Senior Financial Systems Analyst, Business Processes

This is an office-based role. 4 days working in the Hammersmith, London office with 1 day working from home (Monday or Friday).

Be you, be here, be part of the story!

At The Walt Disney Company, magic is more than just a word; it is core to our identity. For a century, we've been inspiring imaginations, celebrating diversity, and bringing families together through our beloved stories, characters, and experiences. From our iconic theme parks and resorts to our groundbreaking films, television shows, interactive media and products, we're dedicated to creating magic that knows no bounds.

We are on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic team. Join us in crafting the magic behind the scenes!
 

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 positioned at the centre of The Walt Disney Company, the forward-thinkers at Financial Systems constantly pursue new insights and groundbreaking technologies to help our business drive value, all the while gaining something valuable from the experience themselves. An opportunity exists to support this dynamic organisation as a Sr. Financial Analyst in our London-based team. Specifically, this role will work with various business partners including to senior level for the following value chains:

- Order to Cash

- Banking and Treasury

- Source to Pay

- Travel & Expense
 

What You Will Do

Process Support, Process Improvement and Governance

• Supports the governance and monitoring of finance system compliance in accordance with company policies & standards as well as local statutory and SOX requirements.
• Applies knowledge and understanding of financial and accounting principles to our systems and business processes.
• Partners with various client groups and the IT department to identify system enhancement requirements and operational improvement opportunities.
• Works with EMEA Process Leads to resolve technical feasibility, priority and impact.
• Facilitates requirements capturing sessions and assists in preparing Functional Specifications
• Performs enhancement testing and participates in major system release testing to ensure there is no impact on the integrity of the system’s functionality or data.
• Create, track, resolve and close service requests to customer satisfaction via our incident management tool.
• Stay up-to-date on technology and solutions for key finance processes and business analytics.
• Prepares documentation of system and process best practices.
   

Project Management

• Leads small-scale projects or relevant workstreams of a larger project.
• Interacts with IT, other departments and subject matter experts to support implementations and enhancements.
• Drives project activities to ensure project progress is on schedule.
• Effectively communicates with management, colleagues, subject matter experts and project team members.
• Performs and/or facilitates System Integration and User Acceptance tests.
• Participates in training & development and provides expert end-user training.
   

Leadership and Strategy

• Promotes teamwork both internally and externally.
• Increases to the efficiency and morale of the team.
• Solves issues and drives solutions with sound judgement.
• Listens and asks questions to ensure understanding.
• Pulls and supervises metrics to obtain trends and patterns to identify process/system. opportunities and implement corrective action.
   

Communication

• Regularly interacts with end users and clients on matters concerning their functional area, segments and department
• Concisely develops and delivers key information; ability to develop presentations, communications and training
• Tailor messages appropriately to the audiences
• Conveys relevant information in a timely and concise manner
   

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Strong technical experience in SAP ECC 6.0 Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules
• Proven experience in implementing business processes in SAP ECC 6.0
• Deep system expertise in Source to Pay, Order to Cash and Banking as well as strong skills in the technology that supports them, SAP and Coupa
• Proven experience in participating in the full range of testing activities (including but not limited to: functional testing, user acceptance testing, and system integration testing)
• Analysis of and participation in formal change management processes - performing requirements gathering, writing functional specifications, testing, Go-Live/system implementation and hypercare
• Strong negotiating and consensus-driving abilities
• Excellent Excel skills for data analysis
• Exemplary communications skills
   

The Perks

• 25 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
• Disney+ Subscription
• Excellent parental and guardian leave
• Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
   

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.