Sr. Program Manager - Project

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses.

Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

This role is located within the Enterprise Products Organization under the Financial Value Chain business solutions area. Finance Value Chains will be delivering Priority Business Solutions aligned with the enterprise architecture for the Finance, Tax and Treasury Value Chains. We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own the core financial systems and related functions domain technology roadmap.

The Sr. Program Manager is responsible for delivering programs and projects across the Core Finance value chains. The span of the role will encompass portfolio planning, project management, delivery execution, and strategic planning.

This is an estimated 18-month Project Hire position, with no guarantee of permanent placement.

• Accountable for technical delivery of large-scale, complex finance system implementations
• Lead the delivery of projects with a team consisting of project managers, solution architects, product and engineering (S/W) teams
• Collaborate closely with partners across the organization including business partners, other technology partners and delivery managers
• Interface with key partners and vendors, ensuring they understand both program and project deliverables, meet timing and cost deadlines, and collaborate with internal project stakeholders to achieve project results
• Actively lead project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification
• Lead project approval activities
• Actively lead in establishing and tracking progress to key performance indicators
• Evaluate and track overall project health and status; produce actionable insights
• Identify and address project delivery problems and shortfalls, proposing and actioning solutions
• Ensure Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) are logged and actioned, and work with project management and execution teams to resolve items
• Proactively identify and lead in the resolution of issues and conflicts
• Escalate to leadership and vendors as appropriate to drive results
• Lead/participate in sourcing and contracting activities
• Review program expenditures against the program operating expense and capital budgets with the project management team
• Continuously advise leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track
• Communicate successes supported by metrics/KPIs illustrating the business value of IT solutions
• Ensure clear communication of project scopes, timing, prioritization, budgets, resource needs, and progress on an ongoing basis
• Build strong relationships and partner with large and diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels, from end users to executives, across the enterprise
• Participate in strategic planning and road mapping for the portfolio
• Mentor team members

• 7+ years of relevant experience leading large complex program implementations
• Experience establishing and driving strategy and design for, and implementing and/or upgrading major ERP, Finance, or HR platforms
• Experience leading large project teams including architects, developers, operations, PMs, business analysts, and vendor partners
• Experience managing program, project and team budget and financials
• Experience with Security and Compliance
• Finance, Accounting…