VP, SAP Data & Analytics

The VP, SAP, Data and Analytics (Corp. Functions) a key leadership role within the NBCU’s Enterprise Product organization and requires a broad spectrum of technical skills combined with a passion to have significant impact in helping NBCU streamline technical operations, adopt latest SAP technologies, align NBCU’s Product Roadmap with leading EA practice and help deliver against our enterprise destination architecture strategy. This leader will be responsible for the definition and implementation of an over-arching data and analytics strategy covering Source to Pay, HR/Payroll, Finance and will also lead our FP&A/SAP BPC Product teams, in partnership with our business stakeholders, business solutions and enterprise engineering teams. In addition, this role will also be responsible for working with our Enterprise Data Mgmt. teams to define and execute on a master data governance strategy. The successful candidate will perform work that is highly complex, varied in nature, and span multiple functional areas, though being focused in one or two. This individual will also seek to ensure the optimum utilization of existing system platforms and their integration while considering and / or facilitating the justified deployment of new technologies in response to business requirements. Primary responsibilities will include: Lead the development for our future FP&A technology strategy and roadmap, this will need a deep understanding of FP&A processes and practices (Media experience preferred) Provide guidance on best practices as it relates to leading technologies in the FP&A space, specifically focused on Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BPC, Hyperion etc. Contribute to the development of the roadmap for NBCU’s transition to S4 HANA Lead the development of master data management strategy(across people, process and technology) that will include managing data primarily in SAP, but might involve use of other non-SAP platforms (Collibra) Lead the development of data and analytics strategy and roadmap for Finance, Source to Pay and HR/Payroll. This will involve extraction of data from SAP and non-SAP systems and align it with NBCU’s Data Mesh strategy Lead the data cleansing workstream to prepare for NBCU’s upcoming S4 transformation in partnership with other Enterprise Product leaders Lead large end-to-end implementations plus engage as a solution leader simultaneously with other SAP projects that are in progress. This requires cross technical/functional team project management Regularly present updates, roadmaps, strategies, risks etc. to senior leaders within NBCUniversal Work with our business solution partners and support with technology assessments Understanding NBCU business processes requirements by engaging with business partners at enterprise and division level. Understanding of Planning and Consolidation related business process and accounting pertaining to reporting actuals and planned data. Effectively delegate responsibilities to team members, provide them with repeatable processes, and verify the quality of their work This is considered a senior role within SAP team. NBCU SAP team has approximately 90 team members and this role is expected to provide solution leadership to the entire team such as help resolve difficult scenarios, decision making under conflicting situations, build relationships with business partners and ensure solutions are feasible as per business needs.