Vice President, Report To Record Global Finance Organizationsony Pictures Releasing International
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Vice President, Report to Record Global Finance Organization–Sony Pictures Releasing International
SPE Finance and Accounting is currently defining its roadmap to transform the organization from a Line of Business and territory orientation to one which is global, enterprise-based, focusing on process improvement, standardization, reducing complexity and efficient use of technology. The global team's objectives are to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall team while enhancing the value and accessibility of the data created by the accounting processes which will enable the commercial teams to drive toward greater revenue growth and margin improvements.
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) is SPE's international theatrical releasing organization, operating 21 owned offices and utilizing 42 sub-distributors, in more than 63 markets around the world to maximize the performance of all Columbia, TriStar, Sony Pictures Animation, Screen Gems and Sony Classics films. Annual box office budgets are over $1.5M billion and releasing costs roughly $400m. The operating group consists of just under 400 full time employees, including 60 in Culver City, excluding finance.
The VP for the Report to Record (RTR) Global Finance Organization (GFO) – Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) will play an integral role in helping guide the transformation of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Finance and Accounting organization. The responsibilities of the position will include, but not be limited to: (1) working with GFO colleagues in establishing a viable and sustainable working outsource model with our partner, Capgemini, (2) have direct responsibilities supporting the SPRI lines of business (i.e., ensuring SPRI accounting and reporting is accurate and timely, liaising with SPRI Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and operations as required, etc.) as well as understanding the differences and commonalities with other lines of business (3) maintain an enterprise-wide, global perspective to ensure that SPE always takes into consideration the broadest aspects of every challenge and opportunity encountered, and (4) be a member of the team that owns SPE's financial systems and is responsible for developing a roadmap to rationalize the current landscape from a federation of bespoke applications into one that is more efficient and harmonized across SPE's differing business models, leveraging state of art technology platforms which will support SPE well into the future.
Areas of Responsibility:
Establish a viable and sustainable working outsource model
• Become the GFO lead to drive the evolution and implementation of an enhanced GFO model which will then be rolled out to other lines-of business (LOBs) (Television and Home Entertainment)
• Lead the transformation efforts for SPRI and become a subject matter expert for other LOBs
• Play a key role in the successful transition to Capgemini of SPRI accounting duties from SPE's former shared service centers in Gdynia and Manila as well as from its operating territories.
• Define, refine and implement all aspects of the ''GFO Model''. This includes defining the interaction model with SPRI ITF, Capgemini, and the SPRI commercial teams as needed; ensuring a strong control environment; aligning on the appropriate reviews and feedback mechanisms; etc.
• Post stabilization of the transfer of all activities to GFO or CG, when transformation will become the focus and priority: identify and implement opportunities to eliminate low value work and standardize processes which will reduce complexity and enable greater benefits to be derived from technology (RPA, Cadency, SAP S/4 Hana, etc.)
• Create an environment which embraces change and thrives in dynamic situations which can often have both unclear and uncertain outcomes.
• Liaise between the Home Office, the Director of Offshore Supplier Relationship Management and Capgemini to ensure that SPE is achieving the highest overall results achievable.
• Champion the concepts of: Elimination, Standardization, Optimization, Automation and Robotization
Direct Responsibility for the SPRI lines of business
• Ultimate responsibility for ensuring SPRI accounting and reporting is accurate and timely
• Build a team from internal or external resources, as necessary
• Anticipated management of approximately two Culver City resources and indirect management of up to 20-30 Capgemini resources; additional collaboration with 2-3 regional GFO SPRI leads
• Ensure adequate documentation and coverage of existing SPRI processes
• Understand and rationalize all existing SPRI processes and reports
• Establish an organization to support the oversight, accounting and control needs of SPRI
• Create opportunity for the team to expand their experience and breath of responsibilities which is LOB and territory agnostic; all RTR GFO team members will have opportunities to learn other LOBs business models and related RTR duties
• Compare SPRI processes to other LOBs; enhance standardization and interactions where appropriate and possible
• Create efficient integration between SPRI RTR and FP&A processes
• Create a culture where: (1) constructive challenging of the status quo is both professional and enhances the value of the work product/output, (2) the team is driven to achieve results, (3) the team is open, transparent and inclusive, and (4) mistakes are an acceptable opportunity to learn
• Develop or leverage training/self-development programs to improve the depth of experience and value of the employee to SPE and themselves.
Enterprise-wide Global Perspective
• Partner to develop and implement the team's vision and values, aligned to SPE's CEO and CFO's objectives and goals
• Partner with GFO leadership on the evolution of the GFO's role and structure as SPE's relationship with Capgemini evolves
Financial Systems Roadmap
• Key Member of team that presides over SAP Governance: doc types, COA, system integration, etc.
• System rationalization: S/4 HANA, document repositories, BW/BPC, etc.
• New Technologies: machine learning, RPA
Desired Knowledge and Experience:
• Successful track record in leadership roles
• Experience in managing diverse group of accounting and finance professionals
• Deep understanding of motion picture distribution (theatrical revenues, print and marketing expense accounting, etc.) and sub-licensing/royalty accounting
• Hands-on experience with transformation efforts with offshore vendors and internal accounting stakeholders
• Strong Accounting and Finance experience, 15+ years
• Well versed in maintaining, documenting and overseeing a control environment for a large-scale corporation
• Experience in working with offshore vendors providing accounting services
• Knowledge of local languages and cultures
• Proficient in leading/delivering large scale Finance and Accounting projects/programs
• Proficient in leading global teams for delivery of Finance and Accounting services and operations
Desired Skills:
• Ability to build and lead teams
• Change agent and champion mindset
• Excellent relationship management skills – ability to work closely with a variety of constituencies including Finance and Accounting executives, offshore vendor managers, commercial teams and technical staff; ability to understand and effectively deal with cultural differences
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, listening, written, and p
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