Finance Transformation Manager (Project Hire)

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.