Description
The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment (DE) group includes the company’s full portfolio of entertainment media and content business globally, including streaming (Disney+ and Hulu).
Disney is seeking a Senior Analyst to play a key role in supporting the direct-to-consumer business, focused on Disney+ International. They will assist the subscriber and revenue business planning and communication with the local team, helping to identify key business issues, provide solutions, and evaluate strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Assist the region manager in collaborating with local regional teams on the subscriber business planning process with full understanding and justification of key underlying subscription metrics based on in-depth trending analysis and assessment of future initiatives.
- Maintain a strong understanding of operating performance, major deals and transactions, issues and challenges facing the businesses, and relevant trends in the streaming business.
- Work with region manager to provide strategic recommendations for new business initiatives, help quantify any business issue, and analyze large amounts of subscriber data from previous similar events at DTC.
- Work with the local team to understand and build both future and existing partnerships into subscriber forecast model.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
- Minimum two years of professional work experience in media, tech, strategy, business planning, management consulting, or investment banking/private equity
- Bachelor’s degree with a major in Finance, Economics or similar field with an analytical bias.
- Strong Excel-based business modeling skills are required, including analyzing large amounts of data to drive decision making; experience modeling subscription or recurring-revenue businesses is a plus.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills (including PowerPoint) and ability to simplify sophisticated matters for an executive audience
- Ability to work cross functionally in a team environment, managing many stakeholders and building relationships throughout the company
- Extremely organized with the ability to prioritize activities, manage timelines, and deal effectively with pressure
- Self-motivated and comfortable working without mentorship, in a fast-growing environment with multiple partners
- A passion for the media industry, international business, and content as well as a natural curiosity
- Familiarity with working in or with global, large organizations is a plus
- Demonstrated experience and/or knowledge of international business is a plus