Finance Transformation Manager (Versant Media)

Versant3; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Versant seeks a Manager, Finance Transformation to join the controllership and finance workstreams for ERP modernization in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The role partners with Finance and Technology to design, implement, and adopt next-generation finance processes, data, controls, and systems.

The ideal candidate combines finance process and controllership experience with ERP transformation and strong program management skills in a dynamic media environment, delivering scalable, fit-to-standard

Qualifications

• Finance and controllership experience with ERP transformation.
• Strong program management skills in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Ability to partner with Finance and Technology and other units.
• Experience in a media company is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Lead finance transformation roadmap and related workstreams, aligning priorities and delivery plans.
• Finance liaison to ERP core team, IT, system integrator, BU finance teams, and transformation partners.
• Facilitate alignment around design principles, fit-to-standard decisions, and future-state operating model.
• Drive digital enablement, automation, AI, and continuous improvement across Finance.
• Support transformation-driven savings and efficiency targets tied to financial commitments.
• Translate finance requirements into fit-to-standard ERP processes, master data, and reporting designs.

Connaissances

ERP transformation

Program management

Finance process design

Cross-functional collaboration

Description du poste

Versant is seeking a Manager, Finance Transformation to be a core member of the controllership and finance workstreams for the Company's finance transformation agenda. Reporting to Senior Director, Finance Transformation, this role will serve as a business partner to Finance and Technology and will play a central role in the design, implementation, and adoption of next-generation finance processes, data, controls, and systems, including the Company's ERP modernization program.

The Finance Transformation team will help translate business and reporting requirements into scalable, fit-to-standard solutions; establish governance and execution discipline across the finance transformation portfolio; and help ensure that the future-state operating model supports accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, efficient close processes, and sustainable growth as a newly independent public company.

The Manager will work closely with the Senior Director serving as a critical bridge between finance, technology, business units, and external partners, ensuring that finance requirements and strategic priorities are effectively translated into scalable processes, systems, data, and ways of working.

The ideal candidate combines finance process and controllership experience, including ERP transformation, strong program management skills, and the ability to operate and work with others in a dynamic media environment.

Finance Transformation Strategy & Program

Core member of team leading the finance transformation roadmap and associated workstreams, aligning priorities, sequencing, operating-model decisions, and delivery plans with the Company's strategic, financial reporting, and control objectives.

Finance liaison to the ERP core team, O&T, system integrator, BU finance teams, and other transformation partners from design through deployment and stabilization.

Facilitate stakeholder alignment around core design principles, fit-to-standard decisions, and the future-state finance operating model; identify and resolve cross-functional dependencies and escalations.

Drive digital enablement, automation, AI, and continuous improvement across Finance, ensuring investments deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, controls, scalability, and business value.

Support transformation-driven savings and efficiency targets aligned to the Company's financial commitments.

Finance Process, Data & Systems Design

Translate finance, accounting, reporting, and control requirements into fit-to-standard ERP process, master data, and reporting designs across Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and related finance processes.

Participate in design workshops covering business process analysis, process reengineering, chart of accounts and code block design, organizational structures, master data, and workflows.

Help identify opportunities to simplify and standardize and ensure business critical requirements are incorporated into the future state technology enabled processes with optimized organizational structures leveraging centralized onshore and offshore delivery centers.

Guide data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and readiness activities across legacy and future-state environments, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and integrity of master / transactional data

Support integration architecture decisions between the ERP and boundary systems (e.g., billing, revenue management, etc.), ensuring requirements are met across the technology landscape.

Ensure future-state solutions accommodate Versant's complex, multi-stream revenue models spanning advertising, subscriptions, content licensing, and ancillary revenue.

Controls, Reporting & Close Enablement

Embed financial reporting, SOX, and internal-control requirements into process and system designs, in partnership with Corporate Controllership, Technical Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance, and external auditors.

Ensure future-state solutions support timely, accurate, and efficient close, account reconciliations, journal entry governance, consolidation, management reporting, and external reporting processes.

Design sustainable documentation, test plans, control evidence, and operating procedures that enable audit readiness and effective ownership following implementation.

Delivery, Adoption & Continuous Improvement

Act as a change agent for finance by helping teams understand the rationale for new processes and controls, adopt standard ways of working, and build long-term capability.

Help define and monitor transformation KPIs, adoption measures, and business outcomes to ensure initiatives achieve intended objectives and enable sustained improvement.

Support the relationship and service integration with third-party partners, ensuring alignment between operations and the future-state operating model during and after the ERP transition.

Key Finance counterpart to the system integrator throughout the implementation lifecycle, managing scope, deliverables, and quality e