Director FP & A Data Lead

PR ACQUIREZ PRIVATE LIMITED; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PR ACQUIREZ PRIVATE LIMITED seeks a seasoned data strategy lead to align finance data initiatives with enterprise transformation. You will partner with FP&A, controllership, and IT to design scalable data products, governance, and semantic layers across planning and analytics platforms.

The role requires bridging business and technology, driving backlog-enabled delivery, and measuring impact through data quality and KPIs. Strong finance domain knowledge is essential.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• 5-10 years of experience, preferably with a strong focus in finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data strategy and roadmap aligned with enterprise finance transformation priorities.
• Partner with FP&A, controllership, accounting, treasury, tax, and data teams to translate needs into scalable data solutions.
• Design and govern reusable finance data products, models, and semantic layers across SAC, Datasphere, dashboards, and planning tools.
• Translate requirements into technical specs, prioritize backlogs, support agile execution, and train users.
• Establish data quality, governance, and control standards including metadata and lineage management.
• Champion standardization and continuous improvement across finance data and reporting processes.

Skills

Data strategy

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder alignment

Finance data products

Data governance

Agile / backlog management

Education

BS/BA in Finance or IS

Tools

SAP EPM

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Lead the data strategy and roadmap in alignment with enterprise finance transformation priorities, including planning modernization, reporting standardization, executive decision support and AI capabilities.
• Partner across Finance and Technology to translate business needs into scalable data solutions, working closely with FP&A, controllership, accounting, treasury, tax, business unit finance, data engineering, architecture, analytics, and data governance teams.
• Design and govern reusable finance data products, models, and semantic layers that standardize key metrics, reporting hierarchies, reporting logic, and financial concepts across SAC, Datasphere, dashboards, planning tools, and downstream analytics.
• Drive delivery of data products by translating requirements into technical specifications, prioritizing backlogs, supporting agile execution, enabling users through training and documentation, and measuring success through data quality, and business impact KPIs.
• Establish and enforce data quality, governance, and control standards including validation rules, reconciliation routines, certification tiers, metadata management, lineage, documentation and access controls.
• Champion standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across finance data and reporting processes, while staying current on emerging capabilities in finance transformation.

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

• BS/BA degree required in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field.
• 5-10 years of experience, preferably with a strong focus in finance.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong understanding of finance processes, including planning, analytics, management reporting and financial hierarchies.
• Experience with finance data transformation in a large media, entertainment, technology, consumer products, or multi-business-unit organization.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms, data catalog and data semantics tools.
• Experience with SAP EPM or similar planning and business intelligence platforms.
• Ability to bridge business and technology teams and drive alignment across stakeholders
• Product mindset with experience defining roadmaps, prioritizing use cases, managing backlogs, and measuring adoption and business impact.