Stream Head - Finance Process Excellence & Data Governance

Grade Level: L3

Location: Islamabad

Apply by:  20th June, 2025

What is Stream Head of Finance Process Excellence & Data Governance?

Stream Head - Finance Processes Excellence & Data Governance is responsible for leading and optimizing finance processes, ensuring data governance, and leveraging business intelligence and data analytics to drive strategic decision-making. This role involves overseeing process reviews, benchmarking, optimization, master data governance, exploring & implementing business intelligence, data science, and Oracle data analytics.

Key Responsibilities:

Finance Transformation & Process Excellence

• Support in developing, and execute finance transformation roadmaps to optimize finance processes, reporting, and controls.
• Conduct process reviews, benchmark against industry standards/best practices to eliminate inefficiencies, improving reporting and/or controls, drive standardization etc
• Evaluate Oracle Fusion and other systems, where applicable, to automate and/or optimize finance processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, with specific focus on SBU needs.

Data Governance & Analytics

• Oversee master data governance to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Utilize business intelligence tools to provide insights and support decision-making.
• Introduce and apply data science techniques to analyze financial data and identify trends.
• Manage Oracle data analytics to support finance operations and reporting.

Stakeholders Management

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Finance, IT and Business stakeholders, ensuring effective governance, tracking, communication and adoption of transformation initiatives
• Act as a change agent within & outside finance w.r.t. finance process optimization
• Create appropriate reporting & escalation forum(s) for regular updates on the overall roadmap and progress status

Requirements

• A professional accounting qualification or bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Management Sciences.
• 5-7 years of specific experience in finance system or process optimization and data governance. Lean Six Sigma Prectitioner (black belt) will be preferred
• Experience with Oracle & other business intelligence tools and data analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles and practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong team management & leadership abilities.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in business intelligence and data analytics tools.
• Knowledge of industry benchmarks and best practices in finance processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

Why Join Jazz?

As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.

As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 75 million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.