Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant – Contract

🔥 14 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $129.6k - $194.4k / year

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🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1994

🎮 Gaming

🔧 Hardware

📡 Telecommunications

Gaming • Hardware • Telecommunications

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a prominent division of Sony Corporation responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services. It designs, produces, and sells hardware and software for gaming consoles such as the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation VR2. Sony Interactive Entertainment also offers a range of digital services including PlayStation Plus, an online subscription service that provides access to a vast library of games and exclusive content. The company is heavily involved in the development and publishing of video games, offering popular titles like Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7. Additionally, it supports indie game developers and hosts live competitive gaming events, contributing significantly to the gaming industry's ecosystem.

📋 Description

• Assess current Finance data governance maturity, documentation, ownership, controls, and data management practices • Design and implement a Finance Data Governance operating model with roles, decision rights, forums, workflows, escalation paths, and operating cadences • Create governance standards, procedures, templates, decision logs, issue-management routines, and approval processes • Inventory priority Finance data domains, systems, tables, reports, interfaces, data products, calculations, mappings, and critical data elements • Document business definitions, ownership, stewardship, approved usage, security classification, refresh frequency, and downstream dependencies • Resolve conflicting definitions across Finance teams and prepare metadata for enterprise data catalog publication • Map data lineage through integration, transformation, consolidation, reporting, and analytical consumption • Document business rules, transformation logic, mappings, allocations, eliminations, adjustments, currency translation, and reconciliation points • Identify manual transformations, uncontrolled spreadsheets, duplicated logic, ownership gaps, and lineage gaps • Define Finance data quality standards, rules, thresholds, monitoring requirements, and acceptance criteria • Build data quality rule inventories, support issue triage and root-cause analysis, and maintain auditable evidence • Govern Finance master data, reference data, mappings, and hierarchies • Partner on hierarchy-management and Master Data Management initiatives, including requirements, process design, testing, and impact assessment • Apply governance standards to priority Finance data products and support SAP financial and consolidation data documentation • Document data flows and reconciliation requirements across SAP, consolidation/reporting platforms, Snowflake, Domo, planning tools, and downstream reports • Support governed enterprise context and semantic layers for reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled Finance use cases • Facilitate workshops, prepare executive updates, develop training materials, and coach data owners and stewards • Establish onboarding for new data domains and products • Maintain a prioritized governance backlog with owners, deliverables, dependencies, and completion criteria • Work independently to identify missing requirements and resolve ambiguity

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of experience in data governance, Finance data management, Finance transformation, financial systems, data quality, metadata management, or related consulting roles • Demonstrated experience establishing or materially improving a data governance and data strategy capability in a complex enterprise • Strong understanding of Finance processes, including general ledger, management reporting, financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, close, and reconciliation • Experience documenting financial data definitions, business rules, mappings, hierarchies, lineage, controls, and data quality requirements • Experience partnering with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, data engineering, business intelligence, security, and enterprise technology teams • Ability to distinguish business ownership and governance responsibilities from technical platform and engineering responsibilities • Strong facilitation skills and the ability to drive decisions across stakeholders with different priorities • Demonstrated ability to create detailed, usable deliverables with limited existing documentation or structure • Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce both detailed working documentation and executive-level summaries • Experience working in a consulting, transformation, or contractor environment where measurable deliverables and knowledge transfer are required • Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving, greenfield environment • Preferred: experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance, cloud data platforms, analytics/reporting tools, data governance/catalog platforms, SQL, data profiling/reconciliation, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, hierarchies, modern data architectures, and SOX-controlled or audit-sensitive environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 12 month temporary assignment