Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Partner I (MDG Finance)

Nielsen Sports; Mumbai; In loco; INR 3.500.000 - 5.500.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Nielsen Sports SA in Mumbai seeks a Senior Analyst for Master Data Governance within the FPA organization. You will design, implement, and maintain SAP Master Data Governance for financial and enterprise data, ensuring data integrity across financial structures, materials, and business partners, and acting as the centralized gatekeeper for data sanity.

You will lead governance maintenance, data quality hygiene, system enhancement projects, and stakeholder management, collaborating with finance,

Competenze

• Experience designing and implementing governance processes for master data in SAP MDG/S/4HANA
• Ability to map and govern financial and enterprise master data (cost centers, profit centers, GLs, CoA)
• Proven ability to drive data quality initiatives and perform data audits across P2P, O2C and R2R

Mansioni

• Data Governance Maintenance: design governance processes, standards, and definitions for financial and enterprise master data.
• Data Quality Hygiene: challenge stakeholders on data creation requests to prevent data bloat and ensure alignment across systems.
• System Implementation Enhancements: translate business needs into MDG solutions and lead workshops and testing.
• Reporting Stakeholder Management: maintain documentation and act as SME for enterprise MDG.

Conoscenze

Data governance

Data quality management

Stakeholder management

Process design

Strumenti

SAP MDG

SAP S/4HANA

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Job Description

About the Role

As a Senior Analyst in Master Data Governance within our FPA organization, you will serve as the critical bridge between finance operations, commercial/supply chain teams, system architecture, and strategic planning. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining SAP Master Data Governance for both Financial and Enterprise Data. By ensuring absolute data integrity across financial structures, materials, and business partners, managing workflows, and acting as the centralized gatekeeper for data sanity, you will directly enable accurate financial reporting, profitability analysis, forecasting, and cross-functional business transformation. Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

1. 1. Data Governance Maintenance

   Process Design Implementation: Design and execute governance processes, data standards, and definitions for core financial and enterprise master data within systems like SAP S/4HANA. This includes:

   Financial Data: Cost Centers, Profit Centers, General Ledgers, and Chart of Accounts.

   Commercial Supply Chain Data: Material Codes, Business Partners (Vendor Names, Customer Names), and Sales Groups.

   Centralized Gatekeeping: Act as the central control point for all master data updates before they are released to controllership or procurement/sales, ensuring strict adherence to global financial and business standards.

   Workflow Management: Streamline request intake workflows, standardize templates, and refine exception-handling procedures utilizing SAP MDG, S/4HANA, and internal IT ticketing systems.

   Execution: Execute complex master data creation, extension, and modification requests across all relevant domains within the MDG tool to support evolving business needs seamlessly.
   

2. 2. Data Quality Hygiene (Data Sanity)

   Business Partnership Pushback: Actively challenge business stakeholders on requests for new data creation (e.g., unnecessary Profit Centers, duplicate Vendor/Customer records, or redundant Material Codes) to prevent data bloat.

   Cross-Functional Alignment: Play a critical role in ensuring financial structures align perfectly with operational data. Guarantee accurate mapping of Material Codes and Sales Groups to the correct Profit Centers and financial dimensions to ensure flawless downstream profitability reporting.

   Audits Root Cause Analysis: Establish data quality KPIs and conduct regular data audits. Lead proactive data cleansing initiatives and execute root-cause analyses for recurring data anomalies across the P2P (Procure-to-Pay), O2C (Order-to-Cash), and R2R (Record-to-Report) value chains.
   

3. 3. System Implementation Enhancements

   Technical Translation: Collaborate closely with IT and business stakeholders to translate complex financial and FPA requirements into technical MDG solutions spanning finance, material, and business partner domains.

   Project Leadership: Lead workshops, map future-state data architectures, and support the testing and deployment of system enhancements.

   Automation Transformation: Continuously evaluate the MDG landscape to outline and champion areas for workflow automation and process transformation.

   User Empowerment: Develop training materials and conduct workshops to educate end-users on new processes, governance standards, and system enhancements.
   

4. 4. Reporting Stakeholder Management

   Documentation: Maintain comprehensive, up-to-date documentation regarding data standards, workflow rules, process flows, and system configurations for all data objects.

   Subject Matter Expertise: Act as the primary SME for enterprise MDG, guiding end-users, managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and resolving master data-related escalations effectively.

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