Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Partner I (MDG)

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.

Who can apply

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, or a related field. An MBA, CA, or CPA is highly preferred.
• Experience: [Insert, e.g., 5–7] years of professional experience in master data governance.
• Deep, hands-on experience utilizing SAP MDG, with exposure across multiple domains including SAP MDG-F (Finance), MDG-M (Material), and MDG-BP/C/S (Business Partner/Customer/Supplier).
• Strong foundational understanding of FP&A processes (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis) and how upstream data (materials, vendors, customers) impacts downstream financial reporting.
• Technical Skills:
• Expert proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Master Data frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, data quality management tools, and workflow configurations.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to push back on non-compliant business requests across various departments (Finance, Sales, Procurement).
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly compliant, and matrixed environment.

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