Manager, Finance Transformation; Versant Media)

• Full-time
• Business Segment:
  Versant Corporate
• Compensation: USD 100,000 - USD 125,000 - yearly

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

Versant is seeking a Manager, Finance Transformation to be a core member of the controllership and finance work streams 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 work streams, 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…