Manager, Marketing Finance (DTC Finance Team)

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Finance

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Job Description

Disney Streaming Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Finance is seeking a Manager to join the team. The 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. This includes owning subscriber lifetime values (‘LTV’), providing executive stakeholders with highly visible, ad hoc analysis, insights, and executive level reporting, collaborating with marketing, finance, data, and analytics teams to build and manage tools to track and optimize marketing spend, leading projects around marketing’s impact on Disney Streaming’s subscriber base, and providing marketing insights and expertise for cross-team Marketing and Finance projects.
Must have:
  • 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
Good to have:
  • Prior leadership experience
  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Snowflake and coding languages such as SQL, R and Python
  • CPA, CFA or MBA
  • Experience leading and developing a team
Perks:
  • Health and savings benefits
  • Educational opportunities
  • Special extras that only Disney can provide
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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

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.
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$124.8K - $159.8K/yr (Outscal est.)
$142.3K/yr avg.
Santa Monica, California, United States

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From classic animated features and exhilarating theme park attractions to cutting edge sports coverage, and the hottest shows on television, The Walt Disney Company has been making magic since 1923, creating unforgettable stories that connect with audiences around the world. And we’re just getting started!

The key to our success…. The Cast, Crew, Imagineers and Employees who honor Disney’s rich legacy by stretching the bounds of imagination to create the never-before-seen, bringing unparalleled entertainment experiences to people of all ages. Begin a career that delivers unparalleled creative content and experiences to audiences around the world and just imagine the stories you could be part of…

What is #LifeAtDisney like? It’s a series of magical moments with cast members and employees developing and telling our stories in the most innovative ways. Whether it’s a day spent as a Disney VoluntEAR, or celebrating the release of a new interactive experience, retail product or movie, our days are filled with the knowledge that we are creating entertainment experiences the whole family can enjoy. Follow @DisneyCareers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for a peek behind-the-curtain, and discover how you could connect to a world of stories with Disney!

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