Finance Data Governance Consultant

TL;DR

Finance Data Governance Consultant: Support governance and oversight of financial data domains by maintaining authoritative data, enforcing quality standards, and ensuring accurate metadata, lineage, and controls with an accent on data quality monitoring, issue resolution, and Critical Data Elements documentation. Focus on validating daily data loads, investigating anomalies, and partnering with domain owners, stewards, and technology teams to strengthen financial data integrity.

Location: Springfield, Massachusetts

Salary: $102,500-$134,500

Company

Financial services company enabling trusted financial data through governance, stewardship, and partnerships across Finance and Technology.

What you will do

• Maintain complete metadata, lineage, and catalog entries for finance data domains
• Identify and document Critical Data Elements, including definitions, transformation logic, and quality rules
• Validate daily data loads, monitor quality (completeness, accuracy, timeliness), and resolve issues
• Act as first line of defense for production data issues, diagnosing root causes and coordinating fixes
• Support onboarding new data into governed schemas and partner with technology teams to automate processes
• Provide updates to data owners on domain health and quality trends

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma with 7+ years professional experience
• 3+ years 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 have

• 5+ years in financial data management, shared services, reporting, or regulatory environments
• Experience with data governance, stewardship, catalog maintenance, and quality documentation
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Experience with SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Collibra, SAP, or Anaplan
• Supporting Corporate Finance functions like general ledger, planning, reporting, treasury

Culture & Benefits

• Regular meetings with Finance Data Management team and one-on-one with manager
• Networking via Business Resource Groups (Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran, disability-focused)
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other platforms
• Strong ethical business with industry-leading pay and benefits