Senior Accountant

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Job description

Job Description

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn't stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

The Senior Accountant will play a key role on the Peacock and NBCU Direct-to-Consumer controllership team. The position will report to the Director, Accounting, and will work closely with the Direct-to-Consumer finance team and collaborate with Controllership across the NBCUniversal portfolio.

This position will support the monthly close and the overall accounting processes to ensure accurate and timely reporting. The role will support the (i) standardization of existing processes with the rest of NBCU's TV & Streaming group, (ii) identification of business process efficiencies, and (iii) implementation of best practices. This position is expected to challenge the status quo and think of more enhanced approaches and methodologies to support Peacock's overall close and control structure.

Responsibilities:

Prepare and record accurate and timely journal entries within SAP

Assist with month-end and quarter-end accounting close to ensure deadlines are met and all items are recorded

Assemble monthly balance sheet account reconciliations in Blackline

Partner with Manager to account for CIP and Fixed Assets by creating projects, placing assets into service, and ensuring depreciation expense and ending balances are accurately recorded

Partnering with UK finance team to verify monthly cost transfers, intercompany elimination, transfer pricing and invoice generation for cash settlement

Work alongside Finance to summarize billing data for platform revenues and generate invoices within SAP

Foreign currency impact and analysis, specifically between GBP and USD

Finance support for cost analysis, including financial walks, what-if scenarios and other ad-hoc requests

Support the Direct-to-Consumer finance team in all planning processes, including Long Range Planning, Annual Budgets and Operator Reviews

Support business process by partnering with other departments, including but not limited to FP&A, Accounts payable, treasury, tax, human resources, IT, and legal

Support ad hoc data requests, deliverables and other controllership deadlines

Continually improve business processes through automation, thoughtful analysis and researching or benchmarking best practices inside and outside of the company

Assist process owners in documentation of SOX controls

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