Lead Business Architect - Source-to-Pay (S2P)

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 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.

The Finance & Accounting Technology organization is responsible for designing and delivering products supporting the entire financial lifecycle, including:

• General Ledger, AP, AR, Treasury

• Source‑to‑Pay

• Revenue Recognition

• Financial Planning & Analysis

• Time & Tax management

We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own the finance domain technology roadmap.

What You’ll Do:

The Lead Business Architect - Source-to-Pay (S2P) will work with users, partners and senior business stakeholders for a particular group of value chains within Enterprise Technology of Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Travel. Knowledge of SAP Accounts Payable, Concur Travel are required. Additionally, knowledge of Coupa and Integration technology is highly desirable.

• Solution Support: Apply in depth understanding of how SAP Finance integrates with broader functions

• Vendor Management: Oversee vendor/partners in the timely resolution of incidents/problems/requests, ensuring service level and quality targets are met.

• Leadership Skills: May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and complexity.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 7+ years of related work experience required

• Source-to-Pay (S2P) experience

• Business acumen, with deep expertise in the allocated domain(s) as well as strong skills in the technology that supports the domain(s)

• Deep Service Management expertise, working within a support community/Center of Excellence

• Experience managing outsourced vendors, including, but not limited to, agile software development, testing, SLA management, and incident/problem management

• Participation in formal change management processes

• Experience working within an agile framework

• Experience with application monitoring technologies; New Relic, DataDog, Synthetic Transactions

• Wide experience with a variety of Software Development Lifecycle methodologies across waterfall and agile

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $141,900.00-$190,300.00 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.