Manager, Financial Master Data Governance
About The Position
As part of VF’s Finance Systems organization, the Manager serves as the enterprise finance systems master data governance lead and central gatekeeper for financial data consistency, clarity, and control. The role owns governance across finance systems and ensures shared master data, hierarchies, mappings, and reporting dimensions are designed and maintained consistently across the finance technology landscape. The role combines broad finance systems knowledge with independent judgment, governance ownership, and cross-functional influence. It partners with Finance, Accounting, Technology, Internal Controls, enterprise Data Governance, and system administrators to evaluate changes, resolve conflicts, set requirements, and protect the integrity of financial data across global processes. The Manager owns and administers the finance master data governance framework across BlackLine, Group Reporting, Central Finance, BPC Planning, Coupa, AMT, Workday, and other connected finance applications. The position establishes enterprise standards and decision processes, evaluates requests and system changes, oversees data quality and remediation, and guides implementations, enhancements, integrations, and migrations. It also maintains governance documentation and promotes consistent standards, stronger controls, simpler data structures, and sustainable finance system practices. The role may require extensive sitting and computer use, hours in excess of 40 per week as needed to meet project, close, reporting, or implementation deadlines, and some travel. The position is eligible for additional compensation awards, which may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details are provided during recruiting and interviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business, Data Management, or a related field.
- Five years of experience and professional achievements are sought; the posting does not specify a different minimum or maximum range.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial close, consolidation, planning, reporting, procurement, lease administration, internal controls, and the role of master data across end-to-end finance processes.
- Demonstrated experience governing master data across multiple enterprise systems.
- Deep knowledge of finance master data concepts, including hierarchies, mappings, dimensions, chart of accounts, legal entities, company codes, profit centers, cost centers, intercompany structures, and reporting attributes.
- Ability to independently assess cross-system impacts, make governance recommendations and decisions within established authority, and escalate material risks or exceptions appropriately.
- Experience defining governance standards, ownership, approval workflows, controls, data quality expectations, and documentation requirements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and the ability to reconcile competing business, reporting, technology, and control requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional discussions, influence stakeholders without direct authority, and translate finance requirements into practical data and system solutions.
- Experience supporting system implementations, enhancements, integrations, data migrations, testing, deployment readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Strong communication, facilitation, documentation, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a global, close-driven environment.
- High level of integrity, accountability, attention to detail, and commitment to data accuracy, consistency, control compliance, and auditability.
- May require extensive sitting and use of a keyboard/computer.
- May require hours in excess of 40 per week as needed to meet project, close, reporting, or implementation deadlines.
- Some travel may be required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with several of the following platforms is strongly preferred: BlackLine, Group Reporting, Central Finance, BPC Planning, Coupa, AMT, Workday, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable platforms.
- Formal education in a related field is described as great to have.
Responsibilities
- Own and administer the finance master data governance framework across BlackLine, Group Reporting, Central Finance, BPC Planning, Coupa, AMT, Workday, and other connected finance applications.
- Serve as the central governance authority for financial master data, including company codes, cost centers, profit centers, general ledger accounts, legal entities, hierarchies, mappings, dimensions, and related reference data.
- Define and maintain enterprise finance data standards, ownership models, approval requirements, controls, decision rights, and operating procedures across systems and business processes.
- Evaluate and approve or escalate master data requests and proposed system changes based on business need, data consistency, reporting impact, downstream dependencies, control risk, and alignment with global standards.
- Ensure common data definitions, structures, mappings, and hierarchies remain aligned across source systems, consolidation, planning, procurement, lease administration, reconciliation, reporting, and human capital platforms.
- Partner with the BlackLine Global Administrator to establish master data and governance requirements for BlackLine design and changes, validate data inputs and mappings, and support controlled deployment.
- Provide governance oversight for AMT master and reference data, including standards, ownership, quality, and cross-system alignment.
- Lead governance requirements for finance system implementations, enhancements, integrations, and data migrations by defining data design expectations, reviewing proposed solutions, directing testing priorities, and confirming implementation readiness.
- Monitor financial data quality across systems, identify inconsistencies and control gaps, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate remediation with business and technology owners.
- Resolve or facilitate decisions when system-specific requirements conflict with enterprise finance data standards, escalating material risks or policy exceptions to the appropriate governance forum.
- Maintain governance documentation, data definitions, process flows, lineage, control evidence, decision records, and training materials that support consistent execution and audit readiness.
- Guide finance users, system administrators, and project teams on governance expectations, master data impacts, and required controls; influence stakeholders to adopt global standards and sustainable solutions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify data structures, reduce manual intervention, strengthen controls, improve data quality, and standardize master data practices across finance systems.
Benefits
- Eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential.
- VF offers benefit programs; detailed information about benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
