Senior Director, Global Insights and Reporting

Universal Music Group•Santa Monica, CA
•$202,000 - $265,000

About The Position

The Senior Director, Global Insights & Reporting leads the Finance Insights & Reporting pillar of the Finance Intelligence Center of Excellence (FinCo). The 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, and human-reviewed GenAI and advanced analytics within Management Reporting. It owns product vision, UI/UX, approved semantic implementation, local extensions, design and build, support, adoption, and retirement. It collaborates with authoritative Finance owners, who retain responsibility for business narratives, interpretation, conclusions, decisions, and actions. The position owns the Finance reporting product portfolio and lifecycle, including platform strategy and evaluation, requirements, roadmaps, delivery, acceptance, support, adoption, and value realization. It sets global design and access practices, implements only approved semantics, and coordinates with Finance Data Products, Semantics & Stewardship, Data Quality, and enterprise data and technology teams. It also builds a multidisciplinary global BI and product team and engages Finance stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners.

Requirements

  • 15 or more 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.
  • Serve as Finance Business Owner for the FinCo Intelligence Platform, owning requirements, backlog, adoption, and value for BI, Management Reporting, self-service, write-back, role-based access, AI chat, and approved analytical insights.
  • Lead Finance evaluation, proof of value, recommendations, 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 OpCos.
  • Set reusable global and local design, visualization, accessibility, and mobile standards, and approve presentation-only local extensions using Data Management-approved semantics.
  • Implement approved semantics in BI models and enable governed self-service; define personas, report-access tiers, and consumption needs, while Finance owners approve sensitive access.
  • Own the lifecycle of human-reviewed GenAI and advanced analytics used within Management Reporting, including intake, backlog, requirements, acceptance, adoption, benefits, support, and retirement.
  • Own design, build, testing, product UAT, content acceptance, release, functional support, telemetry, enhancement, and retirement.
  • Own 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 dependencies, and deliver integrated FinCo outcomes.
  • Build a multidisciplinary global BI and product team and engage Group, Regional, and OpCo CFOs, Finance users, vendors, and implementation partners.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 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 more, up to $720 per year.
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
  • 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) 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.
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