Senior Manager - Data Governance & Management

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Senior Manager- Data Governance & Management:

As part of the Financial Reporting Quality Assurance Organization (FRQA) within Corporate Controllership, this role is responsible for overall data governance and management related compliance with various policies for Finance. Finance Data Governance (FDG) team is leading the effort of defining the future roadmap for data governance within Finance.

This FDG Senior Manager is focused on ensuring that Finance data governance and management processes are complying with the data and risk policies and appropriate controls and documentation exists to stand a regulatory or internal examination or audit. She/He will be responsible for remediating any gaps or issues either self-identified or noted during an audit or examination.

The FDG Senior Manager is a collaborator, a well-organized, action-oriented individual with exceptional leadership and time management skills, confident in presenting, facilitating, and building a network of strong relationships across our organization.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic thought partnership with the 1st (Enterprise Data Office), 2nd (Enterprise Data Risk Management), 3rd (Internal Audit) line of defenses, Technology, and Regulatory Reporting teams to ensure compliance with data risk policies.
• Support or lead various audits, reviews, or examinations performed on Finance Data Governance processes.
• Support or lead remediation of findings or gaps identified in the data governance and management processes.
• Assess impact of new policies or policy refreshes – Enterprise Data Management Operational Policy and Enterprise Data Risk Policy - on the processes and guide the team in change management or establishing new processes.
• Making sure appropriate documentation exists for data governance and management processes.   
• Establish Finance Data Governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities.
• Implementing requirements of the Enterprise Data Governance Policy within various critical Finance systems/processes.
• Support implementation of process improvement initiatives to make Finance Data Governance more effective and efficient.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to finance data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the finance systems.
• Advancing the Data Governance Strategy for the Finance Data Management initiative. This initiative involves utilizing new technologies to create one standardized data set that can be utilized for broader Finance thus minimizing multiple point solutions, da