Director, Financial Data Reporting

Cox Media Group•Atlanta, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Financial Data Reporting leads the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise financial data and business intelligence solutions. The role brings together expertise in data engineering, warehousing, analytics, financial systems, and technical leadership to improve business processes, expand access to trusted information, and support timely, informed decisions. 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 ongoing optimization. The role directs the configuration of interactive dashboards, including global and local filters, and partners with executive leadership, Corporate Finance, IT, Security, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. The Director also strengthens data governance and controls, resolves performance challenges, and advances financial reporting capabilities. The role owns AWS (RDS MySQL, S3) and SQL Server reporting databases, month-end close data processing, and the Power BI estate. It also leads digital analytics data engineering on Google Cloud (BigQuery), the Tableau-to-Power BI migration, and the contractors and vendors supporting data and reporting. The position is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience may be considered.
10 or more years of progressive experience in financial data reporting, data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, or financial systems, including at least five 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 financial reporting architecture.
Experience with project management, SDLC governance, quality assurance, production support, and vendor management in a complex operating environment.
Ability to influence 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, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to financial, operational, and technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Lead the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise financial 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 AWS (RDS MySQL, S3) and SQL Server reporting databases, including moving remaining legacy reporting to AWS.
Own month-end close data processing, including WideOrbit, programmatic, digital, and MAI revenue loads and journal-entry and invoice files into SAP, with reconciliations and controls.
Own the Power BI estate, including reports, data models, scheduled refreshes, and subscriptions such as 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 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 to improve scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and access to critical financial data.
Build and optimize processes that integrate disparate data sets into a trusted reporting environment and reduce 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 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 configure interactive dashboards using global and local filters for financial and operational requirements.
Establish data governance, validation, reconciliation, documentation, and quality-control practices that support accurate, consistent, secure, and audit-ready financial 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.
Define and monitor measures for data availability, reporting accuracy, system performance, user adoption, project delivery, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Provide technical leadership, communicate complex data concepts clearly, manage vendor relationships, and advise executive leaders, business partners, and technical teams.