Advisor, Data Management & Governance (SAP Finance)

Job Description

What Data Management and Governance contributes to Cardinal Health The Data & Analytics Function oversees the analytics lifecycle to identify, analyze and present relevant insights that drive business decisions and anticipate opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage. This function manages analytic data platforms, the access, design and implementation of reporting/business intelligence solutions, and the application of advanced quantitative modeling. Data Management and Governance provides direction of data assets and is responsible for data strategy, quality, standards, and service levels. Data management acquires, validates, standardizes, enriches, protects and publishes structured, third party and unstructured data for use by the business. Governance defines and implements policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of trusted data and statistical models to support regulatory and business goals. This is not a technical IT role. This is a business enablement role. Responsibilities The Advisor, Data Governance will be part of the Data office, Data Management and Governance organization as Data Governance Specialist responsible for advancing and maturing Data Governance capabilities across the enterprise. This role will act as a Data Steward and change agent working directly with Data Owners, Business Stakeholders, Data Leads and SMEs to: Execute data governance use cases leveraging the Data Governance Playbook Work with Data Owners and other stakeholders to establish and progress towards defined targets for data management maturity and data quality index Capture and maintain data ownership, prioritization, and criticality of data elements Capture and maintain metadata Identify opportunities to improve data quality through data remediation, process controls, and technology controls Present at Working Groups and other Leadership meetings for alignment and approval Create and govern current state and future state data flows, with identification of dependencies and integration points Support quality & regulatory teams to drive data compliance Qualifications 4-8 years of industry experience Bachelors or equivalent experience in related field Prior experience with finance data management, data analytics, business process analysis SAP or similar ERP system experience is preferred What is expected of you and others at this level Strong project management skills to plan, organize and execute work independently Strong communication skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas including both business and technical teams Strong influential and facilitation skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas Experience with understanding data structures and data elements Experience in driving data governance, data quality and data remediation Experience in leading data modeling, data lineage and data usage decisions Ability to understand the business, high-level technical solutions and associated data creation and consumption Beware of online recruitment scams Recruitment scams are being run by individuals that are not affiliated with Cardinal Health. These scams attempt to utilize the Cardinal Health brand name and logo in emails or false job postings. Victims of these scams are often asked to provide sensitive personal data, provide banking information, or send fees via check or wire transfer prior to receiving a job offer. During the application process, Cardinal Health will never request or solicit money, bank or credit card information or tax forms, require applicants to purchase equipment or communicate via online chat rooms, Google Hangout, or through social email accounts like Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail. All legitimate job opportunities are posted on the Cardinal Health careers site. If you have any questions whether a job advertisement or solicitation is a legitimate Cardinal Health job opening, please email us.