Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant (Contract)

Role overview Establish and put into practice a finance data governance capability in a 12-month consulting assignment. You will work across Finance and Technology to improve how important financial data is defined, owned, documented, controlled, and used in reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities - Assess existing governance maturity, documentation, ownership, controls, and data management practices. - Design an operating model covering roles, decision rights, forums, workflows, escalation paths, and review routines. - Build inventories and a business glossary for priority finance data, including definitions, owners, classifications, refresh cycles, and dependencies. - Document data lineage and finance rules across source systems, transformations, consolidation, reporting, and analytics. - Define data quality controls and issue-management processes; coordinate investigation and remediation with business and technical teams. - Facilitate workshops, prepare executive updates and training, and maintain a prioritized governance backlog.

Requirements - At least eight years of experience in data governance, finance data management, finance transformation, financial systems, or a related field. - Strong understanding of finance processes such as general ledger, close, consolidation, planning, forecasting, reconciliation, and management reporting. - Experience documenting financial definitions, business rules, mappings, hierarchies, lineage, controls, and data quality needs. - Ability to work across Finance, Accounting, FP&A, engineering, analytics, security, and enterprise technology teams. - Skilled at facilitating decisions, producing clear documentation for both working teams and executives, and progressing ambiguous work independently.

Nice to have Experience with SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake, an enterprise data catalog or governance platform such as Atlan or Collibra, and enterprise reporting tools.