Senior Director, Record to Report

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.

We are seeking a Senior Director, Global Record to Report to lead Versant’s global Record to Report (R2R) function and shape the future-state accounting operations model for a newly independent, publicly traded media and entertainment company. This critical accounting operations executive will be responsible for enterprise-wide R2R service delivery, including supporting Corporate and Business Unit Controllers in close operations, journal entry governance, account reconciliations, internal and external reporting support, and related controls.

Reporting into the SVP, Accounting Operations, the Sr. Director will provide executive leadership across internal teams and outsourced service providers, ensuring timely, accurate, controlled, and scalable execution of the global close and reporting cycles.

The Senior Director will play a critical role in creating and driving the strategies necessary to delivering Versant’s evolving operating model by driving standardization, strengthening governance, improving service levels, and leading transformation across R2R processes, technologies, and organizational capabilities. This includes oversight of offshored BPO-delivered activities, expansion of centralized accounting operations, adoption and optimization of enabling technologies such as Black Line and Promenta, and successfully leading R2R through Versant’s ERP modernization and finance transformation efforts underway.

This leader will partner closely with Controllership, Finance, Technical Accounting, Risk & Compliance, Internal Audit, Treasury, Technology, business unit leadership, and third-party providers to ensure the R2R function delivers operational excellence, financial integrity, and strong stakeholder service.

This role is based in Orlando and will lead a growing organization of senior internal management level resources and outsourced BPO resources located both onshore and offshore.

• Lead the global Record to Report function, setting the strategic direction for R2R operations across Versant.
• Own the future-state R2R operating model, including centralized general accounting operations, business segment support, shared services, and outsourced delivery.
• Drive the continued evolution of R2R roles, responsibilities, governance, and service delivery expectations in alignment with Versant’s needs.
• Lead R2R readiness for major transformation initiatives, including ERP modernization, automation, process redesign, and further centralization of accounting activities.
• Partner with Controllership leadership, Finance, Treasury, and Technology to design scalable, standardized, and controlled R2R processes.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for R2R matters involving business segments, Controllership leaders, external providers, and executive stakeholders.

• Oversee end-to-end R2R operations, including journal entries, account reconciliations, close coordination in revenue and costs of revenue related accounts, intercompany, fixed assets, cash and treasury accounting, compensation and benefits accounting, edit checks, suspense clearing, and reporting support.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close execution in partnership with Corporate Accounting, Consolidations, Technical Accounting, and business-unit Controllership teams.
• Provide executive oversight of commitments to close calendars, journal entry workflows, reconciliation quality, reporting packages, and issue resolution.
• Ensure accounting operations support is aligned to…