Lead Business Architect - Source

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.

This role is part of the Enterprise Technology Finance Product Technology Team. Our mission is to deliver cohesive, end‑to‑end financial technology products that enable business outcomes, drive operational efficiency, ensure strong financial controls, and support the enterprise through reliable platforms, analytics, and integrated product delivery while empowering growth, and enhancing value across brands, geographies and organizations.

• General Ledger, AP, AR, Treasury
• Source‑to‑Pay
• Revenue Recognition
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Time & Tax management

This role will work with users, partners and senior business stakeholders for a particular group of value chains within Enterprise Technology of Source to Pay and Travel. Knowledge of SAP Accounts Payable, Concur Travel are required. Additionally, knowledge of Coupa and Integration technology is highly desirable.

Solution Support
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Apply in depth understanding of how SAP Finance integrates with broader functions. Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Leads others to solve complex problems, uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions. Investigate and resolve production related issues in a timely manner from end user (UI) to persistence layer.

Participate in the technical recovery of major system outages, interfacing with numerous stakeholders including external vendors or outsourced service delivery teams. Develop and maintain application documentation to help ensure that support can be efficiently performed and the impact of future requests can be assessed. Monitor service performance and recommend areas of focus for continuous improvement initiatives, including application performance management.

Vendor Management
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Oversee vendor/partners in the timely resolution of incidents/problems/requests, ensuring service level and quality targets are met. Gather requirements for minor enhancements and oversee the resultant product from the vendors. Participate in testing as required by the test strategy. Drive the adoption of agile development methodologies, focusing on improving the velocity and quality of delivered work products through Dev Ops practices and automated testing.

Partner with the application security team on the implementation of “security by design,” ensuring that all solutions meet security standards. Participate in periodic problem analysis meetings and post implementation reviews to document learnings and ensure the continuous improvement of the IT services.

Leadership Skills
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May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and complexity. A self‑starter, who can effectively navigate a complex organizational structure, achieving results through influence and collaboration. Ability to establish executive level relationships across the various business and technology executives within TWDC, from EVP downwards. Establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrix environment with other departments, groups and staff with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced.

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