Vice President, Finance BI and Analytics - Santa Monica, 90404

Vice President, Finance BI and Analytics - Santa Monica, 90404, United States of America

How we LEAD:

We are currently seeking an accomplished Vice President, Finance BI Platform & Analytics leader to standardize and deliver management reporting, dashboards, and analytics capabilities across UMGs finance function, ensuring globally consistent KPIs, self-service reporting, and data-driven insights that enable performance management and decision-making.

This role requires deep expertise in BI, reporting, and data visualization tools, paired with a strong understanding of finance KPIs, management reporting, and performance management. The ideal candidate can translate business needs into reporting requirements and dashboards, brings experience with AI/ML analytics applications in a finance context, and is comfortable working across both technical (data/IT) and business (finance/operations) stakeholders.

How youll CREATE:

• Standard report & dashboard design: Design and maintain standard management reports, scorecards, and dashboards that can be leveraged across territories/profit centers/business lines, incorporating unique reporting requirements across differentiated business lines and operating models; Enable self-service capabilities for timely ad-hoc analysis

• Reporting & dashboard delivery: Own generation of recurring management reports and self-service dashboards on timely cadence on behalf of divisions

• AI analytics use cases: Design and develop new AI-powered analytics use cases for Finance, in coordination with CIO/CDAO

• Legacy tool rationalization: Drive migration from fragmented reporting tools to standardized enterprise BI platform

• Finance data domain ownership: Own the finance reporting data model, incl. metric definitions, hierarchies, and calculation logic to ensure a single source of truth for management reporting, in partnership with CDAO and Corporate Controller on data governance, enterprise KPI definitions

• Cross Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Corp Controllership on shared data foundation to avoid duplication and ensure cohesion and reconcilability to global consolidated results. Partner with CIO and CDAO on BI & Analytics platform implementation to power an AI-enabled reporting and analysis infrastructure. Work with Planning/Forecasting COE and to embed standardized tools and leverage driver-inputs underpinning planning and forecast models and PBF process

• Team leadership: Build, Lead and mentor a high-performing BI & Analytics COE team

Bring your VIBE:

• 12+ years in BI, analytics, or Finance data roles, including leadership experience

• Deep expertise in BI, reporting, and data visualization tools

• Strong understanding of finance KPIs, management reporting, and performance management

• Ability to translate business needs into reporting requirements & dashboards

• Experience with AI/ML analytics applications in a finance context

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale data and reporting platforms and driving adoption by influencing senior stakeholders

• Comfortable working across technical (data/IT) and business (finance/operations) stakeholders

• This role is office-based