Manager, Marketing Finance (DTC Finance Team)

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team:

At Disney Streaming, we’re building the future of media and entertainment. In just four years, we’ve created the must-have streaming homes of Marvel, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, 20th Century Studios, Hulu, and ESPN+ (and many more iconic brands). We do this through utilizing cutting-edge technology and pushing the envelope to bring stories to life – stories that may start at Disney Streaming, but go on to impact our movies, products, parks and resorts, and media networks. Disney Streaming is a business unit within The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Entertainment segment that includes all consumer-facing digital video subscription services across the company.

Now is your chance to join our talented and highly visible team, with backgrounds in media, marketing, investment banking, and management consulting. Disney Streaming Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Finance is seeking a Manager to join the team, reporting to the Sr. Manager, Strategic Marketing Finance. This person will play a key role in supporting Streaming’s business and financial leadership with financial, strategic planning and analytical support related to all aspects of Disney Streaming Marketing.

What You Will Do:

• Own subscriber lifetime values (‘LTV’), including project management across Finance and Data Science as well as distilling insights and socializing the LTV narrative to various business stakeholders
• Provide executive stakeholders with highly visible, ad hoc analysis, insights, and executive level reporting to support key business objectives
• Collaborate with marketing, finance, data, and analytics teams to build and manage tools to track and optimize marketing spend while ensuring standardization of metrics across platforms and teams
• Lead projects around marketing’s impact on Disney Streaming’s subscriber base, revenue, operating income and return on investment, both from a pro-forma and post-mortem perspective
• Provide marketing insights and expertise for cross-team Marketing and Finance projects, such as analyzing A/B tests, advising on upcoming promotions, or adjusting the subscriber acquisition funnels for marketing initiatives
• Work in partnership with regional counterparts on contextualizing marketing KPI nuances across territories, such as share of wholesale, service penetration, competitive factors, and other relevant KPIs

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• At least five years of relevant finance/business experience in media/entertainment, management/strategy consulting, investment banking, equity research, or analytics
• Understanding of subscription, direct-to-consumer, and media industry economic models
• Current knowledge of trends in the media & entertainment industry, such as M&A, strategic shifts, or product initiatives
• Proficiency in interpreting a financial P&L statement and basic financial KPIs
• Expert Excel skills; experience building operating models and analyzing large data sets while applying strategic thinking
• Excellent communication and PowerPoint skills; ability to distill analyses into structured outputs for executive-level deliverables
• Strong attention to detail across written and financial deliverables
• Ability to prioritize, sequence, and manage projects of varying complexity and length from end-to-end
• Capacity to multi-task, work collaboratively with different teams in a fast-paced environment, and keep supervisor promptly informed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior leadership experience a plus
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Snowflake and coding languages such as SQL, R and Python is preferred but not required
• CPA, CFA or MBA preferred
• Experience leading and developing a team is preferred

Education:

• BA/BS required, preferred in Accounting / Finance / Economics

Additional Information:

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits

At The Walt Disney Company, everyone belongs! We want our employees to be themselves as this diversity promotes creativity, innovation, and overall helps us better serve our Disney guests and employees. Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive culture is unwavering, and we take great pride in the culture we’ve created. We invite you to belong!  Apply today.
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $130,800 to $159,800 per year and in Glendale, CA & Santa Monica, CA is $124,800 to $152,500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.