Position Summary
The Finance Data Office Leader will develop and execute the Finance digital, systems, data, and analytics strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap. This leader will build the office as a Finance capability that improves decision support, strengthens data ownership and quality, simplifies the Finance technology landscape, and enables scalable digital and analytics solutions. This role is responsible for aligning enterprise reporting, finance data governance, analytics, and finance transformation priorities across Finance, IT, Enterprise Data, FP&A, Controllership, Tax, Treasury, business unit finance teams, and executive stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
• Finance Digital, Data, and Systems Strategy
• Align FDO initiatives with enterprise data strategy, finance transformation objectives, and business decision-making needs.
• Translate Finance priorities into an integrated FDO roadmap and delivery portfolio, with clear scope, sequencing, dependencies, resources, milestones, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Communicate strategy, progress, risks, outcomes, trade-offs, and decisions needed in clear business language.
• Finance Data Governance, Ownership, and Quality
• Establish clear ownership and governance for Finance master data, reference data, metadata, business definitions, hierarchies, and critical data elements, in partnership with enterprise data, IT, and Finance process owners
• Define data quality standards, controls, monitoring, and remediation processes, including escalation of issues affecting reporting, planning, forecasting, controls, or management decisions.
• Partner with IT and enterprise data teams to define data warehouse, semantic layer, data lineage, access, security, and integration requirements for finance reporting and analytics.
• Partner with Finance process owners so process design, transaction capture, data ownership, controls, and downstream reporting work together effectively.
• Data Analytics and Reporting
• Own the Finance data and reporting product portfolio, including requirements, prioritization, delivery, release planning, adoption, performance, and ongoing improvement.
• Define and govern the reporting lifecycle, including design standards, certification, ownership, access, maintenance, support, usage monitoring, rationalization, and retirement.
• Lead the development and adoption of standardized dashboards, executive reports, self-service analytics capabilities, and decision-ready review materials.
• Enable future capabilities such as AI-enabled commentary, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and automated reporting, with appropriate governance and controls.
• Partner with Finance process owners to ensure that reporting requirements, data definitions, controls, and ownership reflect end-to-end Finance processes and support consistent global ways of working.
• Finance Systems Strategy and Application Portfolio
• Own the Finance systems strategy and roadmap, ensuring that technology investments support Finance priorities and the future operating model.
• Partner with Enterprise Technology on architecture, solution design, security, access, integration, delivery, and ongoing support.
• Ensure financial controls, data controls, privacy, security, compliance, risk management, and business continuity requirements are built into solutions and operating practices.
• Value Realization and Performance
• Develop credible business cases and value measures for major Finance digital, systems, data, and analytics investments.
• Define performance measures, including adoption, time-to-insight, data quality, issue resolution, stakeholder satisfaction, delivery performance, and realized value.
• Drive change management, stakeholder engagement, training, and data literacy efforts to support adoption of FDO capabilities across Finance and business stakeholders.
• Leadership and Capability Building
• Build and lead a cross-functional Finance Data Office spanning Finance systems, data ownership, reporting and analytics, data governance and data quality.
Qualifications
Required
• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, controllership, finance transformation, enterprise reporting, data governance, analytics, or related roles, with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity.
• Prior experience leading or standing up a Finance Data Office, Reporting & Analytics Hub, Finance Center of Excellence, enterprise data governance function, FP&A transformation team, or similar capability within a complex global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to align senior Finance, IT, Enterprise Data, and business stakeholders around common data definitions, KPI standards, reporting priorities, governance processes, and ownership models.
• Hands-on familiarity with finance data, ERP and EPM ecosystems, data warehouse concepts, BI/reporting platforms, and analytics tools such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, OneStream, Anaplan, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable platforms.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams through operating model change, technology implementation, report rationalization, data quality improvement, automation and self-service analytics adoption.
Preferred
• Experience in a global healthcare, medical technology, technology, manufacturing, or similarly complex regulated environment.
• MBA, Master of Finance, Master of Accounting, Master of Business Analytics, Master of Information Systems, or other relevant graduate degree preferred.
• Professional certification such as CPA, CMA, CFA, PMP, Certified Data Management Professional, or data governance/analytics certification is preferred but not required.
