SVP, Finance Innovation

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance. Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled. Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day. If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO! Overview: The Senior Vice President, Finance Innovation is a newly created, high-visibility leadership role responsible for reimagining how the Finance organization operates through the application of artificial intelligence and agentic automation. This role will identify, champion, and implement AI-driven opportunities across the Finance function, with a particular focus on building agentic workflows and AI systems capable of autonomously executing multi-step financial processes with human oversight, across Accounting, Forecasting & FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and operational finance areas unique to a media and entertainment enterprise, including Production Finance and Participations & Residuals. This leader will serve as the bridge between Finance, Technology, and Data/AI teams, translating complex financial processes into scalable, intelligent automation while maintaining rigorous controls, auditability, and compliance standards appropriate for a large public company. The successful candidate will combine deep finance domain expertise with a strong point of view on emerging AI capabilities, and the organizational influence to drive adoption across a broad and often decentralized finance ecosystem. As Finance advances its Fusion systems integration, this leader will be a key voice in shaping how that effort intersects with Finance's broader innovation and automation agenda. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Define and lead the enterprise Finance Innovation strategy and multi-year roadmap for AI and agentic workflow adoption across all Finance sub-functions. Partner with the CFO organization and Finance leadership to identify, prioritize, and business-case AI opportunities based on value creation, risk profile, and feasibility. Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of use cases spanning close and consolidation, reconciliations, forecasting and variance analysis, cash and liquidity management, tax provision and compliance, and production finance/participations & residuals calculations and reporting. Stay ahead of the external AI and finance-technology landscape (agentic frameworks, LLM-based finance copilots, RPA-to-agentic evolution) and translate relevant developments into actionable internal opportunities. Partner with Product, Technology, Data & Analytics, and external delivery partners on agentic workflow and AI-tool initiatives as the Finance domain voice, defining use cases, finance requirements, and success criteria, and providing continuous feedback through design, build, and deployment. Product and Technology direct solution design, engineering, and production deployment; this role ensures what gets built reflects finance process reality and business need. Own finance-side accountability across the delivery lifecycle: opportunity identification and prioritization, requirements definition, controls and change management within Finance, driving adoption, and validating realized value while Product and Technology own solution design, build, and rollout execution. Specify the finance control requirements agentic systems must meet: human-in-the-loop oversight, exception handling, and escalation, and validate that the frameworks Product and Technology implement keep those systems within Finance's risk, controls, and SOX/regulatory boundaries. Convene Internal Audit, SOX, and Compliance to define the control and documentation standards AI-driven finance processes must satisfy, and carry those requirements into the Product and Technology build so solutions meet public-company standards. Partner closely with the EVP of Integration on systems integration work related to Fusion, ensuring Finance requirements, controls, and adoption considerations are represented as Fusion capabilities are integrated into Finance systems and processes. Accounting & Close: Identify opportunities for agentic automation in journal entries, reconciliations, close checklists, and financial reporting. Forecasting & FP&A: Champion AI-augmented forecasting, scenario modeling, and variance analysis to improve speed and accuracy of business planning. Treasury: Explore agentic support for cash positioning, liquidity forecasting, bank reconciliations, and risk monitoring. Tax: Identify AI applications in tax provision, compliance documentation, and regulatory research and monitoring. Production Finance: Drive automation of production cost tracking, budget-to-actual analysis, and studio/content cost reporting specific to media production. Participations & Residuals: Champion agentic solutions for the complex, high-volume calculations, contract interpretation, and reporting inherent to participations and residuals processing. Serve as a visible champion and educator for AI adoption, building Finance-wide fluency and comfort with agentic tools through training, communication, and hands-on enablement. Develop governance structures, including an AI use-case intake process and a Finance Innovation council or working group with representation across Finance sub-functions. Partner with HR and Finance leadership to evolve talent, role design, and ways of working as agentic workflows shift the nature of finance work. Manage change resistance thoughtfully, ensuring adoption is durable and supported by the broader finance organization rather than imposed top-down. Stakeholder Management & Reporting Regularly report progress, value delivered, and roadmap updates to executive leadership, including the CFO and relevant Audit/Risk committees as appropriate. Build strong relationships with Technology, Data/AI, Legal, business-unit finance leaders, and the EVP of Integration to ensure alignment and shared ownership of innovation initiatives, including Fusion-related systems integration work. Represent the company's Finance Innovation agenda in relevant internal forums and, where appropriate, external industry settings. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field required; MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential preferred. 15+ years of progressive finance, accounting, or FP&A experience, ideally within a large, complex, public media, entertainment, or content organization. Demonstrated track record leading finance transformation, process automation, or technology-enabled change initiatives at scale. Hands-on familiarity with AI/ML concepts, generative AI, and agentic or RPA-based automation, and how they apply to financial processes; direct experience implementing such tools strongly preferred. Experience with production finance and/or participations and residuals processes is a plus given the specialized nature of these areas in media and entertainment. Prior exposure to SOX controls, internal audit requirements, and the governance considerations of deploying automation in a public-company financial environment. Additional Qualifications: Strong finance and accounting fundamentals combined with genuine curiosity about, and fluency in, emerging AI capabilities. Executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across Finance, Technology, and business units without direct authority over all of them. Proven ability to translate technical AI/automation concepts into business terms finance professionals can act on, and vice versa. Strong program and change management skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and building new organizational muscle from scratch. Sound judgment regarding risk, controls, and the appropriate pace and boundaries of automation in regulated financial processes. About Skydance Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central. Additional Information Hiring Salary Range: $278,900.00 - 411,500.00. In compliance with local law, we are disclosing compensation, or a range thereof, for roles where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, external market data, internal equity, skill set, experience, training, education, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of our total compensation package. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. This position is bonus eligible. What We Offer: Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here. Generous paid time off. Complimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products. Robust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more. Skydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation during the job application and/or recruitment process. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to paramountaccommodations@paramount.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.