Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant (Contract)

The role

This consultant will establish and operationalize the Finance Data Governance capability. They will partner across Finance and Technology to define standards, document data lineage, and establish data quality controls.

What you will do

• Assess current maturity of Finance data governance and management practices.
• Design and implement a Finance Data Governance operating model.
• Create governance standards, procedures, templates, and approval processes.
• Identify and inventory priority Finance data domains, systems, and elements.
• Document business definitions, ownership, and downstream dependencies.
• Map data from source systems through integration, transformation, and reporting.
• Define Finance data quality standards, rules, and monitoring requirements.
• Govern Finance master data, reference data, mappings, and hierarchies.
• Support documentation and validation of SAP financial and consolidation data.
• Facilitate workshops and develop training materials for data owners and stewards.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data governance, Finance data management, Finance transformation, financial systems, data quality, metadata management, or related consulting roles.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or materially improving a data governance and data strategy capability in a complex enterprise.
• Strong understanding of Finance processes, including general ledger, management reporting, financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, close, and reconciliation.
• Experience documenting financial data definitions, business rules, mappings, hierarchies, lineage, controls, and data quality requirements.
• Experience partnering with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, data engineering, business intelligence, security, and enterprise technology teams.
• Ability to distinguish business ownership and governance responsibilities from technical platform and engineering responsibilities.
• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to drive decisions across stakeholders with different priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to create detailed, usable deliverables with limited existing documentation or structure.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Experience working in a consulting, transformation, or contractor environment where measurable deliverables and knowledge transfer are required.
• Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving, greenfield environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and related financial data structures, consolidation, or group reporting (e.g., ACDOCA, ACDOCU).
• Experience with cloud data platforms, enterprise analytics/reporting tools, and data governance/catalog platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI, Domo, Atlan, Collibra, Purview, or similar).
• Strong understanding of data quality and architecture, including SQL, data profiling/reconciliation, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, hierarchies, and modern data architectures.
• Experience working with Finance data in SOX-controlled or audit-sensitive environments, including data supporting automation and AI.
• Consulting, Finance transformation, or enterprise data advisory experience.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles).

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.