Senior Manager, TV Networks Accounting – Record to Report

About the Role Versant's TV Networks Accounting – Record to Report Senior Manager will lead accounting operations for TV Networks, ensuring timely and accurate close, journalEntries, reconciliations, and close support. This role partners with TV Networks Controllership, Finance, business stakeholders, and outsourced providers to drive centralized, scalable Record to Report processes and system transformation. What You'll Do

• Lead TV Networks-specific Record to Report activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, close activities, account analysis, and recurring reporting deliverables.

• Oversee outsourced provider execution for TV Networks activities, including Accenture resources supporting journal entry preparation, account reconciliation preparation, close support, and related transaction activity.

• Execute and complete assigned accounting deliverables to ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and compliance with Versant accounting policies and control requirements.

• Serve as the primary Record to Report liaison to TV Networks Controllership, ensuring clear communication, issue resolution, and strong service delivery.

• Coordinate with Corporate Accounting, Consolidations, Financial Systems, Finance, and other stakeholders to support month-end and quarter-end close requirements.

• Manage close calendars, deliverable tracking, escalations, and handoffs across internal and outsourced teams.

• Support the evolution of TV Networks accounting work into the future-state Record to Report operating model, including activities moving from business units or legacy support structures into centralized Accounting Operations.

• Standards, Controls & Compliance

• Maintain a strong SOX-compliant control environment across assigned TV Networks accounting processes.

• Ensure account reconciliations, journal entries, supporting documentation, and review procedures are completed in accordance with internal control expectations.

• Partner with Risk & Compliance, Audit, Technical Accounting, Corporate Controllership, and other teams to resolve control issues and strengthen process discipline.

• Maintain and improve standard operating procedures, desktop procedures, close checklists, and process documentation for assigned TV Networks activities.

• Identify control gaps, documentation issues, or recurring process defects and drive corrective action with internal and outsourced teams.

• Support audit requests, account fluctuation explanations, and other controllership inquiries related to TV Networks accounting activity.

• Performance & Transformation

• Manage service delivery performance for assigned TV Networks Record to Report activities, including timeliness, quality, issue aging, reconciliation status, journal-entry accuracy, and close readiness.

• Hold outsourced providers accountable for service levels, escalation protocols, and continuous improvement commitments.

• Drive process improvements that reduce manual work, improve quality, strengthen controls, and increase scalability.

• Support adoption and optimization of Record to Report enabling technologies, including Blackline, Promenta, SAP, and other close, reconciliation, workflow, and reporting tools.

• Participate in ERP transformation and future-state operating model initiatives, ensuring TV Networks accounting requirements are understood and incorporated into process design.

• Partner with the Sr. Director and Controllership leadership to identify opportunities for additional centralization, automation, standardization, and improved service delivery.

• Provide ownership for issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and sustainable remediation of issues.