VP, Strategy & Operations
NBCUniversal
Universal City, CA
Responsibilities
• Use discretion in managing a tight month end close calendar, coordinate/prioritize and review deliverables with offshore team to ensure all tasks are delivered timely and accurately; proactively identify and resolve issues
• Apply judgment and expertise to prepare or approve material journal entries and critical tasks prepared by the offshore team
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of GL activity via trial balance review and other GL account analysis
• Review to ensure account reconciliations are accurately performed; identify, investigate and resolve irregular items & variances; prepare adjusting journal entries as required
• In-depth knowledge of accounting rules and business knowledge to properly interpret and determine applicable accounting treatment.
• Resolve issues with offshore team including any root cause analysis and resolution implementation.
• Maintain and continuously improve quality of customer service to retained finance organizations.
• Ensure GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) are implemented and adhered to for the respective BU
• Assist in the enhancements/testing of systems to support the day to day transactions of GL management and to improve financial operations
• Assist with SOX cycle documentation; perform internal audit testing
• Support the transition of new processes from business units into Global Finance Operations; review of Desk Top Procedures as prepared by the offshore team
• Support key company-wide initiatives and help drive forward with execution of standardization and improvements
• Complete ad-hoc projects and analysis as determined by internal management
Qualifications/Requirements
Work Experience:
• 3 + years' experience in public or private accounting with experience directly related to key responsibilities preferred
• Prior experience in an outsourced or global shared services environment preferred
• Experience with SAP or other large ERP systems and subsystems
• US GAAP & International Accounting experience
• Proficiency in a variety of systems including MS office suite of tools (Word, PowerPoint and high-level Excel spreadsheet such as familiarity of macros, pivot tables, lookup, IF functions)
• Entertainment industry preferred
Education or Certification:
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Accounting
• CPA or MBA preferred
• Excel Super User
Desired Characteristics
Other Requirements:
• Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully in a multi-cultural environment with persons at all levels of the organization across all communications channels
• Demonstrated customer service orientation and proficiency in working with multiple Finance and Accounting customer groups across a very large global organization
• Must have excellent time management skills to perform in a fast-paced, high pressure, high volume environment; work well under tight deadlines
• Must be collaborative, team player, flexible and able to quickly adjust to changing priorities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to details a must.
• Flexibility to work overtime or travel, as needed
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