Finance Data Governance Consultant

MassMutual•Springfield, MA

About The Position

As a Finance Data Governance Consultant within Finance Transformation, you will help ensure MassMutual operates from a trusted Single Source of Truth. In this role, you will support governance and oversight of financial data domains by maintaining authoritative data, enforcing data quality standards, and ensuring accurate metadata, lineage, and controls. You will partner closely with senior domain owners, data stewards, technology teams, and business users to strengthen confidence in financial data used for reporting, analysis, and decision‑making. The Team The Finance Data Management team enables trusted, high‑quality financial data through strong governance, stewardship, and partnership across Finance and Technology. Our work supports strategic decision‑making, operational excellence, and regulatory confidence. The Impact In this role, you will strengthen the integrity of MassMutual’s financial data by ensuring it is accurate, well‑governed, and aligned to Single Source of Truth principles. Your work will reduce operational and reporting risk through proactive data quality monitoring and issue resolution, while increasing trust and accessibility of financial data across Finance, Technology, and business partners.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, High School Diploma and 7+ years of professional experience
3+ years of experience in financial data management or related roles
3+ years identifying, monitoring, and remediating data quality issues, including daily data load validation and CDEs

Nice To Haves

5+ years of experience in financial data management, financial shared services, reporting, or regulatory environments
Demonstrated experience with data governance activities, including stewardship engagement, catalog maintenance, and data quality documentation
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to identify root causes
Strong communication, relationship-building and organizational skills with the ability to partner across Finance, Technology, and Data Management
Experience with tools such as SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Collibra, SAP, or Anaplan
Proven ability to work with enterprise data teams to onboard data, improve quality, and support governed finance processes
Experience supporting Corporate Finance functions (e.g., general ledger, sub‑ledgers, planning, reporting, treasury data)

Responsibilities

Maintain complete and accurate metadata, lineage, and catalog entries for assigned finance data domains
Identify and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs), including definitions, transformation logic, lineage, and data quality rules
Validate daily data loads against governance and quality standards; investigate anomalies and coordinate remediation
Monitor data quality (completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and resolve issues surfaced by users or operational controls
Enforce internal control standards related to data governance and data quality monitoring
Act as first line of defense for production data issues by confirming validity, diagnosing root causes, and coordinating fixes
Provide regular updates to data owners and stewards on domain health, open issues, and quality trends
Support onboarding of new data into governed finance schemas, ensuring quality checks, metadata, lineage, and ownership are established
Partner with technology teams to improve data processes by reducing manual effort, increasing automation, and strengthening controls
Maintain accurate catalog content including business definitions, quality rules, ownership, and stewardship relationships
Document and maintain transformation rules, validation logic, and reconciliation controls to support transparency and auditability

Benefits

Regular meetings with the Finance Data Management
Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair equitable pay, by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees.
Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.
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At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees.
Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.
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