Senior Manager, Finance

About the role

The Disney Television Studios (DTS) Finance team leads financial planning and analysis for content produced by 20th Television, 20th Animation, and Searchlight TV—work that directly shapes financial results across all three Disney Entertainment pillars. This requires strong partnership with studio leadership, cross-functional teams, finance and controllership groups across Disney Entertainment.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role

• Maintain TV ultimates, including co-productions, throughout forecasting cycles, reflecting latest distribution deals and costs.
• Ownership of greenlight analysis of new and returning series. Update executive team on series performance.
• Ownership of series ultimate revenue consolidation for Direct-to-Consumer (DTC), Content Sales Licensing Other (CSLO), and Content Valuation (CVA).
• Help reconcile revenue forecast against accounting treatments, perform variance analysis, and communicate trends.
• Proactively model, quantify and communicate impact to company financials driven by ultimate revenue and cost updates.
• Partner with FP&A to provide participations and residuals costs forecasts and updates driven by ultimate revenue changes, and actively flag Risks & Opportunities.
• Prepare quarterly ultimate Flux for divisional controller, reconcile inventory, participations, and residuals balances. Publish quarterly ultimate costs to controllership for accurate and timeline cost allocation to Disney Entertainment pillars.
• Assist with executive inquiries from Business Affairs to Strategy, to Finance. Influence key decisions by synthesizing complex financial data into clear recommendations.
• Drive automation projects and technology-enabled enhancements. Partner with Finance Transformation consultants to enhance IT systems during companywide initiative.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training

• Bachelor’s Degree required; preferred in Finance or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, TV ultimates, accounting, studio finance, or a related role within the entertainment industry.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, financial modeling, and data analysis.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, financial modeling, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills, executive presence, and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, independent thinker with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Champions new technologies with a strong learning mindset.
• Experience presenting complex financial data to senior-level executives.
• Experience with SAP, Hyperion/Oracle and similar reporting systems is a plus.