Project Manager, Data Strategy & Management
Basking Ridge, Nj, Us
Served as Finance Data Governance lead, facilitating enterprise- and finance-level data councils, driving adoption of data governance best practices and standardizing financial data management processes.• Defined & operationalized end-to-end data management change control process & technical solution to centralize multiple finance & accounting teams into one framework, improve ease-of-use, introduce approval controls, create accuracy & completeness checks, reduce manual & redundant steps, improve SLA and replicate data consistently across platforms. Adapt master data blueprint to fulfill ERP project evolution. • As facilitator of enterprise data governance community of practice, led calls where SMEs convened to discuss challenges & share solutions, develop an enterprise data governance playbook and evaluate tools; conducted annual data management maturity assessments for 10 teams to establish baselines, determine improvement steps & monitor YoY progress; introduced enterprise critical data element governance to prioritize efforts. Through shared knowledge, the CoP readied local teams for enterprise-level governance, increased data value, reduced costs by streamlining toolsets & improved data analytics. • Drafted strategies for enterprise & finance data governance programs, including objectives, adoption strategy, operating models & roadmaps to leverage data assets to reduce risks, drive value and minimize costs.• Developed curriculum for finance data governance, introducing roles & responsibilities and conducted trainings to finance teams on business glossary, data dictionary, policy manager, data lineage & community management in Collibra, advancing finance’s data management maturity.• Pursuant to an internal audit request, directed resources from multiple business & IT teams to document & track data lineage of data ownership, business definitions, calculation rules & source systems for externally reported metrics from reports to systems of record.