Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant (Contract)

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Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant (Contract)

*This is a 12 month temporary assignment

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking an experienced, hands-on Finance Data Governance consultant to help establish and operationalize SIE’s Finance Data Governance capability. The role will partner across Finance and Technology to define governance standards, document critical Finance data and lineage, establish data quality controls, govern master data and hierarchies, and support priority Finance data products.

The ideal candidate should have 8+ years of experience in data governance, Finance transformation, or Finance data management, with strong knowledge of financial processes and systems. Experience with SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake, data catalog/governance platforms such as Atlan or Collibra, and enterprise reporting tools is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable working independently in a greenfield environment and translating complex Finance and technical requirements into practical, sustainable governance processes.

Responsibilities

Establish the Finance Data Governance Foundation

• Assess the current maturity of Finance data governance, documentation, ownership, controls, and data management practices.
• Design and implement a practical Finance Data Governance operating model, including roles, decision rights, governance forums, workflows, escalation paths, and operating cadences.
• Create governance standards, procedures, templates, decision logs, issue-management routines, and approval processes that Finance and Technology teams can use in practice.

Build the Finance Data Inventory and Business Glossary

• Identify and inventory priority Finance data domains, systems, tables, reports, interfaces, data products, calculations, mappings, and critical data elements.
• Document business definitions, ownership, stewardship, approved usage, security classification, refresh frequency, and downstream dependencies.
• Resolve conflicting definitions across Accounting, FP&A, management reporting, statutory reporting, and regional Finance teams.
• Prepare metadata for publication in an enterprise data catalog and establish workflows for maintaining, reviewing, approving, and retiring governance documentation.

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• Experience working with Finance data in SOX-controlled or audit-sensitive environments, including data supporting automation and AI; consulting, Finance transformation, or enterprise data advisory experience preferred.

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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$129,600 — $194,400 USD

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