Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant (Contract)

Required

• 8+ 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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.