# Finance Transformation Manager (Project Hire)

**Company**: The Walt Disney Company
**Location**: Burbank, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,300.00-$172,500.00 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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.

**Responsibilities**

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- enterprise data strategy
- data platform implementation
- data product delivery
- Finance Transformation
- project management
- leadership
- communication
- data analysis
- SQL
- Python
- Java

### Nice to have
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- SAP systems
- Oracle EPM
- Tableau
- Power BI
- dbt
- Airflow
- CI/CD practices
- data governance
- master data management
- metadata management

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