Location: Toronto, ON
Department: Finance
Vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role at WildBrain’s Toronto office.
Hybrid work: Employees work in a hybrid model balancing collaboration in our office and remote work.
Overview
Find a job that lets your imagination run wild! WildBrain is made up of a team of innovators and creators who bring industry-leading kids’ content and brands to families globally. We inspire imagination, put creativity first, and believe in the power of storytelling. We are constantly connecting the powers of our global team, making WildBrain a collaborative, openminded and passionate environment to work in.
To work at WildBrain means you get to create stories that let imaginations run wild. Join our team today to become part of the story!
About the Role
Reporting to the Director, Finance Transformation, the ERP Product Owner will play a key role in WildBrain's migration from Microsoft Dynamics GP to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Acting as the bridge between Finance leadership, Technology Solutions, business stakeholders, and the implementation partner, this individual will be accountable for ensuring the solution is designed and delivered in alignment with WildBrain's business objectives, financial controls, and operating model.
The ERP Product Owner will translate business requirements into product decisions, guide critical design choices, and provide leadership throughout discovery, design, build, testing, data migration, deployment, and hypercare. With deep expertise in both GP and Business Central, they will ensure the solution is scalable, auditable, supportable, and delivers the outcomes required by the business.
Job Description
Product Ownership & Business Leadership
- Act as the Product Owner for the Business Central implementation, representing the interests of Finance, Technology Solutions, and business stakeholders.
- Translate finance transformation objectives into a clear ERP product vision, roadmap, priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
- Partner closely with Finance leadership to support decisions regarding business processes, reporting requirements, internal controls, and user experience.
- Serve as the primary decision-maker for ERP design questions, business process trade-offs, and solution priorities.
- Ensure implementation decisions support both immediate business needs and long-term organizational objectives.
- Maintain ownership of the ERP roadmap beyond go-live, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and optimization.
Solution Governance & Delivery Oversight
- Act as the primary liaison between Finance, Technology Solutions, business stakeholders, implementation partners, and system owners.
- Challenge and validate proposed configurations, customizations, and solution designs to ensure they are practical, scalable, and aligned with business requirements.
- Promote standard Business Central functionality wherever possible and minimize unnecessary customization.
- Ensure the implemented solution remains aligned with established governance, financial controls, and architectural principles.
- Escalate and resolve design conflicts, business process issues, and implementation risks.
- Ensure key system knowledge, business rationale, and design decisions remain documented and retained within WildBrain.
ERP Design & Business Process Ownership
- Own and govern the core financial design framework that underpins the Business Central implementation.
- Ensure the overall financial structure accurately reflects decisions made by Finance leadership.
- Oversee and validate:
- Chart of accounts design
- Financial dimensions and dimensional accounting structures
- Legal entity and organizational hierarchies
- Multi-entity configuration
- Intercompany processing models
- Consolidation frameworks
- Master data governance standards
- Financial controls and approval workflows
- Ensure these foundational design decisions remain consistent throughout the implementation lifecycle.
- Ensure the financial "scaffolding" of the implementation remains aligned with business requirements and continues to support future-state operating needs as the build progresses.
Data Migration & Transformation
- Work closely with implementation partners and internal teams to oversee data migration activities from Dynamics GP to Business Central.
- Validate data mapping, conversion strategies, reconciliation processes, and migration outcomes.
- Leverage a detailed understanding of WildBrain's existing ERP environment to identify risks, gaps, and data quality issues early.
- Perform hands-on review and validation of financial and operational data to ensure it moves cleanly, accurately, and completely from GP into Business Central.
- Ensure financial and operational data is migrated with appropriate governance, controls, and auditability.
- Testing, Adoption & Go-Live Readiness
- Oversee system testing strategy, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and business validation activities.
- Partner with business stakeholders to ensure testing accurately reflects end-to-end operational processes.
- Support release planning, cutover activities, deployment readiness, and hypercare planning.
- Drive user adoption initiatives, business readiness activities, and post-implementation stabilization efforts.
- Ensure the delivered solution is practical, sustainable, and effective for day-to-day users across the organization.
