Consultant, Financial Data Governance

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Internal Comp Grade is G3

This is a hybrid position located in Columbus Ohio and you will be required to come into the office two days per week. 

If you're ready to lead, innovate, and thrive in a collaborative, problem-solving environment, we invite you to apply and join FDG Change Management team on this exciting journey!

In this role, you will work on diverse projects, represent Change Management in project meetings, and make key decisions related to FDG work, ensuring projects are completed successfully.

You will manage Close, Rule Change Requests, Interface Support, and other operational tasks, collaborating daily with various teams, both Business and IT.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to train and lead other associates, fostering a supportive and growth-oriented environment.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Collaborate with Finance business partners and IT partners to analyze, design, implement, and operationalize solutions, ensuring the integrity of financial data.

Assist in the development, planning, and coordination of complex financial projects.

Manage financial data elements owned by Finance Data Governance and support data governance applications.

Ensure compliance with standards and provide input on finance data architecture.

Provide operational support for finance back-office processes, systems, and reports, maintaining financial controls and audit support.

Perform data analysis and identify root causes for data quality issues.

Assist in the continuous improvement of business processes and procedures.

Document planning solutions and develop business cases and road maps.

Communicate effectively with various audiences and develop collaborative relationships with key business partners.

Train business partners and less experienced staff.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

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Job Description Summary

Do you want to invest in yourself and thrive in an environment of innovation, problem solving, collaboration and learning? If you’re prepared to work in a technology-enabled, digitally-focused organization, where Controllership is a captivating and respected career, we want to hear from you!

As a Consultant, you'll consult and deliver on changes to the financial systems environment and providing complex impact analysis on those changes; primary domains include business rules (interfaces), reference data, reporting and allocations. We'll count on you to provide operational support for Finance back office processes, systems and reports. In addition, you'll provide oversight of the Finance data model to ensure accurate, credible and relevant Finance data for our business partners.

Job Description

Key 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.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director/Associate Vice President.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

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 deliverable. 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.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

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. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.