Senior Manager, Global Trade Risk, Audit & Finance

The Walt Disney Company • Celebration, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Global Trade Risk, Audit & Finance drives the evaluation, design, and execution of regulatory and operational control frameworks alongside trade finance workflows for the import footprint. This position is strategically balanced across three core execution lanes: control design and automation strategy (30%), risk assessment and transactional audit (40%), and trade finance transaction matching and payment approval (30%). The primary mandate of this leader is the design and implementation of control activities, vendor payment and Customs declaration accuracy, and corporate regulatory risk mitigation. Rather than pursuing commercial value-generation programs (such as duty drawback optimization, foreign trade zones, or preferential trade agreements), this role focuses 60% of its scope on control activities (process mapping, systematic rules configuration, trade payment verification) and 40% on the control environment (risk assessment, reporting, and governance reviews). The successful candidate will manage specialized trade automation technology integrated with core ERP environments to accelerate exception resolution and eliminate financial leakage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, International Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related analytical discipline or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 or more years of progressive experience in international trade compliance, corporate internal audit, or global trade finance workflows within a matrixed multi-tier retail or consumer products company or equivalent experience
• Proven experience in a technical build-style senior role—demonstrating a record of designing and deploying automated workflows.
• Functional experience leveraging automated visibility suites (such as Centric PLM and Infor Nexus or industry standard software counterparts) integrated directly into central ERP environments.

Nice To Haves

• Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) professional credential strongly preferred.
• Financial credentials (e.g., CPA ) considered a value-add for risk and audit management.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee post-entry audits, classification testing, and process-validation for physical cargo entries, verifying the defensibility of customs valuation, HTS classification, and country-of-origin declarations.
• Investigate compliance failures, determine the root cause, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Advise on high-level risk segmentation. Oversee transaction sampling and post-entry review framework to detect data inaccuracies and prevent fines and penalties.
• Act as the functional approver for vendor merchandise invoices and customs brokerage fees, ensuring invoices are reviewed and approved before payment release.
• Manage automated matching rules engines that validate and reconcile purchase orders, receiving warehouse logs, and product commercial invoices back to official customs declarations. Set systemic parameters to capture, flag, and resolve billing errors, duplicate invoicing, and over-billing.
• Lead the configuration of electronic exception filters and screening logic within internal/external trade management software.
• Supervise the development of compliance and financial dashboards (leveraging Tableau, PowerBI, or equivalent systems) to track critical compliance metrics and communicate to senior leadership.
• Inform the creation and development of the long-term technical roadmap, platform selection, and solution deployment strategy for trade finance and customs compliance systems.
• Function as the primary advisor for upstream and downstream enterprise technology, config updates, and technology integrations; review and evaluate updates before deployment to guarantee 99% uptime for trade finance compliance workflows.
• Possesses the executive presence required to present compliance reviews, technical risk mappings, and audit dashboards directly at high-level staff and compliance review meetings.
• Responsible for identifying declaration errors and directing Post-Summary Corrections (PSC) and/or protests. Customs communications and self-disclosure filings are escalated through the Director level and internal Trade Counsel.
• Provide leadership, direction, and strategic oversight across two distinct operational workstreams: one dedicated to traditional customs compliance and regulatory risk assessment and auditing, and the other focused on trade finance, automated invoice matching, and vendor payment approvals.
• Directly supervise and develop a team of compliance analysts and transaction specialists, coaching personnel on technical internal controls, corrective action, and scalable solutions.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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