Finance Transformation Manager (Project Hire)

The Walt Disney Company; Burbank (CA); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Finance Transformation Manager in Burbank. This project hire focuses on implementing a Finance Data Layer and data lakehouse to enable EPM, BI analytics, and AI/ML initiatives across Disney Entertainment and enterprise finance teams.

You will lead strategy, design, and delivery of enterprise data capabilities, collaborating with product, engineering, and finance stakeholders to ensure scalable, governed data solutions and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise data strategy or finance data transformation.
• Experience leading cross‑functional data initiatives from strategy to delivery.
• Understanding of modern data stack, cloud data architecture, lakehouse patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead data strategy and roadmap for enterprise Finance data capabilities.
• Drive Finance Data Layer / lakehouse implementation for EPM/BI/AI.
• Translate planning, forecasting, reporting needs into data specs and plans.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable, governed data solutions.
• Support end‑to‑end data projects from discovery to operational support.
• Coordinate engineering for large‑scale data platforms and data quality.

Skills

Data strategy

Data architecture

Data lakehouse

Finance processes

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, CS, IS, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

SAP S/4 / BW / HANA

Oracle EPM

Tableau

Power BI

dbt

Python

Airflow

SQL

Job description

Finance Transformation Manager (Project Hire through April 1st 2028)

Job ID 10160833 Location Burbank, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Oct. 09, 2026

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

About the Role & Team

The Finance Transformation mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The team drives competitive advantage by enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Finance Transformation Manager plays a pivotal role in coordinating and managing global finance integration and transformation efforts, contributing to the company’s Future-Fit Finance Organization. This role leads the strategy, design, and implementation of enterprise data capabilities that enable Finance Transformation across Disney Entertainment and the broader enterprise.

The position sits at the intersection of business architecture, data strategy, product ownership, technical delivery, and finance process transformation. The initial focus is implementing a Finance Data Layer, a scalable data lakehouse that provides trusted, governed, and analytics-ready data to Finance systems and applications, including Enterprise Performance Management, business intelligence reporting and analytics, and AI and machine learning use cases.

What You Will Do

• Lead the data strategy and implementation roadmap for enterprise Finance data capabilities, ensuring alignment to Finance Transformation priorities, company-wide data strategies, and long‑term technology architecture.
• Drive the implementation of a Finance Data Layer / data lakehouse to support EPM, BI reporting and analytics, AI/ML applications, and other Finance platforms and services.
• Translate Finance planning, forecasting, reporting, and operational needs into business requirements, technical requirements, user stories, data product specifications, and implementation plans.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, delivery managers, solution architects, engineers, analytics teams, and support operations to deliver end‑to‑end data solutions that are scalable, governed, and fit for business use.
• Support cross‑functional project teams through the full delivery lifecycle, from data source discovery and ingestion design through modeling, transformation, validation, UAT, deployment, and operational support.
• Coordinate and guide engineering efforts required to build large‑scale data platform capabilities, including ingestion pipelines, medallion architecture, dimensional models, data quality frameworks, security standards, and ready‑to‑use datasets.
• Define and manage platform and program priorities, balancing business value, delivery timelines, technical debt, platform stability, cost optimization, and ongoing enhancement needs.
• Establish success measures for data capabilities, including data quality, data availability, query performance, user adoption, delivery milestones, cost efficiency, and business outcomes.
• Support Finance Transformation initiatives by connecting process optimization, business capability design, and data implementation across Disney Entertainment and enterprise Finance teams.
• Communicate clearly with executive, business, functional, and technical audiences, translating complex data and technology concepts into practical decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and next steps.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of progressive experience in enterprise data strategy, data platform implementation, data product delivery, Finance Transformation, or related technology transformation roles.
• Experience leading complex, cross‑functional data implementation initiatives from strategy and requirements through delivery, validation, adoption, and operational support.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, modern data stack concepts, cloud data architecture, data lakehouse patterns, and scalable data pipeline delivery.
• Working knowledge of Finance processes, including planning, forecasting, reporting, performance management, financial data definitions, and the role of data in enabling modern Finance capabilities.
• Experience translating business needs into functional requirements, technical requirements, data models, source‑to‑target mappings, implementation plans, and user acceptance criteria.
• Experience partnering with engineers and architects on data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, data quality, access controls, and production‑ready datasets.
• Strong project and delivery leadership skills, including roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and delivery governance.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both business and technical audiences, including senior leaders, Finance stakeholders, architects, engineers, analysts, and external partners.
• Highly collaborative, detail‑oriented, deliverable‑focused, and able to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex issues, and manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise data domains; Finance data experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, SAP systems such as S/4, BW, HANA, or BDC, and EPM platforms such as Oracle EPM.
• Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• Experience with data governance, master data management, metadata management, data quality frameworks, and role‑based access controls.
• Familiarity with dbt, Python, Airflow, SQL, Java, CI/CD practices for data, and performance optimization for cloud data platforms.
• Experience in entertainment, streaming, media, or similarly complex global business environments.
• Formal project management, Agile, Six Sigma, consulting, PMP, MBA, CPA, or related transformation credentials are a plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following areas: Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, California is $141,300.00-$172,500.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far‑reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world‑class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

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