Finance Transformation Manager; Project
Listed on 2026-10-12
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Business Systems & Technology Analysis, Business Intelligence
Job
Location Burbank, California, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
Date posted Oct. 09, 2026
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company 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 Finance Transformation mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The team drives competitive advantage by enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
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.
The position sits at the intersection of business architecture, data strategy, product ownership, technical delivery, and finance process transformation. The initial focus is implementing a Finance Data Layer, a scalable data lakehouse that provides trusted, governed, and analytics-ready data to Finance systems and applications, including Enterprise Performance Management, business intelligence reporting and analytics, and AI and machine learning use cases.
What You Will Do- 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…
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