Consultant, Financial Data Governance Advisor

As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Internal Comp Grade is G3

This position can be fully remote for the right candidate.

Job Description Summary

Do you want to invest in yourself and thrive in an environment of innovation, problem solving, collaboration and learning? If you’re prepared to work in a technology-enabled, digitally-focused organization, where Controllership is a captivating and respected career, we want to hear from you!

As a Consultant, you'll consult and deliver on changes to the financial systems environment and providing complex impact analysis on those changes; primary domains include business rules (interfaces), reference data, reporting and allocations. We'll count on you to provide operational support for Finance back office processes, systems and reports. In addition, you'll provide oversight of the Finance data model to ensure accurate, credible and relevant Finance data for our business partners.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Consults with Finance business partners to analyze, design, implement, and operationalize solutions with an emphasis on ensuring the integrity of Nationwide's financial data; consults with financial and business unit leadership on complex, multi-functional projects, processes and systems that support strategic financial and corporate initiatives.

• Develops, plans and coordinates complex financial projects for business units and the Office of Finance; delivers on all aspects of financial projects according to guidelines, budget, impact, scope and strategic focus; assists in resource planning and project estimation.

• Leads the impact analysis and manages the financial data elements owned by Finance Data Governance, such as reference data, business rules, allocation rules; supports data governance applications, researches and advises senior management on the industry practices for obtaining, recording and analyzing data; enforces compliance to standards set forth by FDG.

• Ensures changes to Finance data flows and elements owned by Finance Data Governance such as reference data, business rules, allocation rules, etc. follow the established approval framework; defines and enforces standards around Finance data architecture such as usage, storage, access and transparency.

• Serves as a team lead in providing operational support for Finance back office processes, systems, and reports; recommends and maintains financial controls; provides audit support.

• Performs complex data analysis and trending related to financial activity and related environmental statistics such as record counts, volumes, exceptions, etc. Identifies and determines root cause for data quality items impacting Finance; recommends solutions and strategies; maintains and reports scorecard metrics.

• Exhibits expertise in design, development, maintenance and continuous improvement of business processes and procedures.

• Partners with business units and Nationwide Technology in documenting planning solutions, including business case development and road maps; serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership.

• Communicates with a wide variety of audiences; exhibits advanced presentation and facilitation skills; initiates, develops and maintains relationships with key business partners; conducts and leads training for business partners and less experienced staff.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director/Associate Vice President.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in business, accounting, mathematics, computer science, management information systems or a related field, with comparable work experience preferred.

Experience: Eight years o