Analyst, Financial Markets – Treasury

The Walt Disney Company • Burbank, CA

3d • $91,600 - $118,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Markets Analyst is an entry-level role in The Walt Disney Company’s Treasury Financial Markets group, supporting Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange Risk Management, and Pension & Investments. The role builds financial models, prepares reporting and market analysis, and contributes to transactions and decisions involving company funding, financial risk, and pension-asset investment. The position supports a debt portfolio of approximately $45 billion, a foreign exchange derivatives portfolio exceeding $20 billion notional, and approximately $17 billion in pension assets. It is based on-site in Burbank, California, and is scheduled to begin in Summer 2027.

The analyst will build and maintain models for company-wide cash-flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and capital-structure analysis, and prepare analyses and presentations for senior leadership reviews. The role partners with FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Investor Relations, and Corporate Development, and applies technology and AI tools to improve recurring processes, especially those involving multiple data sources.

In Capital Markets, the analyst supports capital raising, strategic capital planning, shareholder-return analysis, and interest-expense and shares-outstanding forecasts. In Foreign Exchange Risk Management, the analyst maintains exposure and hedge reporting, supports daily hedging-program operations, works with business teams to assess currency impacts, conducts macroeconomic research, and analyzes initiatives such as international pricing and hedging exposures related to cruise ships under construction. In Pension & Investments, the analyst supports pension-asset investment, asset-allocation strategy, funded-status monitoring, investment-manager due diligence and selection, and monitoring of markets and fund performance.

Requirements

• Strong academic achievement with demonstrated financial acumen and quantitative aptitude.
• Analytical, data-driven problem-solving approach and strong attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Excel, including the ability to build, audit, and explain financial models.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical analysis to non-technical partners.
• Self-starter willing to take on significant responsibility early, manage competing priorities, and work with ambiguity.
• Demonstrated interest in global financial-market developments and their impact on the Company, and willingness to learn concepts such as derivatives, hedging programs, and fixed income.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Graduated and available to begin full-time by Summer 2027.

Nice To Haves

• Prior finance internship experience, such as corporate treasury, corporate finance, FP&A, investment banking, sales and trading, or asset management.
• Coursework in corporate finance, derivatives, fixed income, or investments.
• Exposure to data and automation tools such as Power Query, Power Automate, Tableau, SQL, or Python.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg or comparable market-data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models for company-wide cash-flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and capital-structure analysis.
• Prepare analysis and presentations for senior leadership reviews, including the Financial Risk Management Committee and periodic investment reviews.
• Partner with FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Investor Relations, and Corporate Development.
• Use technology and AI tools to streamline recurring processes and improve output, particularly processes involving multiple data sources.
• Support capital-raising activity, including bond issuances, the commercial paper program, and bank credit facilities.
• Contribute to strategic capital-planning analysis covering liquidity, leverage, credit-ratings positioning, and capital-structure optimization.
• Analyze shareholder-return programs, including share repurchases and dividend strategy.
• Maintain interest-expense and shares-outstanding forecast models used in the Annual Operating Plan and Long-Range Plan.
• Maintain and enhance reporting used to monitor global currency and commodity exposures and hedge positions.
• Support day-to-day hedging-program operations, including timely designation of derivatives within the Treasury Management System.
• Work with segment FP&A and Accounting teams to aggregate exposures and estimate the impact of currency movements on business P&Ls.
• Conduct macroeconomic research supporting budget rates and long-term economic assumptions used by the businesses each planning cycle.
• Analyze business initiatives such as international pricing decisions and hedging exposures of cruise ships under construction.
• Support investment of company pension-plan assets, including developing asset-allocation strategies and monitoring pension-plan funded status.
• Conduct due diligence and select investment fund managers across equities, fixed income, and alternative asset classes.
• Monitor financial markets and fund performance.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level