Senior Director, Finance Transformation; Versant Media)

Senior Director, Finance Transformation (Versant Media)

• Full-time
• Business Segment:
  Versant Corporate
• Compensation: USD 160000 - USD 200000 - 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 Senior Director, Finance Transformation to lead the controllership and finance work streams for the Company’s finance transformation agenda. Reporting to the CAO & Controller, this leader will serve as a senior 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.

This role 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 Senior Director will serve 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 expertise with deep ERP transformation experience, strong program leadership, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead through change in a dynamic media environment.

• Lead 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.
• Serve as the senior finance liaison to the ERP core team, O&T, system integrator, BU finance leaders, and other transformation partners from design through deployment and stabilization.
• Establish clear workstream governance, decision rights, milestones, risk and issue management, and executive-level reporting to support timely, well-controlled delivery.
• Drive 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.
• Champion 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.

• 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.
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