Location: GA-Atlanta Job Title: Director, Financial Data Reporting Position Overview The Director, Financial Data Reporting leads the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise financial data and business intelligence solutions. This role combines deep expertise in data engineering, warehousing, analytics, financial systems, and technical leadership to improve business processes, expand access to trusted information, and enable timely, informed decision-making. The Director owns the full systems development life cycle for complex reporting and data initiatives—from requirements and solution design through testing, implementation, production support, and continuous optimization.
The role also directs the configuration of interactive dashboards, including global and local filters, to meet a broad range of finance and business requirements. Serving as a trusted partner to executive leadership, Corporate Finance, IT, Security, and cross-functional stakeholders, the Director translates business needs into scalable technical solutions, strengthens data governance and controls, resolves performance challenges, and advances the organization’s financial reporting capabilities. Leadership Competencies Strategic leadership: Connects data and technology priorities to business strategy and long-term enterprise needs. Business partnership: Builds credibility across Finance, IT, Security, operations, vendors, and executive leadership. Execution and accountability: Converts complex requirements into reliable solutions and delivers measurable results across competing priorities. Continuous improvement: Uses data, technology, and disciplined problem-solving to simplify processes and improve performance. Communication and influence: Presents complex information clearly and drives alignment across technical and nontechnical audiences. Essential
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Responsibilities Lead the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise financial data reporting, data warehouse, and business intelligence solutions. Manage the full systems development life cycle across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring solutions align with stakeholder requirements, technical standards, delivery commitments, and business priorities. Own the AWS (RDS MySQL, S3) and SQL Server reporting databases, including moving the remaining legacy reporting to AWS. Own month-end close data processing: WideOrbit, programmatic, digital and MAI revenue loads and the journal entry/invoice files into SAP, including reconciliations and controls. Own the Power BI estate: reports, data models, scheduled refreshes and subscriptions, including daily revenue pacing and the daily liquidity summary. Lead digital analytics data engineering on Google Cloud (BigQuery) and the Tableau-to-Power BI migration. Direct the contractors and vendors supporting data and reporting. Maintain documentation, runbooks and backup coverage so no critical process depends on one person.
Evaluate and recommend system architecture that improves scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and access to critical financial data. Essential
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Responsibilities (continued) Build and optimize data processes that integrate multiple disparate data sets into a trusted reporting environment, reducing executive reporting cycle times. Partner with Corporate Finance and cross-functional teams to identify reporting needs, resolve data and warehouse performance issues, and deliver timely, actionable insights. Oversee the integration of WideOrbit, WideOrbit Programs, MAI, Concur, Costar, Darwin, Operative, ADP, Blackline, Magnit, and related vendor systems with SAP and the broader reporting environment. Design and configure interactive dashboards using global and local filters to support a diverse matrix of financial and operational requirements. Establish data governance, validation, reconciliation, documentation, and quality-control practices that support accurate, consistent, secure, and audit-ready financial reporting. Partner with Finance, IT, and Security to maintain appropriate data access, privacy, retention, and information-security standards.
Provide production support and operational oversight, including monitoring, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, change management, and business continuity for critical reporting solutions. Define and monitor success measures for data availability, reporting accuracy, system performance, user adoption, project delivery, and stakeholder satisfaction. Provide technical leadership, communicate complex data concepts clearly, manage key vendor relationships, and serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders, business partners, and technical teams.
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Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience may be considered. 10 or more years of progressive experience in financial data reporting, data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, or financial systems, including at least five years leading enterprise initiatives, technical teams, or cross-functional programs. Demonstrated success delivering executive reporting solutions and leading complex systems integrations, cloud or data warehouse migrations, and ERP transformations. Advanced knowledge of SQL-based environments, cloud data platforms, dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, dashboard design, data quality practices, and financial reporting architecture. Experience with project management, SDLC governance, quality assurance, production support, and vendor management in a complex operating environment. Proven ability to influence senior leaders, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, manage competing priorities, and support multiple business units.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, and executive-presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to financial, operational, and technical audiences.
Preferred
Qualifications Master’s degree in a related field. Experience with SAP, Power BI, AWS MySQL, Google Cloud (BigQuery), and enterprise financial or media-industry systems. Relevant certification such as CPA, CMA, CBIP, Microsoft Power BI, AWS, GCP, SAP, PMP, or CSM. About Cox Media Group CMG Media Corporation (d/b/a Cox Media Group) is an industry-leading media company with unparalleled brands, award-winning content, and exceptional team members. CMG provides valuable local and national journalism and entertainment content to the people and communities it serves. The company's businesses encompass 17 high-quality, market-leading television brands in 9 markets; 45 top-performing radio stations delivering multiple genres of content in 9 markets; and numerous streaming and digital platforms. CMG's TV portfolio includes multiple primary affiliates of ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Telemundo and MyNetworkTV, as well as several valuable news and independent stations. For more information about CMG, visit www.coxmediagroup.com Req #: 2450 #LI-Onsite