Strategic Director — Finance Data Strategy & Stewardship

Salesforce; Toronto; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Director of Finance Data Strategy & Stewardship to lead the end-to-end governance and lifecycle management of Finance data across the enterprise. This role oversees data intake, modeling, and governance to enable reliable reporting and analytics.

You will manage a dedicated Data Governance and Reporting Controls team in India, drive SOX certification, and partner with Finance, IT, and Audit to ensure data quality and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of experience in data management, data governance, Finance data strategy, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of Finance processes, accounting flows, and financial reporting requirements; audit experience is a plus.
• Proven experience designing data models, managing data lakes, and overseeing data ingestion and transformation.
• Leadership experience managing global or offshore teams, ideally in shared-services or GCC environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Finance data strategy, aligned with business priorities and downstream reporting needs.
• Oversee onboarding of new data sources into the Finance data lake and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Lead the design of enterprise-grade Finance data models and semantic layers for analytics and reporting.
• Establish and monitor data quality rules, governance policies, and SOX-related controls.
• Lead and develop the India-based Data Governance Team and support data certification for reporting.

Skills

Data governance

Data modeling

SOX controls

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Director of Finance Data Strategy & Stewardship to lead the end-to-end governance and lifecycle management of Finance data across the enterprise. This role oversees data intake, modeling, and governance to enable reliable reporting and analytics.

You will manage a dedicated Data Governance and Reporting Controls team in India, drive SOX certification, and partner with Finance, IT, and Audit to ensure data quality and regulatory compliance.