- Remain closely involved through go-live and stabilization to ensure the implemented solution meets business expectations and intended outcomes.
Business Outcomes
- Drive the delivery of measurable business outcomes, including:
- A governed and trusted source of truth for financial actuals.
- Reduced spreadsheet dependency and manual reconciliation.
- Improved transaction-level traceability and auditability.
- Consistent multi-entity and multi-currency financial processes.
- More efficient intercompany processing and consolidations.
- Stronger master data and dimensional governance.
- Improved procure-to-pay controls and financial oversight.
- Sustainable business adoption and long-term platform ownership.
Qualifications
What You'll Bring
- Extensive experience leading ERP implementations, transformations, and enterprise business systems initiatives.
- Significant hands-on experience with both Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Experience serving as a Product Owner, ERP Lead, Business Systems Lead, Solution Lead, or Solution Architect on complex ERP transformation programs.
- Demonstrated success translating business requirements into ERP product decisions, system design, and operational outcomes.
- Extensive experience supporting multi-entity, multi-currency, and global finance environments.
- Proven ability to partner with Finance leadership and senior business stakeholders to define and deliver business process transformation.
- Experience leading ERP initiatives through discovery, design, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and ongoing optimization.
- Experience overseeing ERP data migration, testing, user adoption, and change management activities.
- Experience with Binary Stream Multi-Entity Management (MEM) strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of:
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central architecture and capabilities.
- Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture, configuration, and operational processes.
- Financial accounting and reporting processes.
- IFRS reporting environments.
- Multi-entity and multi-currency accounting models.
- Financial controls and governance frameworks.
- Intercompany processing and consolidation design.
- Dimensional accounting structures and governance.
- ERP integrations and data management principles.
- System testing, deployment, and support practices.
- Leadership Competencies
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders and implementation partners constructively.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic objectives with execution details.
- Comfortable operating independently in a highly visible transformation environment.
- Strong focus on accountability, business outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Additional Information
What We Offer
Working at WildBrain is more than a job - it’s the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful, and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive benefits, and we invest in our people and their future.
Total Rewards
At WildBrain, we strive for equitable and consistent pay practices within a robust total rewards framework. Compensation may vary within the same role based on experience, performance, specialized expertise, and overall impact.
Compensation: $115,000 to $120,000 (CAD). Base salary is part of a comprehensive total rewards package that includes:
- Retirement savings with company matching
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage, with shared premium costs from day one.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Our Hiring Process
- Initial virtual screening with our Talent Acquisition team
- Interview with the hiring manager (virtual or in person, TBD)
- Interview with 2–3 key business partners (virtual or in person, TBD)
- Role-specific assessment, where applicable
AI in Our Hiring Process
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to support and enhance the recruitment experience - for example, by organizing applications or surfacing relevant qualifications. AI is never used to make hiring decisions. All decisions are made by our hiring managers and recruitment professionals. AI tools used in our recruitment process are subject to rigorous privacy, security, and risk assessments and are applied in alignment with WildBrain’s Inclusive Hiring framework. We believe technology should enhance human judgment, not replace it.
Our Commitment
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment, we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us, a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees, stakeholders, and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and brings their authentic self to work.
We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees. We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to please still consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key! WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.
About WildBrain
At WildBrain, we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi, we are a global leader in franchise management - bringing stories to life through content production, audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, Teletubbies (2015), Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. The WildBrain Network, offering more than 1,000 channels across YouTube, FAST and AVOD, delivers premium-quality content to today’s kids and families wherever they’re watching - connecting advertisers to audiences at scale through brand-safe media solutions. WildBrain CPLG, our global licensing and consumer products arm, represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at wildbrain.com.
About WildBrain
At WildBrain, we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi, we are a global leader in franchise management - bringing stories to life through content production, audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, Teletubbies (2015), Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. The WildBrain Network, offering more than 1,000 channels across YouTube, FAST and AVOD, delivers premium-quality content to today’s kids and families wherever they’re watching - connecting advertisers to audiences at scale through brand-safe media solutions. WildBrain CPLG, our global licensing and consumer products arm, represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at wildbrain.com.
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