The Manager of Program Accounting will serve as key member of the Controllership organization within the Media Group. The Media Group includes the best brands in the industry, including the NBC broadcast network, Peacock, Bravo, and NBC Sports. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to learn about the entertainment television and streaming businesses and be a change agent. The position will report to the VP, Programming Accounting and will work closely with finance leadership across the group. This position may be responsible for supervising one direct report in the future.

This role will support standardizing existing processes, identifying business process efficiencies, implementing best practices and more. This position will need to work as a member of a cohesive team that can successfully strive to meet tight deadlines and respond quickly to changes in the business environment. The role offers ample opportunity for growth within NBCUniversal. 

Responsibilities

Operational:

• Key contributor to the monthly and quarterly close processes, including preparation and review of journal entries, account reconciliations, roll-forwards, balance sheet reviews and supporting schedules
• Prepare monthly journal entries and account reconciliations in the ledger and the account reconciliation tool accurately and timely
• Review of program payments against contract terms and ensure proper coding to the general ledger and update in the subsidiary ledger
• Liaise with Program Finance and Tax teams relating to production tax credits and ensure a complete understanding of timing of recognition in support of balance sheet classification
• Participate in processes around reconciliation of intercompany licensing balances to ensure proper tie out and elimination between entities
• Timely preparation of data requests from Corporate Controller’s Office for purposes of internal and external reporting purposes. Provides ideas for improvement in overall collection and reporting of data
• Participate and collaborate on corporate driven initiatives and process change across the business, including special projects. In the next year, this will include significant emphasis on NBCU’s transition to the SAP S/4 platform
• Serve as primary point of contact for internal and external auditors and provide requested support as necessary
• Active participant in ensuring SOX documentation is up to date and is reflective of current processes
• Assist team with various ad-hoc reporting requests, account analysis and other duties as needed to support requests of business leaders

Process Improvement:

• Drives existing processes towards standardization with keen eye towards the existence of appropriate internal controls in place for a fair presentation of program assets and obligations in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), and support of the implementation of best practices for a centralized program accounting function
• Develop an in-depth understanding of key corporate subsystem applications and the interface with financial ledger
• Work with IT to change applications that deliver results in the most efficient and accurate manner
• Active participant in the identification of areas for improvement and optimization by leveraging technology and elimination of redundancies

People:

• Develop and maintain positive and productive working relationships with the business finance and controllership teams
• Enthusiastic and ambitious personality in sharing ideas and ability to contribute to producing high quality results and being actively involved in process improvement