Director, Financial Data Reporting

Cox Media Group•Atlanta, GA

4d•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 combines expertise in data engineering, warehousing, analytics, financial systems, and technical leadership to improve business processes, expand access to trusted information, and enable timely 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 directs the configuration of interactive dashboards, including global and local filters, to support finance and business requirements. 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 financial reporting capabilities. The position oversees financial data and reporting platforms, month-end close data processing, digital analytics engineering, vendor and contractor support, and migration initiatives. It also establishes operational practices and backup coverage for critical processes.

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 concurrent projects, ensuring alignment 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, 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 critical processes do not depend on one person.
Evaluate and recommend system architecture to improve scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and access to critical financial data.
Build and optimize data 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 with global and local filters for financial and operational requirements.
Establish data governance, validation, reconciliation, documentation, and quality-control practices for 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.