Manager, Financial Accounting

Job ID 10130219 Location Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Sep. 05, 2025

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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

This role will be an integral part of the Disney controllership retain team, overseeing accounting work and controls performed by Capgemini for global Intercompany accounting, as well as the Publishing line of business. In addition, this role will lead the global intercompany governance, and coordinate across functions including tax and legal to ensure strict adherence to tax, statutory, US GAAP, and transfer pricing requirements.

The Intercompany Accounting team is responsible for managing intercompany accounting activities across all Disney segments, including Corporate, Disney Experiences, and Disney Entertainment. This role has interaction with a broad array of corporate and segment management personnel. It represents a unique opportunity to provide ongoing intercompany accounting and transfer pricing oversight, as well as be involved with key initiatives and special projects within the Company.

The Global Publishing business is comprised of self-published and vertically integrated Disney and Nat Geo titles, Marvel Comics, and licensed publishing. This role will provide services to our Publishing business partners and ensure overall strong financial controls.

What You Will Do

Intercompany Accounting:

Lead the transition of intercompany accounting processes to Capgemini, including ensuring robust and complete process documentation and training.
Oversee the day-to-day accounting for intercompany processes across the enterprise, initially managing the Disney IC team through December 2025, and then transitioning the work to Capgemini. This position will be expected to have daily interaction with the Capgemini team, ensuring that processes are adhered to and financial transactions are recorded timely and accurately.
Partner with Corporate Tax, Legal, and the various LOB controllership teams to design and implement new intercompany processes that are driven by business changes, acquisitions and divestions, and/or changes in transfer pricing/tax requirements and regulations, as well as to ensure overall compliance with tax, statutory and transfer pricing requirements with respect to all IC accounting.
Oversee the monthly and quarterly intercompany close processes, including review of critical close deliverables, variance analysis, and performance of all Sarbanes Oxley controls
Recruit, manage and develop two team members located in Orlando, and indirectly oversee the Capgemini resources which are providing accounting services to Disney for intercompany and publishing.
Serve as a subject matter expert and key contributor towards our upcoming implementation of Blackline as our end to end intercompany accounting tool.
Manage master data for intercompany transactions, including standardization of general ledger accounts, management of approved intercompany trading partners, and other coding blocks utilized for consistent, efficient and accurate financial reporting
Oversee highly complex IC transactions, including Producer Share, Captive Procurement entity IC reconciliations, and cost sharing, and coordinate HR changes that affect intercompany accounting within multiple Remote Workforce entities
Ensure IC AR/AP and IC Rev/Expense are in balance for quarter close, assist Capgemini with investigating variances, and partner with Enterprise Reporting to ensure that IC is properly eliminated in consolidation
Identify and drive standardization and process improvements for IC accounting, including leveraging automation where possible
Lead IC related ad hoc requests and projects as required, including but not limited to new system implementations, GL account clean up, domestic intercompany matching and clearing, company code mergers and liquidations, and ad hoc reporting requests

Publishing Accounting:

Oversee the publishing accounting work to be performed by Capgemini, including serving as a subject matter expert to assist with issues and knowledge gaps, and provide a point of escalation
Ensure strong financial controls and accurate financial results are consistently performed by the Capgemini team, including monthly and quarterly financial reviews and KPI discussions
Manage publishing accounting processes that remain with the retain team, including
Serve as the primary point of contact for Publishing business partners for issue resolution, esclations, ad hoc requests, and/or new process implementation due to operational or regulatory changes

Required Qualifications & Skills

7+ years of experience in accounting roles
At least 3-5 years of management experience
Prior experience with leading a team, with proven leadership skills.
Experience working with third parties in an outsource or consulting model.
This role requires someone who can work well under pressure, handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, effectively prioritize work, and effectively communicate across all levels and functions.
Strong client service skills and a can-do mentality are critical for success in this role. Responsibilities will often be ad hoc in nature so recurring; structure work will often need to be balanced with the unexpected.
Proficient in US GAAP
Effective communicator, a driver who achieves results, preferably with knowledge of intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, and/or the publishing business, including inventory, supply chain, and royalties.
SAP experience is highly beneficial.

Preferred Qualifications

CPA or MPA

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business

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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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