Senior Analyst, Data Governance

As a team member in the Finance 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, Internal Audit, 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.

• Background in finance or accounting, with a solid understanding of core financial principles
• Experience with systems, ideally from a business user perspective
• Hands-on or functional knowledge of Workday platforms, including:
  • Workday Accounting Center
  • Workday Prism Analytics
  • Workday General Ledger (GL) Financials
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and support data-driven decision-making
• Comfortable collaborating across finance and systems teams to support operational and transformation initiatives

This position will be hired on a SuccessFlex basis.

The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of the following location:

Columbus: One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus OH, 43215

Work schedule: 2 days in office, 3 days remote.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

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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 Senior Analyst, Data Governance, 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.

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