The Walt Disney Company

Senior Manager – Data, Analytics and Finance Transformation

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Florida

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerJava.NETOraclePythonSQLTableau

About the role

  • Lead the newly formed team responsible for driving finance data, forecasting, and analytics strategy across all DSE lines of business
  • Enhance data-driven decision-making capabilities within finance and the broader organization
  • Spearhead Finance Transformation initiatives across DSE and collaborate with Disney Experiences and Enterprise Finance
  • Maintain new data governance and reporting standards
  • Lead and/or support ad hoc projects leveraging insights from newly acquired data and/or tools
  • Provide project management and high-quality, thoughtful insights to support short-term and long-term financial success of DSE
  • Work with large data sets and translate them into easily digestible outputs and dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, AI)
  • Present findings and recommendations to senior executives and stakeholders across TWDC
  • Partner with finance, business, and IT leaders to design and build tools and reporting
  • Develop a transformation network across LOBs to share best practices and instill continuous improvement
  • Assess business financial performance and identify areas of opportunity through data analytics
  • Support development and reporting of relevant LOB KPIs

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in developing and leading technical and finance teams that have driven large scale projects and associated change management impacts
  • Fluency in communicating complex ideas and data sets graphically in an easily digestible way for senior-level executives
  • Strong project management skills for projects of any size or duration
  • Takes initiative and is a self-starter, with the ability to lead projects and team from inception to completion
  • Familiarity with working in or with large organizations and driving large scale change
  • Understanding of finance and business needs and thought process and ability to translate those into technical requirements
  • Proactive and adaptive communication style, able to effectively communicate with people from various disciplines, organizations, geographic locations and management levels
  • Analytical and financial modeling skills applying strategic thinking as well as an understanding of execution needs
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and lead others in day-to-day assignments and complex projects
  • Ability to encourage collaboration within a team and with external partners
  • Proven experience with evaluating new technologies and their application to business environments
  • Demonstrated strength in translating technical terms into easy-to-understand outputs
  • Experience implementing automation solutions
  • Experience working with and curating structured and unstructured data
  • Extensive experience in finance, particularly in forecasting and planning (preferred)
  • Proficiency in developing complex financial models and performing F&P consolidations (preferred)
  • Strong understanding of GAAP accounting principles and practices and its relationship to a forecast and plan (preferred)
  • Advanced user of Tableau, Power BI, and/or other data visualization software (preferred)
  • Previous experience in Python / SQL and/or object-oriented programming (e.g., C#/.NET, Java) (preferred)
  • Previous experience with cloud deployments in AWS and Snowflake database and/or enterprise SQL database platforms (MS SQL, Oracle, My SQL, SSRS) (preferred)
  • Experience with Docker, version control in GitHub / GitLab, and CI/CD pipelines setup (preferred)
  • Bachelor of Science in Finance, Data Science, Statistics, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent technical background