Senior Global Finance Data Governance Analyst

Overview

Position Title

Senior Global Finance Data Governance Analyst

Function/Group

Finance

Location

Mumbai- Powai

Shift Timing

1.30pm – 10.30pm IST

Role Reports to

Sr Finance Manager

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance India and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

Job Overview

The Financial Systems Integration (FSI) team oversees our core financial systems (SAP, BW, OneStream), providing leadership on our month-end close and consolidation process and guiding the business and other key stakeholders on our financial systems, data and transactional processes.

As global data governance analyst, you will play a lead role in the full lifecycle of data elements that are core to financial processes and reporting (hierarchies, master data, transactional data structure and more). You will not only assist in the creation and maintenance of data, but also in the formation and execution of data-related policies, procedures and tools. You will partner with global process owners, key finance stakeholders and cross functional partners to ensure all data quality requirements are met and to continuously improve governance processes, with a strong focus on AI/automation. Critical success factors include the ability to effectively collaborate with a variety of partners, a continuous improvement mindset and an unwavering commitment to maintaining data integrity and reliability.

In this role, you will get exposure to the following experiences: own a significant functional process, govern and execute control activities, and provide leadership to global and cross-functional stakeholders. It will also allow you to develop & apply numerous capabilities including financial acumen, process excellence and governance expertise.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for maintaining integrity of our core enterprise and financial data elements
• Serve as subject matter expert for key transformation projects and business enablement initiatives as needed
• Establish and sustain data quality standards that achieve all regulatory requirements and critical business needs
• Be a leader in identifying data maturity opportunities, monitoring data quality and continuously improving processes
• Create and maintain thorough documentation of governance processes
• Establish, sustain, and support relevant controls, including, but not limited to security access
• Lead global education & training efforts across multiple stakeholder groups to influence effective and optimal use of data
  
  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of previous applicable experience
• Deep expertise of GMI financial systems and processes (or similar external experience)
• Technical aptitude for process, data, systems
• Strong technical and business partner communication skills
• Process oriented with focus on consistency and integrity and strong attention to detail
• Learning mindset, with a desire to continuously improve
  
  

• Experience with continuous improvement approaches
• Experience with SAP COPA (Profitability Analysis module)
  
  

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.