Sr Business Systems Analyst
Burbank, CA

Job Description

Job 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.

This role is part of the Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) organization. Our mission is to provide business technology solutions for the enterprise that empower growth, and enhance value across brands, geographies and organizations.

Job Type

Full Time

Segment

The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)

Category

Technology

Basic Qualifications

* (Senior BSA) 8 years or (BSA) 5 years in a business partnering role in a Corporate environment of a similar size/complexity
* Demonstrable deep experience of the Value Chains relevant to the post, including defining strategies and delivering large projects that enabled them
* Experience wih working with (a majority of) our portfolio of applications for the value chains relevant to the post
* See earlier section for more details
* Deep Business System Analysis expertise, working within a Community of Practice/Center of Excellence
* Experience of participating in the full range of testing activities (including but not limited to: functional testing, load/performance teating, user acceptance testing, integration testing)
* Participation in formal change management processes
* Experience of working within a Business Architecture framework
* Business acumen, with deep expertise in the allocated domain(s) as well as strong skills in the technology that supports the domain(s)
* Very detail oriented
* High emotional intelligence
* Proven strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.
* Preferred experience with automation technologies; Work Fusion and other RPA/ML technologies.
* Preferred experience with leveraging an Enterprise Data Hub technology for system to system or platform to platform integrations.
* Wide experience with a variety of Software Development Lifecycle methodologies across waterfall and agile
* Deep understanding of Business Architecture principles
* Exemplary communications skills
* Current understanding of new/emerging technology and its application in business
* Preferred experience with RFP, RFI and vendor negotiations.

Business

The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

* Business Architecture framework expertise (such as the BizBok)
* Experience of Solution Architecture principles
* Formal Business Architecture qualifications

Postal Code

91502

Responsibilities

Within EBS this role will provide Business Systems Analysis (BSA) services relating to a specific collection of value chains within the Core Finance, Human Capital Management (HCM) and Corporate Functions, or Data group. The role will work within a BSA Community of Practice for Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) that exists to drive consistenty and excellence of the BSA service across EBS.

Specifically this role will work with partners and senior business stakeholders for a particular group of value chains within EBS. The groups are:

* Order to Cash, and Close Process
* Planning & Forecast
* Source to Pay, Acquire to Retire, and Project Accounting
* Cash Management, Real Estate, Enterprise Consumer Payments, and Tax
* Logistics, and Warehouse Mgmt
* Product Integrity, Factory Audit, and Trade Management
* Legal. Security, and Co-Brand
* Pay, Time, and Time & Expenses
* HCM
* Data Integration, Data Platforms, Data Mastering, BI Reporting & Analytics

The (Snr) Business Systems Analyst will:

* Elicit and document business capabilities, outcomes, and technology enabled requirements
* Create project authorization deliverables including business case development, solution design, and financial proforma
* Develop technical specifications necessary to allow technical solution partners to implement a solution that satisfies the requirements and delivers the intended outcomes
* Test strategy definition and development, oversight of scripts development and quality assurance
* Participate in change management as required to allow initiatives to succeed
* Work within the process, standards and policies of the BSA CoP, helping the community to continually improve
* Work within the context of EBS's emerging Business Architecture framework, while helping to develop and refine the framework with other members of the department
* Demonstrate a deep appreciation of new/emerging technology, and how it could be used to deliver business outcomes
* Demonstrated success in pursuing continuous improvement, always challenging the status quo

The differentiation between the BSA role and the Senior BSA role is within the size and complexity of the projects allocated. Architects will also incorporate the accountabilities of the Snr Business Analyst within their roles, so this job description should be read in conjunction with the Architect JD too.

Leadership Skills:

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. Comfortable influencing to achieve desired outcomes.

A person that can decide and act without having the total picture and is comfortable handling risk and uncertainty.

Execution Skills:

Deep domain and technical expertise will be essential, as will be accomplished delivery in a matrixed environment of internal and external partners, and suppliers.

Equally comfortable with executives, manager-level stakeholders, architects and developers--this is a hands-on position with regards to people and detail.

Practical knowledge and applied experience related to Business Architecture principles.

Extensive knowledge of the enterprise technology landscape and ability to leverage that knowledge in delivering business outcomes with speed.

