Vice President of Finance

This is a Full Time Job


The Vice President of Finance is a senior leadership role responsible for stewarding the division's financial framework and supporting its long-term financial strength. This role serves as a key strategic partner to executive leadership, ensuring financial planning, investment decisions, and resource allocation align with organizational priorities and support both current performance and future growth.

The Vice President leads the division's financial planning and performance cycles, ensuring alignment with Disney Entertainment leadership and global finance partners across international markets. This role provides executive leadership across both the Finance and Production Accounting functions, ensuring strong financial oversight, continuity, and integrity.

Direct Reports:
• Director, Finance
• Director, Production Accounting

Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Strategic Leadership:
• Lead the division's financial planning processes, including long-range planning, annual planning, and ongoing forecasts.
• Ensure planning frameworks, governance, and performance measures support disciplined execution and organizational priorities.
• Provide financial insight and perspective to support strategic planning, investment decisions, and resource allocation.
• Continuously assess financial outlook, assumptions, and risks, adapting plans to evolving business conditions across global markets.

Executive Partnership and Strategic Alignment:
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership, providing insight into financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner closely with operating leadership, Disney Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company finance leadership, and global finance partners to support informed decision-making.
• Provide clear financial perspective that supports both divisional priorities and broader enterprise financial objectives.

Production Finance Leadership:
• Partner with production leadership to develop and manage production budgets and schedules, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.
• Provide executive oversight of all financial aspects of the production lifecycle, including expensed and capitalized budgets, Estimated Final Costs (EFC), and production accounting.
• Provide financial leadership on tax incentives, cost planning, and vendor negotiations to support disciplined financial management.

Leadership of Finance and Production Accounting Functions:
• Provide executive leadership and direction to both the Finance and Production Accounting teams.
• Strengthen organizational capability, leadership development, and continuity across both functions.
• Ensure strong integration between financial planning and production accounting to support accurate forecasting and financial oversight.
• Foster strong collaboration and alignment across financial activities.
• Provide executive oversight of participations and royalty processes, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and strong financial stewardship.

Financial Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness:
• Provide leadership through the continued evolution of the finance function, ensuring effective adoption of planning frameworks and financial processes.
• Advance key finance and organizational initiatives, ensuring effective integration across the Finance and Production Accounting functions.
• Establish clear ownership, governance, timelines, and success measures to ensure disciplined execution and accountability.
• Strengthen financial planning, reporting, and operational effectiveness through consistent frameworks and continuous improvement.

Compliance and Risk Management:
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, legal requirements, and industry standards.
• Develop and implement risk management strategies to mitigate potential threats.
• Oversee internal controls and audit processes to ensure integrity and transparency.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree required, MBA and/or CPA preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of financial management experience, preferably in entertainment/media/publishing.
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated capability to draw insightful conclusions from financial and operational analysis.
• Excellent relationship management and deal negotiation/closing skills.
• Comprehensive understanding of accounting and financial controls.
• Proven history of strategic thinking, problem-solving, and team leadership.

Key Competencies:
• Strategic Financial Leadership
• Executive Partnership and Influence
• Financial Stewardship and Accountability
• Organizational Leadership and Integration
• Sound Judgment and Decision-Making
• Leadership Across Global Teams
• Executive Communication
• Organizational Adaptability and Agility

This leadership role is essential to strengthening the organization's financial position and enabling the division's long-term growth and success.

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