Senior Finance Data & Reporting Governance Specialist

Passion for Financial Data and Governance? Aiming to be part of a dynamic team and spread your wings?

To strengthen our international team, we are looking for a Senior Finance Data & Reporting Governance Specialist with a strong focus on Data & Process Quality. The role is placed in the Data & Process Governance Team within the Global Data function. In this role, you'll share our reporting vision, help us spread it to the countries and work diligently to keep data quality at highest standards. You'll be also empowered and required to analyse & improve underlying processes.

Through close cooperation with the Global Development & IT Team, this role also ensures high quality global deployments of reporting and analysis solutions. Moreover, you'll be responsible for both the execution as well as development of our governance around Finance reporting and its dependency with Finance. Assurance of compliance as well as the constant improvement of our state-of-the-art global reporting and analytics solutions are also essential deliverables within this role.

DATA & REPORTING QUALITY ASSURANCE

You'll assure high data quality through comprehensive validations to secure data consistency, integrity, completeness, accuracy & timeliness, especially for Operations & Finance interdependencies during Month-End-Closing

PROCESS GOVERNANCE, TRAINING & SUPPORT

You'll be responsible of enabling processes through testing & activation of new developments as well as rollouts (sign-off & deployment). In addition, you'll focus on process governance, training & support for Financial reporting processes/solutions. Process analysis & review to deliver continuous process improvements for Finance Reporting as well as tight collaboration with Process development team to drive strategic process developments on Reporting & Analysis solutions are also areas of responsibilities. 

PROJECT & ENHANCEMENT MANAGEMENT

You’ll also be our in-house consultant (support in the THINK/DESIGN phase of projects) for related SME areas. You'll manage & coordinate Finance Reporting solution/process related enhancements together with our IT counterparts. Finally, you'll deploy and rollout reporting solutions to our Finance community.

Professional experience in the field of data & process governance

Solid Finance background and good understanding of Finance processes are essential

Technical experience with ERP/BW systems or corresponding reporting/analysis solutions (e.g. SAP BEx Web, Crystal Reports, BO Analysis and Analytics Cloud, Tableau) is beneficial

Programming skills (e.g. VBA, R, Python) are perceived as an asset

High attention to detail with excellent organisational and analytical skills, and the capability to handle multiple projects and stakeholders

Ability to understand complex system correlations, quickly identify and analyse solution delivery risks & impacts as well as to define alternatives & prioritizations

Ability to communicate effectively with both business & technical teams as well as global stakeholders

Due to legal reasons we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is EUR 2,509 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.