Specialist, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Finance Chief Data Office (CDO) is a newly formed team to establish the data governance framework across Finance. The team partners with the Data Strategy and Digital groups to execute the data disciplines. We support data consumers to drive data quality across Finance functions, including accounting, regulatory and financial reporting, CFO teams and corporate treasury. We aim to provide transparency of our data asset and actively manage the asset to contribute to the fulfilment of regulatory requirements and creation of operational efficiency. The CDO function plays a critical role in the transformation of the organization by connecting data, technology, processes and controlsJob descriptionThe Specialist Project Management is one of the core roles in assisting, organizing & reporting on the Finance CDO team scope of work. This staff position is expected to primarily work with Finance CDO Data Quality, Governance and Reporting leads along with multiple business stakeholders and senior management across Finance organization.Key ResponsibilitiesManages and oversees the end to end project management activities such as project planning, scope management, estimation, schedules, tracking progress / issue / risks and related project artifactsDevelops detailed project plans and schedules with leads across spectrum of projects in Finance CDO org e.g. Data Quality, DataMart Platform Re-architecture, BI Reports development and Operations etc.Facilitates adoption of appropriate project management tools and techniques.Setup and lead scrum calls to Identify, capture and report on scope, deliverables, milestones and any dependencies to other data related initiatives in Finance e.g. Finance Data as a Service program.Assist in defining processes to automate and effectively monitor data quality and BI reports development issues and facilitate follow-through with cross-track stakeholders.Set up JIRA instance to enable tickets management and reporting in conjunction with other Data Quality and governance toolsFacilitate issues remediation with relevant teams (Sources, Technology, Business, Finance, etc.)Identify areas of process improvement and make recommendations for long-term solutionsStatus reporting to senior management on Finance CDO teams project milestones, risks and mitigationsEffective in managing diverse teams and stakeholdersExcellent written and verbal communication skills required.The staff member will be expected to cultivate relationships with staff or contractors in: Finance, Technology, Data Strategy, Data Operations to ensure efficient identification, collection, and use of data along with the management of the associated data governance processes.QualificationsBachelor s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required.Project management professional qualification preferably PMP, CSMWork toward or completion of MBA, CFA, or CPA/CA preferred.Skills & Experience7-10 years of project management experience required in waterfall and agile environments, preferably in financial industry and data quality or data governance related projects.Proficient in project management tools such as MS Office, MS Project, VisioProficient in files and tickets management systems like JIRA, Sharepoint, ConfluenceCompetency with some data governance tools Collibra, IMT, IDQCompetency with some leading data profiling tools (such as SQL, BI tools Power BI, Alteryx etc.)Ability to work independently and with distributed teams (i.e. physically located in other regions).Exposure with finance data sets and process: Balance Sheet, P&L, Consolidations, Client Product Profitability, liquidity analytics and reporting, interest rate risk management, asset-liability management, regulatory reporting, is strongly preferred.,

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