SVP, Finance Innovation

#WeAreParamount on a mission to unleash the power of content… you in? We’ve got the brands, we’ve got the stars, we’ve got the   power   to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we’re missing is… YOU! Becoming a part of Paramount means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees – and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.   Overview:  The Senior Vice President, Finance Innovation is a newly created, high-visibility leadership role responsible for reimagining how the Finance organization operates through the application of artificial intelligence and agentic automation. This role will identify, champion, and implement AI-driven opportunities across the Finance function, with a particular focus on building agentic workflows and AI systems capable of autonomously executing multi-step financial processes with human oversight, across Accounting, Forecasting & FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and operational finance areas unique to a media and entertainment enterprise, including Production Finance and Participations & Residuals. This leader will serve as the bridge between Finance, Technology, and Data/AI teams, translating complex financial processes into scalable, intelligent automation while maintaining rigorous controls, auditability, and compliance standards appropriate for a large public company. The successful candidate will combine deep finance domain expertise with a strong point of view on emerging AI capabilities, and the organizational influence to drive adoption across a broad and often decentralized finance ecosystem. As Finance advances its Fusion systems integration, this leader will be a key voice in shaping how that effort intersects with Finance's broader innovation and automation agenda.

Define and lead the enterprise Finance Innovation strategy and multi-year  roadmap for AI and agentic workflow adoption across all Finance sub-functions. Partner with the CFO organization and Finance leadership to identify, prioritize, and business-case AI opportunities based on value creation, risk profile, and feasibility.  Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of use cases spanning close and consolidation, reconciliations, forecasting and variance analysis, cash and liquidity management, tax provision and compliance, and production finance/participations & residuals calculations and reporting. Stay ahead of the external AI and finance-technology landscape (agentic frameworks, LLM-based finance copilots, RPA-to-agentic evolution) and translate relevant developments into actionable internal opportunities. Partner with Product, Technology, Data & Analytics, and external delivery partners on agentic workflow and AI-tool initiatives as the Finance domain voice, defining use cases, finance requirements, and success criteria, and providing continuous feedback through design, build, and deployment. Product and Technology direct solution design, engineering, and production deployment; this role ensures what gets built reflects finance process reality and business need. Own finance-side accountability across the delivery lifecycle: opportunity identification and prioritization, requirements definition, controls and change management within Finance, driving adoption, and validating realized value while Product and Technology own solution design, build, and rollout execution. Specify the finance control requirements agentic systems must meet: human-in-the-loop oversight, exception handling, and escalation, and validate that the frameworks Product and Technology implement keep those systems within Finance's risk, controls, and SOX/regulatory boundaries.   Convene Internal Audit, SOX, and Compliance to define the control and documentation standards AI-driven finance