A practitioner of the Solutions Architecture principles and can effectively proceed through review boards and other SA activities.

Job 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.

This role is part of the Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) organization. Our mission is to provide business technology solutions for the enterprise that empower growth, and enhance value across brands, geographies and organizations.

Basic Qualifications

* (Senior BSA) 8 years or (BSA) 5 years in a business partnering role in a Corporate environment of a similar size/complexity
* Demonstrable deep experience of the Value Chains relevant to the post, including defining strategies and delivering large projects that enabled them
* Experience wih working with (a majority of) our portfolio of applications for the value chains relevant to the post
* See earlier section for more details
* Deep Business System Analysis expertise, working within a Community of Practice/Center of Excellence
* Experience of participating in the full range of testing activities (including but not limited to: functional testing, load/performance teating, user acceptance testing, integration testing)
* Participation in formal change management processes
* Experience of working within a Business Architecture framework
* Business acumen, with deep expertise in the allocated domain(s) as well as strong skills in the technology that supports the domain(s)
* Very detail oriented
* High emotional intelligence
* Proven strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.
* Preferred experience with automation technologies; Work Fusion and other RPA/ML technologies.
* Preferred experience with leveraging an Enterprise Data Hub technology for system to system or platform to platform integrations.
* Wide experience with a variety of Software Development Lifecycle methodologies across waterfall and agile
* Deep understanding of Business Architecture principles
* Exemplary communications skills
* Current understanding of new/emerging technology and its application in business
* Preferred experience with RFP, RFI and vendor negotiations.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

* Business Architecture framework expertise (such as the BizBok)
* Experience of Solution Architecture principles
* Formal Business Architecture qualifications

Responsibilities

Within EBS this role will provide Business Systems Analysis (BSA) services relating to a specific collection of value chains within the Core Finance, Human Capital Management (HCM) and Corporate Functions, or Data group. The role will work within a BSA Community of Practice for Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) that exists to drive consistenty and excellence of the BSA service across EBS.

Specifically this role will work with partners and senior business stakeholders for a particular group of value chains within EBS. The groups are:

* Order to Cash, and Close Process
* Planning & Forecast
* Source to Pay, Acquire to Retire, and Project Accounting
* Cash Management, Real Estate, Enterprise Consumer Payments, and Tax
* Logistics, and Warehouse Mgmt
* Product Integrity, Factory Audit, and Trade Management
* Legal. Security, and Co-Brand
* Pay, Time, and Time & Expenses
* HCM
* Data Integration, Data Platforms, Data Mastering, BI Reporting & Analytics

The (Snr) Business Systems Analyst will:

* Elicit and document business capabilities, outcomes, and technology enabled requirements
* Create project authorization deliverables including business case development, solution design, and financial proforma
* Develop technical specifications necessary to allow technical solution partners to implement a solution that satisfies the requirements and delivers the intended outcomes
* Test strategy definition and development, oversight of scripts development and quality assurance
* Participate in change management as required to allow initiatives to succeed
* Work within the process, standards and policies of the BSA CoP, helping the community to continually improve
* Work within the context of EBS's emerging Business Architecture framework, while helping to develop and refine the framework with other members of the department
* Demonstrate a deep appreciation of new/emerging technology, and how it could be used to deliver business outcomes
* Demonstrated success in pursuing continuous improvement, always challenging the status quo

The differentiation between the BSA role and the Senior BSA role is within the size and complexity of the projects allocated. Architects will also incorporate the accountabilities of the Snr Business Analyst within their roles, so this job description should be read in conjunction with the Architect JD too.

Leadership Skills:

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. Comfortable influencing to achieve desired outcomes.

A person that can decide and act without having the total picture and is comfortable handling risk and uncertainty.

Execution Skills:

Deep domain and technical expertise will be essential, as will be accomplished delivery in a matrixed environment of internal and external partners, and suppliers.

Equally comfortable with executives, manager-level stakeholders, architects and developers--this is a hands-on position with regards to people and detail.

Practical knowledge and applied experience related to Business Architecture principles.

Extensive knowledge of the enterprise technology landscape and ability to leverage that knowledge in delivering business outcomes with speed.

A practitioner of the Solutions Architecture principles and can effectively proceed through review boards and other SA activities.