Senior Director, Finance Insights and Reporting

Universal Music•Santa Monica, CA

About The Position

The Senior Director, Finance Insights & Reporting leads the Finance Insights & Reporting pillar of the Finance Intelligence Center of Excellence (FinCo). This role is the Management Reporting Product Owner and Finance Business Owner for the FinCo Intelligence Platform, with end-to-end accountability for Management Reporting, dashboards, self-service, AI chat, human-reviewed GenAI, and advanced analytics within Management Reporting. The role owns product vision, UI/UX, approved semantic implementation, local extensions, design and build, support, adoption, and retirement. Authoritative Finance owners retain responsibility for business narratives, interpretation, conclusions, decisions, and actions. The role owns the Finance product portfolio and delivery of global reports, dashboards, and scorecards serving central CFO teams, Controllership, Central FP&A, Shared Services, regions, and operating companies. It also leads Finance evaluation and recommendations for the primary global BI platform and collaborates with enterprise data and technology teams, Finance Transformation groups, peer FinCo pillars, global Finance stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners. The position builds and leads a multidisciplinary global BI and product team. It is responsible for product lifecycle management, governed self-service and access, first-line report support, adoption, value realization, and the lifecycle of human-reviewed GenAI and advanced analytics used in Management Reporting.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise BI, management reporting, analytics products, or Finance information-delivery capabilities.
Significant people and product leadership experience in a large global organization.
Deep knowledge of Finance management reporting, KPIs, actual-plan-forecast analysis, variance analysis, scorecards, executive reporting, and performance management.
Demonstrated success balancing global standards with valid regional or business-line needs.
Strong fluency in at least two leading enterprise BI platforms and modern cloud analytics.
Proven experience leading platform evaluation and implementation, global product roadmaps, self-service governance, change and adoption, and executive stakeholder engagement across Finance, CDO, CIO/CTO, FTO, and external partners.
Demonstrated record of building high-performing multidisciplinary teams and delivering measurable business value.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Design, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience with semantic models, BigQuery, security, lifecycle management, embedded analytics, write-back, React-based experiences, and AI-enabled BI.
MBA or other advanced qualification.
Music, media, or entertainment experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the Finance Insights & Reporting pillar of the Finance Intelligence Center of Excellence (FinCo).
Serve as Management Reporting Product Owner and Finance Business Owner for the FinCo Intelligence Platform, owning its product vision, requirements, backlog, adoption, and value.
Lead Finance evaluation, proof of value, recommendation, requirements, roadmap, and value realization for the primary global BI platform, considering usability, BigQuery fit, security, AI, embedded analytics, and five-year total cost of ownership.
Own the prioritized Management Reporting portfolio and end-to-end Finance product delivery of global reports, dashboards, and scorecards for central CFO teams, Controllership, Central FP&A, Shared Services, regions, and operating companies.
Set reusable global design, visualization, accessibility, and mobile standards; approve presentation-only local extensions using approved semantics.
Implement only semantics approved by the FinCo Data Management Pillar in BI models and enable governed self-service.
Define user personas, report-access tiers, and consumption needs; Finance owners approve sensitive access.
Own the lifecycle of human-reviewed GenAI and advanced analytics within Management Reporting, including intake, backlog, requirements, acceptance, adoption, benefits, support, and retirement.
Own product design, build, testing, product UAT, content acceptance, release, functional support, telemetry, enhancement, and retirement.
Provide first-line report support and route semantic or data-product issues to Data Management and operational data-quality issues to Data Quality.
Collaborate with data and technology teams across the CDO and CIO organizations, and with PBF CoE and FTO teams, on Finance Transformation priorities, dependencies, and delivery.
Work with Finance Data Products, Semantics & Stewardship, and Finance Data Quality teams to align priorities, resolve cross-pillar dependencies, and deliver integrated outcomes.
Build a multidisciplinary global BI and product team and engage Group, Regional, and OpCo CFOs, Finance users, vendors, and implementation partners.
Balance global reporting standards with valid regional and business-line needs.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services.
Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants.
Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and other expenses, up to $720 per year.
Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of employee contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution.
Flexible Paid Time Off for exempt employees.
Three weeks of PTO for non-exempt employees.
Two weeks of paid Winter Break.
Ten company holidays, including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day.
Summer Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent.