Finance Data Integration and Quality

About the role

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, you'll bring your accounting expertise to help shape how financial data is governed, trusted, and used across Finance. As a member of the Finance Data Integration and Quality team (DIQ), you'll partner throughout Controllership, Finance and the Enterprise to improve data quality, strengthen controls, and solve complex data challenges. By combining financial knowledge with modern governance practices, you'll help ensure trusted financial data that supports reporting, decision-making, and regulatory compliance. This role offers an opportunity to expand your finance perspective, influence decisions beyond traditional accounting boundaries, and build expertise in modern data governance and controls. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, collaboration, and a passion for improving the quality and integrity of financial information.

Responsibilities

• Consults with Finance business partners to analyze, design, implement, and operationalize solutions with an emphasis on ensuring the integrity of Nationwide's financial data; consults with financial and business unit leadership on complex, multi-functional projects, processes and systems that support strategic financial and corporate initiatives.
• Develops, plans and coordinates complex financial projects for business units and the Office of Finance; delivers on all aspects of financial projects according to guidelines, budget, impact, scope and strategic focus; assists in resource planning and project estimation.
• Leads the impact analysis and manages the financial data elements owned by Finance Data Governance, such as reference data, business rules, allocation rules; supports data governance applications, researches and advises senior management on the industry practices for obtaining, recording and analyzing data; enforces compliance to standards set forth by FDG.
• Ensures changes to Finance data flows and elements owned by Finance Data Governance such as reference data, business rules, allocation rules, etc. follow the established approval framework; defines and enforces standards around Finance data architecture such as usage, storage, access and transparency.
• Serves as a team lead in providing operational support for Finance back office processes, systems, and reports; recommends and maintains financial controls; provides audit support.
• Performs complex data analysis and trending related to financial activity and related environmental statistics such as record counts, volumes, exceptions, etc. Identifies and determines root cause for data quality items impacting Finance; recommends solutions and strategies; maintains and reports scorecard metrics.
• Exhibits expertise in design, development, maintenance and continuous improvement of business processes and procedures.
• Partners with business units and Nationwide Technology in documenting planning solutions, including business case development and road maps; serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership.
• Communicates with a wide variety of audiences; exhibits advanced presentation and facilitation skills; initiates, develops and maintains relationships with key business partners; conducts and leads training for business partners and less experienced staff.

Qualifications

Education: Undergraduate studies in business, accounting, mathematics, computer science, management information systems or a related field, with comparable work experience preferred.

Experience: Eight years of progressive experience in planning, designing and implementing enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives. Extensive experience in functional, process, information, and data modeling, data management and warehousing and applications integration. In-depth experience with process re-design methods and tools.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:

• Accounting/finance background; process management; continuous improvement approach; project management and consulting.
• Experience with processes, systems and tools: interfaces, reference data, reporting, allocations; understanding of SQL and other computer programming languages.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Comfortable learning and using new software and familiarity with common desktop tools.
• Capable of performing in a production oriented environment, while meeting SLAs and deliverables.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; interpersonal skills and communication.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to understand and document complex data flows; data research and analysis with large volumes of data (SQL, Microsoft Excel, PeopleSoft, Access); solid understanding of effective internal controls.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• Nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid pension plan
• Business casual attire

Pay

National salary range for Consultant, Financial Data Governance Advisor: $97,000.00–$180,000.00

Expected starting salary range: $97,000.00–$145,000.00

Schedule

This position will be hired on a SuccessFlex basis. The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of 1 Nationwide Plaza. Work schedule: 2 days in office, 3 days remote.

Job Conditions

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to Director/Associate Vice President.