Finance Data Domain Owner
*This position can be a Remote opportunity, with travel once a quarter*
The opportunity
As the Finance Data Domain Owner, you will have significant interaction and partnership with the finance data owners and other MassMutual data leaders. You will play a key role in driving culture change to enable data access, self-service, and usage across Corporate Finance to allow users to become fluent in using data with best practices.? You will partner with the technology team to leverage emerging enterprise technology capabilities in data enablement and consumption; deliver efficient and optimized financial data related processes; execute a strong governance oversight. As the Finance Data Domain Owner, you will report to the Director of Finance Data Operations.
The Team
The Finance Data Management team, within Controller's group, manages financial data domains used by MassMutual and supports significant financial applications. The team take lead in three areas data innovation & efficiency, data governance, partnership with business and technology. The team supports a broad set of financial applications including general ledger, sub-ledgers, planning, reporting and treasury tools. Our vision is be the expert data management function to champion and democratize optimized financial data, in turn enabling self-service across Corporate Finance to be a best-in-class strategic finance team.
The Impact
We are looking for a data management professional who can deliver business value by supporting financial data enablement, governance and consumption. The key responsibilities:
- Works with data owners to translate business requirements to data requirements
- Provides support to data projects to meet standards
- Builds a strong engagement with Enterprise Technology and Customer Experience (ETX) organization to manage data on-boarding to the data lake
- Performs data governance in compliance with enterprise data governance policy and standards
- Identifies critical data elements and document their metadata and lineage
- Governs the data life cycle of data domains from inception to production in data lake
- Documents data quality and transformation rules appropriately
- Reduce manual touchpoints through manual spreadsheets used to load data into data lake
- Facilitates remediation of finance data management-related issues
- Maintains MassMutual internal control standards
The Minimum QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of work experience in the financial data management role
- Experience in financial data for financial shared services, financial reporting or regulatory reporting
- Experience in data governance
- Innate desire to provide excellent service to clients
- Demonstrated skills of business analysis and data management
- Organized and detail-oriented; multi-task various responsibilities
- Ability to think critically and demonstrate good judgment
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple deliverables
- Bachelor's degree in data science/engineering, statistics, finance, accounting or related field
The Ideal QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of work experience in the financial data management role
- Experience in data domain management of financial data for financial shared services, financial reporting or regulatory reporting
- Experience in data governance
- Experience in a Corporate Finance function
- Experience with life insurance, annuities, DI. data domain owner i.e. Capital, Invested Assets, expenses, flows and insurance
- Experience in working for finance data oversight
- Excellent relationship building, influencing and communication skills
- Ability to think critically and demonstrate good judgment
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple deliverables
- Master's degree, MBA, PMP certified
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with the finance data management team
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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