Department Description:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation.  The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. 

Team Description:

This role is located within the Enterprise Products Organization under the Financial Value Chain business solutions area.  Finance Value Chains will be delivering Priority Business Solutions aligned with the enterprise architecture for the Finance, Tax and Treasury Value Chains. We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own the core financial systems and related functions domain technology roadmap.

The Sr Business System Analyst – is a role within Enterprise technology, responsible for supporting the business architecture and delivery of Finance platforms and services ensuring technology solutions are delivered end-to-end in line with architectural standards, delivering on business capability and collaboration with support operations. The span of the role will encompass business requirements, functional design, business modeling, testing and delivery.

**This is an estimated 9-month Project Hire position, with no guarantee of permanent placement.**

What You’ll Do:

• Support translation of business needs to the product solution in support of project delivery and success

• Partner with teams to understand and document business requirements

• Participate in functional and technical design sessions

• Partner with business and technology teams to build business models

• Participate in creating documentation (ex. requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional design documents, process flows, etc.)

• Participate in agile ceremonies (ex. scrum, sprint planning, demos, etc.)

• Partner with technical implementation team(s) to provide documentation or information needed, confirm what is built aligns to the requirements

• Support traceability of business requirements through technical specs and test cases

• Work with the business to confirm test scenarios, validate design, test data & results

• Support business ownership of process flows

• Execute testing including developing, reviewing or executing test scripts, test results, defect triage

• Validating product to acceptance criteria

• Provide inputs into the Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) log pertaining to business architecture; proactively identify issues and analyze options to resolve; work with the project management team

• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, solution architects, and delivery managers

• Builds strong relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders, across the enterprise

Skills & Key Attributes:

• Technology project experience

• Results oriented, biased toward action

• Strong communication, consensus-building, and presentation skills

• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences

• Strong collaboration skills and works well with a team

• Ability to break down and solve complex problems

• Demonstrates resilience and perseverance

• Flexible and adaptable

• Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment, prioritize work and meet deadlines

• Ability to decide and act without having the total picture and comfortable handling risk and uncertainty

• Self-starter, with strong ambition to support the project and team

• Works independently under general supervision

• Ability to effectively navigate a complex organizational structure

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of overall Enterprise Resource Planning experience with 3 years of experience supporting finance systems and projects

• Proven track record of participating in software projects in finance value chains on a large scale

• Experience with finance business processes & software

• Experience with Business Architecture practice and methodologies

• Experience participating in matrixed project teams including architects, developers, operations, PMs, business analysts, and vendor partners

• Experience with agile software development and full SDLC

• Prior experience of working in a Media environment is advantageous

Required Education:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience.

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The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is 97,500 - $125,500 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.