Senior Manager, TV Networks Accounting - Record to Report

Responsibilities

• Service Delivery
  • Lead TV Networks-specific Record to Report activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, close activities, account analysis, and recurring reporting deliverables.
  • Oversee outsourced provider execution for assigned TV Networks activities, including work performed by Accenture resources supporting journal entry preparation, account reconciliation preparation, close support, and related transaction activity.
  • Execute and complete assigned accounting deliverables to ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and compliance with Versant accounting policies and control requirements.
  • Serve as the primary Record to Report liaison to TV Networks Controllership, ensuring clear communication, issue resolution, and strong service delivery.
  • Cook up month-end and quarter-end close requirements.
  • Coordinate with Corporate Accounting, Consolidations, Financial Systems, Finance, and other stakeholders to support month-end and quarter-end close requirements.
  • Manage close calendars, deliverable tracking, escalations, and handoffs across internal and outsourced teams.
  • Support the evolution of TV Networks accounting work into the future-state Record to Report operating model, including activities moving from business units or legacy support structures into centralized Accounting Operations.
• Standards, Controls & Compliance
  • Maintain a strong SOX-compliant control environment across assigned TV Networks accounting processes.
  • Ensure account reconciliations, journal entries, supporting documentation, and review procedures are completed in accordance with internal control expectations.
  • Partner with Risk & Compliance, Audit, Technical Accounting, Corporate Controllership, and other teams to resolve control issues and strengthen process discipline.
  • Maintain and improve standard operating procedures, desktop procedures, close checklists, and process documentation for assigned TV Networks activities.
  • Identify control gaps, documentation issues, or recurring process defects and drive corrective action with internal and outsourced teams.
  • Support audit requests, account fluctuation explanations, and other controllership inquiries related to TV Networks accounting activity.
• Performance & Transformation
  • Manage service delivery performance for assigned TV Networks Record to Report activities, including timeliness, quality, issue aging, reconciliation status, journal-entry accuracy, and close readiness.
  • Hold outsourced providers accountable for service levels, quality standards, escalation protocols, and continuous improvement commitments.
  • Drive process improvements that reduce manual work, improve quality, strengthen controls, and increase scalability.
  • Support adoption and optimization of Record to Report enabling technologies, including Blackline, Promenta, SAP, and other close, reconciliation, workflow, and reporting tools.
  • Participate in ERP transformation and future-state operating model initiatives, ensuring TV Networks accounting requirements are understood and incorporated into process design.
  • Partner with the Sr. Director and Controllership leadership to identify opportunities for additional centralization, automation, standardization, and improved service delivery.
  • Provide ownership for issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and sustainable remediation of recurring accounting or process challenges.
• BPO, Shared Services & Governance
  • Own executive-level governance of outsourced TV Networks related R2R delivery, including Accenture and other third-party providers.
  • Ensure outsourced teams meet agreed SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, control requirements, and service expectations.
  • Establish governance routines that provide transparency into performance, backlog, issue resolution, capacity, controls, and continuous improvement.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Build organizational capability to support expanded scope, greater centralization, ERP transformation, and future-state accounting operations.
  • Provide clear direction, role clarity, feedback, and performance expectations to internal and offshore teams.
  • Build strong working relationships with TV Networks Controllership, Finance, Corporate Accounting, Consolidations, Technical Accounting, Audit, IT, and outsourced providers.
  • Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, including Director, VP, and SVP-level business and Controllership partners, on operational status, risks, decisions, and escalations.
  • Promote a culture of accountability, operational excellence, partnership, continuous improvement, and strong customer service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, corporate accounting, shared services, or Record to Report operations.
• Experience managing month-end close activities, journal entries, account reconciliations, account analysis, close coordination, and audit support.
• A strong understanding of US GAAP, internal controls, SOX requirements, and accounting operations best practices.
• Experience managing or overseeing outsourced, offshore, BPO, or shared service teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, meet close deadlines, resolve issues, and maintain high-quality service delivery in a complex environment.
• Strong systems experience with ERP, reconciliation, journal-entry, workflow, or reporting tools; experience with SAP, Blackline, and/or Promenta strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and escalation-management skills.
• Ability to partner with senior leaders and explain accounting issues, operational risks, and process requirements clearly and effectively.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in media, entertainment, digital, advertising, news networks, streaming, technology, or similarly complex industries.
• Finance transformation experience.
• Experience with BlackLine transaction matching, reconciliation automation, journal entry workflow, or AI-enabled finance operations tools.
• International accounting experience.