Gap Inc. is hiring a Data Governance Manager, Finance. This role is for a data governance subject matter expert with a strong finance background to join the enterprise data governance team. You will be responsible for prioritizing high-value use cases, enabling data-driven insights, and collaborating across business, product, and technology teams to drive data as a product and ensure consistency and integrity.
What You'll Do
- Articulate, interpret, and apply data strategy principles to complex, cross-functional business problems.
- Independently drive workshops with business stakeholders to understand use cases and facilitate solution implementation.
- Lead the implementation of data governance policies and procedures within the finance and controls domain.
- Lead data governance forums to ensure effective oversight and achieve desired outcomes.
- Take ownership of building the financial business metrics library with attribute enrichment and act as the lead finance data steward.
- Be responsible for data source identification, controls monitoring, data quality frameworks, and metadata management.
- Define and gather business functional data quality rules for core financial metrics.
- Support finance transformation and operational teams in data-centric initiatives, ensuring fast, frictionless access to trusted data.
- Optimize financial hierarchy and lead hierarchy enrichment and attribution initiatives.
- Understand downstream impacts and communicate data changes effectively.
- Influence other teams to adopt data governance processes and procedures.
What We're Looking For
- A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
- A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a data stewardship or data analytics role, preferably in the retail industry.
- Strong understanding of financial data by sub-domains including FP&A, Company Planning, and Corporate Controls.
- Previous hands-on experience in data quality management and data governance tools like Collibra or Alation.
- Knowledge of management reporting tools like Essbase and Anaplan.
- Familiarity with Oracle ERP modules including Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM).
- Leadership presence with the ability to present in front of C-Suite executives.
- Ability to analyze data and extrapolate knowledge to make strong recommendations.
Nice to Have
- A Master's degree or a professional certification (e.g., CPA, CFA) is a plus.
Technical Stack
- Governance: Collibra, Alation
- Reporting: Essbase, Anaplan
- ERP: Oracle ERP, Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
Team & Environment
This role is part of the enterprise data governance team, collaborating closely with business, product management, and technology teams.



