Director, Finance Data Strategy – Stewardship
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Define and drive the Finance data strategy, aligned with business priorities and downstream reporting needs
- Oversee the onboarding of new data sources into the Finance data lake, ensuring scalability, traceability, and alignment with enterprise architecture
- Partner with Finance, IT, and product teams to assess new data requirements and convert them into actionable data delivery roadmaps
- Lead the design of enterprise-grade Finance data models and semantic layers to support analytics, regulatory reporting, and operational Finance needs
- Establish and enforce data governance standards, policies, and stewardship processes for Finance data
- Oversee definition and monitoring of data quality rules, issue management, and remediation workflows
- Lead and develop a team in India responsible for data governance, data quality operations, and stewardship activities
- Work closely with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, IT, Audit, and Data Engineering leaders to align on priorities and data needs
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best
- AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best
- We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme
- Commitments to providing an inclusive recruitment process
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data managementdata governanceFinance data strategydata modelsdata lakesdata ingestiondata transformationdata quality rulesdata stewardshipdata architecture
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder managementinfluencingteam developmentcross-functional collaboration