Finance Data Analyst – Data Management

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, Tableau, MicroStrategy

Job Description

The opportunity

As the Finance Data Domain Owner, you will have significant interaction and partnership with the finance data owners and other MassMutual data leaders. You will play a key role in driving culture change to enable data access, self-service, and usage across Corporate Finance to allow users to become fluent in using data with best practices. You will partner with the technology team to leverage emerging enterprise technology capabilities in data enablement and consumption; deliver efficient and optimized financial data related processes; execute a strong governance oversight. As the Finance Data Domain Owner, you will report to the Director of Finance Data Operations.

The Team

The Finance Data Management team, within Controller’s group, manages financial data domains used by MassMutual and supports significant financial applications. The team takes a lead in three areas including data innovation & efficiency, data governance, and partnership with business and technology. The team supports a broad set of financial applications including general ledger, sub-ledgers, planning, reporting and treasury tools. Our vision is be the expert data management function to champion and democratize optimized financial data, in turn enabling self-service across Corporate Finance to be a best-in-class strategic finance team.

The Impact

We are looking for a data management professional who can deliver business value by supporting financial data enablement, governance, and consumption. The key responsibilities:

• Acts as Data Steward for assigned Finance Data Domain
• Works with the Data Owner to identify critical data elements, establish data quality rules, and document their metadata and lineage
• Governs the data life cycle of data domains from inception to production in data lake
• Documents and oversees Data Quality controls and processes
• Utilizes advanced level understanding of data management principles to clean and organize raw data, develop sourcing and data delivery requirements, and/or curate data sets for business use
• Completes data analysis and contributes to efforts to determine how data is sourced and managed across business areas
• Works cross functionally to define data requirements, review test cases, and process change requests
• Identify and develop requirements to reduce manual data loads into data lake
• Performs data governance in compliance with enterprise data governance policy and standards
• Facilitates remediation of finance data management-related issues
• Maintains MassMutual internal control standards
• Opportunities to leverage knowledge of analytics and reporting software such as SQL, Microstrategy, Tableau, and others to perform analysis and data visualization

The Minimum QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of work experience in the financial data management role or a bachelor’s degree in data science/engineering, statistics, finance, accounting.
• Experience in financial data for financial shared services, financial reporting or regulatory reporting
• Experience in data governance
• Innate desire to provide excellent service to clients
• Demonstrated skills of business analysis and data management
• Organized and detail-oriented; multi-task various responsibilities
• Ability to think critically and demonstrate good judgment
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple deliverables

The Ideal QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of work experience in the financial data management role
• Experience in data domain management of financial data for financial shared services, financial reporting or regulatory reporting
• Experience in data governance
• Experience collaborating with business leaders
• Experience in a Corporate Finance function
• Experience with life insurance, annuities, DI. data domain owner i.e. Capital, Invested Assets, expenses, flows and insurance
• Experience in working for finance data oversight
• Excellent relationship building, influencing and communication skills
• Ability to think critically and demonstrate good judgment
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple deliverables
• MBA, DAMA certified (CDMP)

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the finance data management Team
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Access to mentorship opportunities
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits