Sr Planning/Forecasting Analyst

About the Role & Team

Planning and Commercial Support organization is responsible for the coordination of Walt Disney World Financial Planning & Analysis and development of revenue drivers and Commercial forecasts/plans that provide Guest-centric insights and recommendations to support WDW/Commercial/Finance Leadership. We support all financial functions (LTP, Annual Operating Plan, Forecast), in addition to short term operations forecasts, analysis of business results, and financial decision support. We demonstrate a deep understanding of Guest demographics and behaviors, trends, pricing strategies, and marketing/sales plans to support the strategic direction and key projects for Walt Disney World.

With this posting, we are recruiting for a Senior Analyst to support data strategy and finance transformation projects for WDW finance. This role will develop, implement, track, report and optimize team processes—especially the curation, reporting and visualization of data—using database languages, programming languages, and business insight platforms. The right individual will also assist in implementing and managing finance-wide enhancements, workflow improvements, data optimization, automation, and new system integrations. This work requires partnership with all parts of our organization and other Finance teams as well as many areas across the company such as Technology, CIMA, Commercial, and LOB teams.

We are seeking an analytical, technical, and diligent individual who has curiosity to proactively identify, evaluate, and communicate business performance using data-driven insights. The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with superior analytical and data mining skills who can demonstrate highly complex datasets to deliver concise analytics applying various visualization techniques. The candidate should also have excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the improvement of finance-wide data infrastructure and workflows (using platforms and languages such as Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, SQL, and Python) to enable better decision making across the organization
• Stay abreast of and train others on current trends and new techniques on multiple data platforms and languages including Python, Snowflake, and Tableau
• Become an expert in multiple analytics platforms and languages, serving as the owner for testing data integrity after system changes and communicating across business and technical teams to ensure no end-user disruption
• Prepare insightful and flexible ongoing and ad-hoc reports to identify, evaluate, and communicate business trends and key metrics, clearly representing the story and key takeaways to Senior Leaders
• Work collaboratively with other team members and people throughout the organization to understand opportunities for new process implementation and current process improvement
• Utilize strong communication and influencing skills – must be comfortable providing a point of view to a variety of audiences
• Manage and prioritize multiple tasks independently in a fast-paced environment

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• High familiarity with data platforms such as Snowflake, as well as proficiency in querying databases using SQL
• Ability to program scripts in languages like Python or R for ETL and analytics purposes
• Experience using Tableau or Power BI software for reporting, data exploration, and trend analysis
• Demonstrated technical ability to create models and translate raw data into business insights that can be shared with Leaders
• Highly skilled in Excel with working knowledge of VBA
• Ability to learn and teach new data visualization platforms and analysis software
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, handle multiple priorities, and perform job responsibilities accurately with minimal supervision
• Exceptional partnering skills and ability to work in a team environment with a positive demeanor
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with version control software or platforms like GitHub or GitLab

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Finance, Information Technology, Economics, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering or other quantitative field

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