• Ensure accounting operations support is aligned to business segment needs across TV Networks, Digital, Corporate Accounting, Central Accounting, and other evolving Versant business areas.
• Lead service delivery governance for outsourced and offshore resources, including performance management, issue escalation, workload planning, and accountability for service commitments.
• Ensure continuity and scalability of R2R services as Versant centralizes additional activities and supports potential growth, acquisitions, or structural changes.

Standards, Controls & Compliance

• Own the R2R control environment, ensuring processes are SOX-compliant, audit-ready, transparent, and consistently executed.
• Ensure adherence to accounting policies, internal controls, close governance, reconciliation standards, and documentation requirements.
• Partner with Technical Accounting, Risk & Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit, Treasury, Tax, Legal, and Corporate Controllership to align R2R execution with policies and evolving standards.
• Oversee governance of journal entry and account reconciliation controls.
• Establish and maintain standard operating procedures, playbooks, escalation protocols, and control documentation across R2R teams and providers.
• Strengthen accountability for control performance across internal teams and outsourced providers.

Performance & Transformation

• Define, monitor, and improve R2R performance through KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, scorecards, and governance forums.
• Drive operational improvements that enhance close timeliness, reconciliation quality, journal entry accuracy, productivity, transparency, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Lead standardization of R2R processes across business units, regions, and providers.
• Identify and execute automation opportunities across reconciliations, journal entries, workflow management, reporting, and exception resolution.
• Oversee adoption and optimization of BlackLine, Promenta, SAP ECC, and future ERP or close-management platforms.
• Address manual process challenges, including opportunities related to cash accounting, treasury / banking activity, transaction matching, high-risk reconciliations, and centralized workload expansion.
• Lead root cause analysis for recurring issues and drive sustainable process and control improvements.
• Support the transition from legacy or transitional processes to scalable standalone Versant capabilities where applicable.

BPO, Shared Services & Governance

• Own executive-level governance of outsourced R2R delivery, including Accenture and other third-party providers.
• Ensure outsourced teams meet agreed SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, control requirements, and service expectations.
• Evaluate provider performance and recommend structural, staffing, process, or technology changes to improve outcomes.
• Build strong, accountable partnerships with service providers while ensuring Versant retains appropriate governance, oversight, and process ownership.

People Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing global R2R organization, including internal Versant staff and outsourced/onshore/offshore resources.
• Build organizational capability to support expanded scope, greater centralization, ERP transformation, and future-state accounting operations.
• Attract, retain, coach, and develop talent capable of delivering operational excellence and transformation.
• Provide leadership to senior managers, directors, managers, and process leads across business-unit and central accounting teams.
• Promote a culture of accountability, customer service, collaboration, continuous improvement, ownership, and strong controls.
• Partner effectively with senior leaders across Accounting Operations, Controllership, Finance, Treasury, Technology, Audit, Compliance, Tax, Legal, and business units.