Director, Financial Systems Transformation

New York City, New York

About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed Media Enterprises (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives.

Business Area: Administrative

Job Category: Information Technology

Salary: $175,000.00- $200,000.00 USD 

Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to lead our Financial Systems Transformation efforts. This is a full-time, hybrid position in our

New York City office at least twice a week.

This role involves leading initiatives to enhance financial and business operations, ensuring effective system integrations, and driving continuous improvement to support strategic objectives. This role will collaborate with cross-functional teams, partner with executive leadership and other leaders across the business, manage project timelines, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional knowledge of NetSuite applications, industry experience, best practices, and a pragmatic mindset in implementing business requirements. This role will require engaging with key stakeholders, identifying business requirements, functional and process design, configuration, testing, and end-user training.

You Will

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand, enhance, and optimize critical financial systems. 
• Configure NetSuite workflows, data validations, integrations, dashboards and relevant reports to optimize system functionality and drive automation and reporting analytics.
• Migrate legacy transactional and entity data from existing systems to NetSuite.
• Manage the deployment process and ensure seamless software launch and continuity of business operations during the transition.
• Lead change management efforts and apply systems development life cycle policies and procedures.
• Manage design and execution of internal controls over financial systems.
• Troubleshoot issues that arise during configuration and provide ongoing post-implementation support to optimize user adoption.
• Build a roadmap for BuzzFeed’s financial systems, incorporate potentially new and/or creative solutions, and then plan, manage, and communicate project status and milestone achievements.
• Drive delivery according to the agreed-upon scope, time, and budget. 
• Drive process transformation and educate operations teams on best practices and effective usage of systems.

You Have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance/Business, or IT field with a background in accounting is a plus.
• Extensive hands-on experience in performing NetSuite implementations, integrations, and/or customizations for NetSuite ERP Financials, Purchasing, Reporting, Projects and Cash Applications in relevant consulting or industry roles.
• Experience as a SaaS financial systems owner in an environment managing multiple support/project functions alongside Accounting / ERP / CRM / Data warehouse partners.
• Experience with other IT financial systems including Workday HCM, Strongpoint, etc.
• Experience working with Risk and Audit functions in implementing and maintaining SOX-compliant controls and managing audit requests.
• Familiarity with ETL Technology (Boomi, MuleSoft, Informatica, Pentaho).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; proven ability to communicate effectively with business partners at various levels and the ability to translate customer business requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Proven ability to communicate effectively about competing organizational priorities and projects being managed while managing stakeholder interactions, resolving conflicts, and communicating with different audiences contextually.
• Experience documenting and analyzing processes, procedures, and/or policies.

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more
• An attractive and equitable compensation package, including salary.
• A generous benefits program featuring paid time off, unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more.