Role Overview
Our Corporate FP&A team drives enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, management reporting, and executive-level financial communications. As we modernize our finance function through modern cloud data platforms and advanced analytics, we are seeking a transformative leader to own the finance data strategy.
As the Director, FP&A Data Lead, you will define and execute the roadmap for governed, high-quality, and AI-ready finance data products. Acting as the critical link between Finance and Technology, you will enable scalable planning, automated reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise. This is a highly visible, emergent role where you will shape how finance data is structured, governed, and leveraged company-wide.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Roadmap & Leadership
Lead the end-to-end data strategy and roadmap, aligning with enterprise finance transformation goals including planning modernization, standardized reporting, executive decision support, and AI enablement.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Business Unit Finance, Data Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, and Governance teams to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions.
Data Product Design & Governance
Design and govern reusable finance data products, semantic layers, and data models that standardize key metrics, reporting hierarchies, and financial logic across planning tools, dashboards, semantic platforms, and downstream analytics.
Execution & Delivery
Drive the full product lifecycle—translating requirements into technical specifications, managing agile backlogs, prioritizing use cases, enabling end-users through training/documentation, and measuring success via data quality and business impact KPIs.
Quality & Control Standards
Establish and enforce robust data governance frameworks, including validation rules, reconciliation routines, certification tiers, metadata management, data lineage, documentation, and access controls.
Continuous Improvement
Champion standardization, simplification, and process enhancement across finance reporting while staying ahead of emerging trends in finance transformation and AI capabilities.
Qualifications

Basic Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
5–10 years of professional experience, with a strong emphasis on finance processes and data transformation.

Desired Characteristics & Experience
Finance Acumen: Deep understanding of financial planning, analytics, management reporting, and financial hierarchies.
Industry Context: Experience driving finance data transformation within a large, complex, multi-business-unit organization (e.g., media, entertainment, technology, or consumer products).
Technical Tooling: Familiarity with modern data platforms, data catalogs, and semantic layer tools. Experience with enterprise performance management (EPM) or similar planning/BI platforms is highly preferred.
Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to bridge business and technology teams, aligning diverse stakeholders around a unified vision.
Product Mindset: Demonstrated experience defining roadmaps, prioritizing features, managing backlogs, and tracking adoption and business impact.
Governance Focus: Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and enterprise data quality standards.

Director, Finance Data Product

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