Finance Data Steward
Remote United States
Full Time Posted 12 days ago
Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
Job Description What you get to do in this role: ServiceNow is changing the way people work. With a service orientation toward the activities, tasks, and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable than ever before. We’re disruptive. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. We are highly adaptable and constantly evolving. We are passionate about our product, and we live for our customers. We have high expectations and a career at ServiceNow means challenging yourself to always be better. This role is responsible for defining and driving data governance within the Finance organization. The preferred candidate will be subject-matter experts in the Finance domain. They will work closely with leaders and process owners within Finance to enable the implementation of data policies and standards.
- Drive vision and strategy for elevating data as a critical enterprise asset
- Partner across finance teams and cross-functional teams to align on required metrics, standard definitions, appropriate data use cases, and identification of subject matter experts.
- Establish and maintain relationships with finance and technical teams to drive engagement and enthusiasm for data quality standards.
- Become finance partner for data & metric definition consistency across ServiceNow
- Partner in the development and enhancement of financial data quality metrics
- Manage the monitoring and enforcement of data governance policies (e.g., access, classification, quality, and storage/retention policies
- Develop and maintain broad knowledge of financial applications that generate, transform, store, or serve data
- Develop strategies and intelligent automation to ensure that data are captured correctly at source. Maintains data lineage and transformation rules across systems.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive data dictionary of key Finance data attributes along with definitions and calculation logic.
- Work with various technical and finance teams to understand and document data quality issues and implement strategies for mitigating.
- Act as an evangelist across finance, driving appropriate use of data for informed decision-making
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, computer science, data analytics or related fields from a four-year university.
- 12+ years of industry experience including 5+ years' experience driving data strategy within large, complex enviornments.
- Strong understanding of Finance domain, preferably in a SaaS or PaaS company or business unit (not required)
- Ability to drive data stewardship practices related to Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Integration, and Data Security, and Data Analysis.
- Knowledge of how data is captured, processed, or stored in software applications.
- The ability to make trade-off decisions between possible, desirable, and viable, which requires a good sense of what is feasible.
- Strong prioritization skills and the discipline to focus on high-impact activities. You must be good at articulating how prioritized initiatives will benefit stakeholders across the company.
- Ability to influence and drive effective communication across all levels.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Enjoys working in a highly collaborative environment.
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