Consultant, Financial Data Governance

Nationwide • Columbus, OH

6h • $97,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Consultant within Finance Data Governance – Data Integration & Quality (DIQ), the role is responsible for mitigating data risk across Finance through preventive, monitoring, and resolution activities to ensure financial data is accurate, complete, timely, accessible, and protected. This associate will partner closely with the Enterprise Data Office, data stewards, governance committees, and finance business partners to support end-to-end data quality and governance processes, driving both proactive controls and effective issue resolution across the financial data ecosystem. This role requires a strong balance of data governance, analytical problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure trusted financial data that supports business decision-making and regulatory requirements. 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.

Requirements

• Eight years of progressive experience in planning, designing and implementing enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives.
• Extensive experience in functional, process, information, and data modeling, data management and warehousing and applications integration.
• In-depth experience with process re-design methods and tools.
• Accounting/finance background; process management; continuous improvement approach; project management and consulting.
• Experience with processes, systems and tools: interfaces, reference data, reporting, allocations; understanding of SQL and other computer programming languages.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Comfortable learning and using new software and familiarity with common desktop tools.
• Capable of performing in a production oriented environment, while meeting SLAs and deliverable.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; interpersonal skills and communication.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to understand and document complex data flows; data research and analysis with large volumes of data (SQL, Microsoft Excel, PeopleSoft, Access); solid understanding of effective internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Support data governance, stewardship, and policy adherence to ensure consistent, controlled Finance data
• Consult on projects to assess data impacts, align with standards, and mitigate data risk
• Monitor critical data elements and execute data quality controls, reporting, and issue tracking
• Maintain finance glossary, data assets, metadata, and lineage across enterprise tools and processes
• Lead root cause analysis and coordinate resolution of data quality issues with cross-functional partners
• Support of our operational processes to maintain the integrity of our work
• 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.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision
• life insurance
• short and long term disability coverage
• paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• company-paid pension plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree