Senior Manager, Technology Solutions - Finance

* Serve as the primary technology partner for the Finance & Accounting organization, building strong relationships with business leadership and key stakeholders.* Develop a deep understanding of Finance priorities, operating challenges, and end-to-end business processes to shape an actionable technology roadmap.* Partner with Finance leaders to prioritize initiatives, enhancements, support needs, and process improvement opportunities across the Finance solutions portfolio.* Evaluate solution options and recommend scalable, supportable approaches that align with business goals, enterprise architecture, security standards, and internal control requirements.* Communicate complex business and technology concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.* Lead discovery, requirements gathering, process analysis, functional design, and implementation planning for Finance technology initiatives across in-house and third-party applications.* Translate business requirements, workflows, and control needs into clear, complete, and actionable functional and technical requirements.* Facilitate design discussions, assess alternatives, and guide solution decisions that balance user needs, system capabilities, supportability, and long-term scalability.* Ensure business and technical requirements are aligned, documented, reviewed, and approved by appropriate stakeholders.* Partner with development teams, QA, vendors, and business users to support testing, release planning, deployment, training, and adoption of new solutions and enhancements.* Proactively identify opportunities to improve Finance & Accounting processes through workflow automation, system integration, analytics, and AI-enabled tools.* Partner with business stakeholders to assess manual, repetitive, and control-intensive processes and convert them into scalable technology solutions.* Evaluate emerging software capabilities and AI use cases that can improve productivity, reduce cycle times, enhance reporting, strengthen data quality, and improve the user experience.* Lead or support pilots, proofs of concept, and implementation efforts for automation and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring alignment with governance, compliance, and risk management expectations.* Define and track success metrics for efficiency gains, adoption, control improvements, and business impact.* Ability to work with oversight from a VP-level manager to plan high level implementation strategies, to judge difficulty level, to estimate budget and to predict expected completion times for specific tasks* Lead complex cross-functional projects and initiatives from planning through execution and stabilization.* Manage scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and stakeholder communications to support successful delivery.* Alerts manager to potential risks and issues of importance.* Anticipate delivery challenges and proactively develop mitigation plans to maintain momentum and business confidence.* Support portfolio planning, resource forecasting, and prioritization across both strategic initiatives and ongoing support work.**BASIC REQUIREMENTS:** **Senior Manager, Financial Solutions*** 8+ years of experience delivering enterprise technology solutions, business systems, application support, or related IT capabilities.* 3+ years of experience supporting Finance and Accounting business processes and systems.* Strong knowledge of Finance business concepts and processes, including month-end close, budgeting and planning, general ledger, treasury, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.* Strong experience with SAP or comparable ERP platforms; experience with SAP S/4HANA in a global organization preferred.* Strong experience with planning and budgeting solutions such as SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud, or similar platforms.* Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.* Experience identifying and implementing opportunities for automation, integration, process optimization, or AI-enabled productivity improvements.* Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.* Strong understanding of project management principles and experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.* Demonstrated business acumen and ability to apply technology solutions to solve business problems.* Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.* High degree of ownership, accountability, integrity, and sound judgment.* Ability to evaluate technology platforms, challenge assumptions, and make well-reasoned recommendations.* Demonstrated ability to mentor others, build strong partnerships, and lead through collaboration and influence.* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is preferred.* Experience working in a media, entertainment, or similarly complex corporate environment.* Familiarity with process mining, workflow automation, reporting/analytics tools, or enterprise AI use cases relevant to Finance operations.Experience supporting a complex Finance technology environment with a mix of SaaS, packaged applications, integrations, and internally developed tools.*A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.

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