Lead Finance Data Analyst

Join our team as a Lead Finance Data Analyst, where you will play a crucial role in the analysis, governance, validation, and integration of finance data used across accounting, reporting, and finance systems. You will partner with various teams to define trusted data standards, strengthen SOX-relevant controls, resolve data quality issues, and support changes to financial systems and interfaces. This role combines hands-on data analysis with process and control leadership to ensure finance data is accurate, complete, timely, traceable, and fit for downstream use.

• Lead the analysis, governance, validation, and integration of finance data used across accounting, reporting, and finance systems.
• Establish and maintain finance data definitions, ownership, lineage, critical data elements, data quality rules, and governance standards across source systems.
• Design and execute validation routines, reconciliations, exception monitoring, root-cause analysis, and remediation plans to improve the accuracy, completeness, cutoff, consistency, and traceability of finance data.

• You have experience with ERP and finance platforms such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Concur, or comparable systems
• You have led or materially supported system change initiatives, including requirements, user acceptance testing, cutover, post-implementation validation, process documentation, and change management
• You have a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field; CPA, CISA, or recognized data governance certifications are a plus
• You possess advanced data validation and reconciliation skills, including SQL-based analysis and structured testing of large financial datasets
• You have experience designing, executing, or supporting SOX controls over financial systems, interfaces, reports, master data, or data changes, and understand control documentation, evidence, and audit testing expectations
• You have experience with system integration and data transformation concepts, including source-to-target mapping, interface controls, file- and API-based integrations, error handling, and downstream reconciliation
• You possess strong analytical judgment and can translate accounting, control, and reporting requirements into scalable data and system requirements
• You have 8+ years of experience in finance data, accounting systems, financial systems analysis, data governance, or related roles, including ownership of complex cross-functional initiatives
• You have a strong understanding of accounting data flows and financial reporting requirements, including how transactions move from operational systems through integrations and subledgers into the general ledger and reporting environments
• You have hands-on experience with finance data governance, including data definitions, ownership, lineage, critical data elements, data quality controls, metadata, and issue remediation