VP Finance, Data Strategy & Governance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $166.9k - $242.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Serve as a senior member of the Finance leadership team, contributing to Finance strategy, operating priorities, transformation initiatives, and executive decision-making. • Define and execute the Finance data strategy aligned with enterprise business objectives, technology strategy, regulatory requirements, and Finance transformation goals. • Develop and maintain a multi-year Finance data roadmap that prioritizes strategic initiatives, investments, governance, modernization, and measurable business outcomes. • Advise executive leadership on Finance data investments, prioritization, business value, risks, and technology trade-offs. • Partner with Finance, Technology, Enterprise Data, Analytics, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Treasury, Architecture, and Operations leaders to align enterprise data initiatives with Finance priorities. • Represent Finance in enterprise data governance and technology governance forums. • Own the Finance data product portfolio, including financial reporting datasets, semantic models, business metrics, APIs, dashboards, analytical assets, and reusable data products. • Lead adoption of a product-based operating model for Finance data, including product lifecycle management, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, adoption measurement, and value realization. • Provide Finance business ownership for enterprise data platforms, ERP integrations, planning systems, treasury systems, regulatory reporting platforms, and analytics environments. • Partner with Data Engineering, Technology, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable, secure, automated, and high-quality Finance data solutions. • Establish and lead the Finance data governance framework, stewardship model, governance councils, policies, standards, and operating procedures. • Define accountability for Finance data ownership, data quality, metadata management, issue resolution, lifecycle management, and stewardship across critical Finance domains. • Standardize Finance business definitions, master data, reference data, metadata, hierarchies, KPIs, business glossaries, and data lineage. • Ensure Finance data practices support SOX compliance, audit readiness, regulatory reporting, privacy requirements, and enterprise control standards. • Establish transparent and auditable Finance data processes supporting executive reporting, regulatory reporting, planning, forecasting, and operational decision-making. • Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams responsible for Finance data strategy, governance, data products, and stewardship. • Drive organizational change by promoting data literacy, governance adoption, stewardship accountability, and standardized Finance metrics. • Establish and monitor KPIs measuring data quality, adoption, governance effectiveness, business value, stakeholder satisfaction, and operational performance. • Communicate strategy, progress, risks, outcomes, and transformation milestones to executive leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related discipline; equivalent experience considered. • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in Finance data management, Finance transformation, enterprise data strategy, analytics, finance systems, data governance, or data product management. • Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale Finance data transformation, governance, analytics, or platform modernization initiatives. • Experience developing and executing multi-year strategic roadmaps and organizational transformation programs. • Experience partnering with executive leadership across Finance, Technology, Enterprise Data, Risk, Compliance, and business functions. • Strong knowledge of: • Financial reporting • Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) • Forecasting • Regulatory reporting • SOX compliance • Internal controls • Audit requirements • Data governance • Data quality management • Master Data Management (MDM) • Metadata management • Business glossaries • Data lineage • Data stewardship • Enterprise data management • Data product management • Change management • Experience establishing governance frameworks, stewardship programs, data ownership models, and enterprise data standards. • Demonstrated ability to translate Finance priorities into scalable technology and data solutions. • Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing executive stakeholders without direct authority. • Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.