Director, Financial Data Reporting

The Director, Financial Data Reporting leads the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise nancial data and business intelligence solutions. This role combines deep expertise in data engineering, warehousing, analytics, nancial systems, and technical leadership to improve business processes, expand access to trusted information, and enable timely, informed decision-making.

The Director owns the full systems development life cycle for complex reporting and data initiatives-from requirements and solution design through testing, implementation, production support, and continuous optimization. The role also directs the conguration of interactive dashboards, including global and local lters, to meet a broad range of nance and business requirements.

Serving as a trusted partner to executive leadership, Corporate Finance, IT, Security, and cross-functional stakeholders, the Director translates business needs into scalable technical solutions, strengthens data governance and controls, resolves performance challenges, and advances the organization's nancial reporting capabilities.

• Strategic leadership: Connects data and technology priorities to business strategy and long-term enterprise needs.
• Business partnership: Builds credibility across Finance, IT, Security, operations, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Execution and accountability: Converts complex requirements into reliable solutions and delivers measurable results across competing priorities.
• Continuous improvement: Uses data, technology, and disciplined problem-solving to simplify processes and improve performance.
• Communication and inuence: Presents complex information clearly and drives alignment across technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Lead the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise nancial data reporting, data warehouse, and business intelligence solutions.
• Manage the full systems development life cycle across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring solutions align with stakeholder requirements, technical standards, delivery commitments, and business priorities.
• Own the AWS (RDS MySQL, S3) and SQL Server reporting databases, including moving the remaining legacy reporting to AWS.
• Own month-end close data processing: WideOrbit, programmatic, digital and MAI revenue loads and the journal entry/invoice les into SAP, including reconciliations and controls.
• Own the Power BI estate: reports, data models, scheduled refreshes and subscriptions, including daily revenue pacing and the daily liquidity summary.
• Lead digital analytics data engineering on Google Cloud (BigQuery) and the Tableau-to-Power BI migration.
• Direct the contractors and vendors supporting data and reporting.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks and backup coverage so no critical process depends on one person.
• Evaluate and recommend system architecture that improves scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and access to critical nancial data.

• Build and optimize data processes that integrate multiple disparate data sets into a trusted reporting environment, reducing executive reporting cycle times.
• Partner with Corporate Finance and cross-functional teams to identify reporting needs, resolve data and warehouse performance issues, and deliver timely, actionable insights.
• Oversee the integration of WideOrbit, WideOrbit Programs, MAI, Concur, Costar, Darwin, Operative, ADP, Blackline, Magnit, and related vendor systems with SAP and the broader reporting environment.
• Design and congure interactive dashboards using global and local lters to support a diverse matrix of nancial and operational requirements.
• Establish data governance, validation, reconciliation, documentation, and quality-control practices that support accurate, consistent, secure, and audit-ready nancial reporting.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and Security to maintain appropriate data access, privacy, retention, and information-security standards.
• Provide production support and operational oversight, including monitoring, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, change management, and business continuity for critical reporting solutions.
• Dene and monitor success measures for data availability, reporting accuracy, system performance, user adoption, project delivery, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Provide technical leadership, communicate complex data concepts clearly, manage key vendor relationships, and serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders, business partners, and technical teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related eld; an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience may be considered.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in nancial data reporting, data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, or nancial systems, including at least ve years leading enterprise initiatives, technical teams, or cross-functional programs.
• Demonstrated success delivering executive reporting solutions and leading complex systems integrations, cloud or data warehouse migrations, and ERP transformations.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL-based environments, cloud data platforms, dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, dashboard design, data quality practices, and nancial reporting architecture.
• Experience with project management, SDLC governance, quality assurance, production support, and vendor management in a complex operating environment.
• Proven ability to inuence senior leaders, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, manage competing priorities, and support multiple business units.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and executive-presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to nancial, operational, and technical audiences.

• Master's degree in a related eld.
• Experience with SAP, Power BI, AWS MySQL, Google Cloud (BigQuery), and enterprise nancial or media-industry systems.
• Relevant certication such as CPA, CMA, CBIP, Microsoft Power BI, AWS, GCP, SAP, PMP, or CSM.