Project Financial Analyst

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About the Role & Team

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.

As part of the Technology Operations organization, you’ll join a passionate group of technologists addressing complex, enterprise-wide challenges in dynamic, high-impact environment. Whether we’re supporting productions, managing data centers, or ensuring system reliability, our teams provide world-class foundational services to a diverse set of technology stakeholders across the company’s businesses.

We are seeking a Project Financial Analyst to support finance-related deliverables for Technology Operations projects and or/programs. This person will work closely with the existing Program Management, Business Operations, Financial Operations, and Enterprise Technology Finance teams to support detailed financial tracking needs. Functions include financial budgeting/planning, tracking actuals, preparing accruals, conducting financial forecasting, and liaising with project owners to ensure delivery is within budget.

What You’ll Do:

• Support, manage and track the project financials for multiple active programs or projects of moderate complexity while working closely with the appropriate business and functional partners
• Track detailed financials based on the project plan, commitments, contracts/SOWs, invoice management  (day-to-day financial management of project spend)
• Prepare and update bottom-up project financial plans, forecasts, and other forward-looking financial reviews, proactively identifying issues, and providing commentary
• Report monthly actuals activity on project financials and lead meetings with project leaders monthly to review project forecast updates, clearly articulating project variances to forecast and outline cause of change
• Serve as a trusted point-of-contact for questions around project financials
• Track overall Technology spend and engage with finance in quarterly financial planning and reporting
• Provide input on project accounting/finance process improvements
• Compile and log project costs and submit to management and finance for quarterly accruals and AOP tracking
• Assist in annual planning activities
• Ensure compliance with Sourcing and Procurement policies and best practices
• Maintain purchase order (PO) tracking process and work with finance to ensure timely processing PO requests and corresponding invoices
• Oversee the procurement cycle from forecast to project to purchasing to inventory in conjunction with applicable managers
• Coordinate fiscal planning with Project and Program Management tracked initiatives
• Aggregate data and tracking for inventory and utilization reports
• Facilitate the acquisition of equipment or software with casual buyer
• Prepare financial accruals, coordinate quarter closing, and organize annual budgeting across teams in Technology Operations
• Coordinate operations projects in conjunction with Technology and Project Coordinators

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience managing multiple project financials, priorities, and tasks across teams
• Experience preparing detailed monthly financial project/program reports and leading meetings
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership
• High-level professional experience with office productivity suites (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
• Strong project management and resource planning experience 
• Functional understanding of financial processes and terminology
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to multitask in a highly complex, diverse environment
• Comfortable around technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working for a large company and within a matrixed organization
• Experience supporting technology organizations
• Experience in Digital Production environments and overall digital production support
• Ability to construct, manage and oversee a complex budget
• Experience with service management tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira Service Manager)
• Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies (e.g. Smartsheet, Jira, Agile, Waterfall)

Required Education:

• Bachelors in Finance, Accounting, Business Management, Technology and/or equivalent work experience

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