Manager, Financial Systems

Job ID 10133206 Location Glendale, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Nov. 07, 2025

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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

At Disney Financial Systems, you will team with the best in the business to create and build one of the most innovative teams in any industry! Uniquely we are positioned at the center of The Walt Disney Company, the forward-thinkers in Financial Systems constantly pursue new insights and innovative technologies to help the businesses we support drive value.

An opportunity exists to join our dynamic organization as Manager Financial Systems responsible for the record to consolidate functions. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Financial Systems and will lead five (5) direct reports. Come join us and be part of this dynamic team!

What You’ll Do

Lead and Inspire: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of financial systems analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Strategic Systems Leadership: Define and execute long-term strategies for financial systems, with a focus on SAP S/4HANA and related technologies supporting record to consolidate processes.
Client Partnership & Calibration: Act as a thought partner to finance and business leaders, helping shape and align system capabilities with evolving business needs.
Project Delivery Excellence: Oversee end-to-end project lifecycles—from discovery and planning to execution and post-implementation support—ensuring timely, on-budget delivery.
Process Optimization: Use data-driven insights to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation and simplification across financial processes.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal clients, technology teams, and external vendors to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
Change Leadership: Champion change management, training, and communication strategies to support adoption and maximize business value.

Required Qualifications & Skills

5+ years of staff management experience
Experience working for large company and within a matrix organization
Experience in using SAP or another ERP
Exhibit the ability to lead, mentor and develop versatile teams
Demonstrated technical proficiency in leading projects of medium to large scale and implemented change initiatives as a technical expert within a specified product or process area
Facilitate scope definition, and high-level planning, discovery, and estimation workshops for projects with cross-functional teams
Quantify cost factors to deliver project deliverables including resources, project oversight, objective risk and related contingency
Capture key assumptions and dependencies established through estimation activities
Expertly lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks of large programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget
Manage resource assignment, budget, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change control
Work with cross subject area team members to validate project assumptions and review project plans with leadership
Ensure accurate documentation of scope of work with help from cross subject area functional leads
Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams, including DFS, Technology, vendors and key functional/business teams
Must possess strong quantitative and analytical skills combined with solid business and financial savvy
Flexible, “special-projects” orientation coupled with solid ability to deliver on baseline client service obligations
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to succinctly convey relevant information across multiple levels of the organization and confidently project a professional image that develops relationship building and collaboration.
Ability to work independently on self -directed and assigned tasks under moderate direction and supervision

Preferred Qualifications

CPA or CMA license, or equivalent
PMP or other professional project management certification
Six Sigma certification
Experienced in using the Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
Experience in using Business Objects and/or Cognos reporting tools
Experience developing end user training

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Business, or a related field

Preferred Education

Graduate Degree - Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field (e.g., MAC, MBA, MIS)

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, California is $139,200.00-$170,000.00 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.

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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 Financial Services, LLC, which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

Disney Financial Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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