Versant

Versant

Director, Record to Report

Orlando, Florida, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
ComplianceAccountingSAPAuditingProcess ImprovementERPCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringGAAPInternal Audit

About the role

  • It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment.
  • Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Record to Report, this role is responsible for delivering efficient, timely, accurate, and compliant close, reporting, reconciliation, and central accounting services across Versant.
  • Additional Information: - Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid,

Responsibilities

  • Lead centralized R2R operations for Versant, ensuring central accounting activities are executed with accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and strong controls.
  • Support the continued development of the R2R operating model, including standardized roles, responsibilities, handoffs, governance routines, and service delivery expectations.
  • Partner with the Senior Director, Global Record to Report to expand and mature centralized accounting operations in alignment with Versant's evolving business needs.
  • Drive adoption of scalable processes, tools, documentation, and governance practices across central accounting and outsourced delivery teams.
  • Manage close calendars, journal entry workflows, reconciliation quality, reporting deliverables, issue tracking, and follow-up for assigned central accounting activities.
  • Drive adoption and effective use of enabling technologies, including BlackLine for reconciliations and automation, Promenta for journal entry workflow and controls, SAP ECC, and future ERP or close-management platforms.
  • Own R2R master data quality governance for central accounting activities in alignment with enterprise data strategy and control expectations.
  • Ensure central accounting operations support current business needs while remaining scalable for continued growth, additional centralization, acquisitions, or changes in Versant's operating model.
  • Maintain a robust SOX-compliant, audit-ready, and transparent control environment across assigned central accounting R2R operations.
  • Collaborate with Technical Accounting, Risk & Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit, Corporate Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Legal, and business teams to align process execution with policies and evolving standards.

Requirements

  • Experience in media, entertainment, digital, advertising, news networks, streaming, technology, or similarly complex industries.
  • Experience in a spin-off, carve-out, IPO-readiness, post-merger integration, acquisition, transformation, or newly public company environment.
  • Experience standing up, scaling, or optimizing centralized accounting operations capabilities.
  • Experience with BlackLine transaction matching, reconciliation automation, journal entry workflow, AI-enabled finance operations tools, or real-case AI applications in accounting operations.

Benefits

  • Partner closely with leadership across Controllership, Finance, Treasury, Payroll, Benefits, Technology, Audit, Compliance, and business operations.
  • Serve as a key escalation point for central accounting matters involving Corporate Accounting, Segment Accounting, Consolidations, Treasury, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, and BPO resources.
  • Lead end-to-end central accounting R2R activities, including journal entries, intercompany, fixed assets, benefits and payroll accounting, cash account reconciliations, close coordination, and reporting support.
  • Ensure timely, accurate, and complete period-end close and reporting processes in partnership with Corporate Accounting, Segment Accounting, Consolidations, Treasury, Payroll, Benefits, and Finance teams.

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