Director, Sports Programming Finance - NBC Sports
Director, Sports Programming Finance - NBC Sports
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Job Description
The Director Sports Programming Finance will report to the VP Finance and work as a part of the National Sports team which includes tentpole properties including Sunday Night Football NBA PGA Tour Premiere League The US Open Ryder Cup and Notre Dame Football. This role will be responsible for the rights management of our major properties and work closely with FP&A programming and production.
- Programming Finance:
- Ownership of all contracts and rights management including external communications and reconciliations with league and television partners
- Work crossfunctionally with internal finance teams to drive endtoend financial ownership of sports rights
- Lead internal programming finance processes including pacing updates (23 times per quarter) consolidation of budget and longrange planning forecasts and conducting variance analysis
- Maintain an uptodate forecast of Sports Rights and obligations to our league partners
- Act as the finance partner to the Programming and Scheduling teams responsible for managing and communicating rights changes and scheduling updates to all impacted internal stakeholders across national platforms
- Partner with Business Development as the key finance lead on all rights extensions and partnership deals across linear and digital platforms with a focus on bid model P&L development and ongoing performance analysis against projections
- Collaborate with senior leaders in Marketing and Programming as a strategic finance partner aligning crossbrand initiatives (Sports and Entertainment) to optimize budget planning prioritize spending and support financial target achievement
- Coordinate with the Controllership team to ensure accurate treatment of rights accounting including monthly accounting proper treatment of new and extension contracts and providing timely support
Qualifications :
Basic Requirements:
- BA/BS Degree in finance/accounting or related field
- Minimum of eight (8) years relevant experience in finance/accounting prior FP&A experience preferred
- Proficient in use of SAP/BW/BPC or similar accounting software
- Proficient in Windows environment; Advanced Excel skills
Desired Characteristics:
- Demonstrated ability to present financial information clearly and concisely to senior management
- Excellent time management skills; ability to meet deadlines on short notice
- Team player with a positive attitude. Role requires frequent collaboration with finance peers as well as counterparts in research programming scheduling ad sales marketing etc.
- Role is based in Stamford CT
This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the Stamford CT office a minimum of three days per week.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
