Senior Finance Analyst (1 year fixed-term, parental leave cover)

About the Role & Team

Join our team now as Senior Finance Analyst! In this role you’ll focus on the financial planning, reporting and analysis of Content Sales Licensed and our streaming service Disney+.

You’ll work in close partnership with the respective finance leads in delivering on our financial commitments, supporting them with ad-hoc as well as strategic considerations. From financial modelling to financial analysis and planning – in this role you’ll cover the whole financial cycle!

You’ll play an active role contributing to the Nordic & Baltic finance team through providing financial expertise and support to various commercial teams. The role will have dual reporting lines, to the Content Sales finance lead and the Disney+ finance lead.

This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week. This role can be based in either our Stockholm or Copenhagen office.

What You Will Do

• Support in the financial planning cycle for Content Sales and Disney+ P&L lines, including Annual Operating Plan, forecasts, actuals reporting and reconciliations of forecasts/actuals. This could include:

• Understand, reconcile and explain the numbers submitted by both the local and the regional team

• Support and coordinate internal reviews in parallel with Regional timetable

• Ensure preparation of decks in connection with the planning process (both planning and reporting of actuals)

• Present results to key internal partners in a clear and comprehensive way

• Creation and maintenance of tools and templates, where needed

• Ensuring that the forecasts and actuals are accurate and updated in the reporting systems

• Proactively develop current processes, reporting and presentations

• Deliver accurate, timely and high-standard analysis, information and presentations

• Coordinate information between various colleagues such as Legal, Sales and Deal Management

• Develop an understanding of the global and local streaming markets, the key players and trends. In particular, identify and highlight local impacts to business performance and forecasting.

• Support with data analysis on new deals, such as partnerships and promotional activities

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proven track record working at a Senior Finance Analyst level, with excellent attention to detail and financial modelling skills

• Proficiency in Excel and experience of using SAP, or similar accounting and reporting systems

• BSc or MSc (or equivalent) in Finance, Economics or Marketing

• Confident in financial modelling, analysis and financial management and in the application of Financial & Accounting Principles

• Experience of acting as a Finance Business Partner, collaborating with all seniority levels of an organization through effective and audience-targeted communication and presenting

• Experience and understanding of working in a commercial, diverse, multi-currency and multinational business environment

• You are a problem-solver, who uses their business & industry savvy to get results

• Stay current on business issues, industry trends, and technology advances

• Engage colleagues across the organization to optimize performance with the ability to harmonise with people who have different backgrounds and working styles

• Business proficiency in English, knowledge of a Nordic language is beneficial

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.