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Media Manager

Job ID 10114037 Location London, United Kingdom Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Mar. 21, 2025
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Job Summary:

About the Role

The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) are looking for a Media Accounting Manager to join our EMEA Controllership team. You’ll be responsible for the close accounting processes and deliverables for Media segments, specifically focusing on Entertainment Channels, National Geographic, Baby TV, Sport, ESPN, Disney Channel, Ad Sales with some involvement in Disney+, Media Distribution & other media Lines Of Business (LOBs), reporting to the Senior Media Manager.  

This role is a 9 months paternity cover and is a hybrid role, working 4 days a week in our Hammersmith office.

What You Will Do: 

  • Day to day management, support & development of a team of 2 people, including hiring, objective setting, performance management, guidance, and training.  

  • Ensuring quarterly close activities are completed in an accurate and timely manner e.g. monitor the timely completion of the team deliverables checklist & facilitate fast issue resolution.  

  • Ensuring overall preparation of reporting packages & financial reports, such as income statements, balance sheet flux schedules and impairments are completed on a timely basis & all issues & variances are followed up on where required. 

  • Reviewing & approving key close postings and deliverables before period close  

  • Working closely with local, EMEA & US teams on a daily basis to bridge knowledge gaps, facilitate rapid issue resolution, implementing new systems, processes and facilitating change management. 

  • Approval of all journals & intercompany invoices over $1m. 

  • Approval of all monthly & quarterly Balance Sheet reconciliations. 

  • Maintaining status of an EMEA programming centre of excellence & liaising with EMEA & US programming teams on a daily basis to ensure accounting, tax & legal compliance. 

  • Ensuring compliance with programming accounting policies for EMEA internally developed content, third-party acquisitions, pre-buys (original acquisitions), co-productions, US content, Studio content, contributions, interstitials, development & pilot & content produced for third parties. 

  • Approving in Mediamorph (programming FOH system) set ups for programming assets, liabilities, amortisation, collapsing assets & AP payments on an ongoing basis as well as advising the team on efficient issue resolution. 

  • Preparation of the EMEA BS Flux, investigation of variances & providing feedback to the US corporate & EMEA leadership teams. 

  • Review of the EMEA Media P&L Flux, for all material LOBs, investigation of variances & providing feedback to the US corporate & EMEA leadership teams. 

  • Attending & leading quarterly close calls to ensure the leadership team receive timely & accurate updates on close numbers. 

  • Leading business partnering with local Finance, US controllership & other various teams to drive out change, add value and maintain commercial awareness. 

  • Liaising with external Auditors on a regular basis, including attending the audit calls.   

  • Ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley & Disney Minimum Control Standards e.g. journal log. 

  • With frequent changes in the business in order to stay competitive, lead the role out of business, accounting policy or process change 

  • Identify & drive areas of improvement within current processes with the aim of maintaining the current high standard of service provided in a more efficient manner. 

  • Undertake various projects to drive efficiency. 

  • Legal entity rationalisation i.e. mergers and transfers of business. 

  • Supporting management & wider finance team on any ad-hoc duties 

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

  • Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA with a minimum of 5 years’ post qualified experience  

  • Background & knowledge of film & TV programming accounting preferred.   

  • Advanced excel skills.  

  • SAP experience 

  • European language skills are highly coveted 

  • Strong attention to detail 

  • Ability to analyse information critically & ask questions. 

  • Adaptable & ability to manage to tight deadlines 

  • Strong interpersonal skills to establish effective working relationships across all levels of the organization.

The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave.

  • Private medical insurance & dental care.

  • Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.

  • Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.

  • Excellent parental and guardian leave.

  • Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided the necessary accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive all benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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About The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with The Walt Disney Company Limited, which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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