Gap Inc. is looking for a Data Governance Manager - Finance to prioritize business value use cases and enable data-driven insights across the organization. In this role, you will collaborate with business, product, and technology teams to drive data as a product, ensuring consistency and integrity within the finance domain.
What You'll Do
- Articulate, interpret, and apply the principles of the overall data strategy to unique, moderately complex business problems that may span multiple functions.
- Drive workshops independently with the business to understand use cases and facilitate across stakeholders to implement solutions addressing pain-points.
- Lead the implementation of data governance policies and procedures within the finance and controls domain.
- Lead data governance forums for effective oversight and desired outcomes.
- Take ownership of building the financial business metrics library with attribute enrichment and play the role of a 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 adapt data governance processes and procedures.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
- 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 and 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
- Collibra
- Alation
- Essbase
- Anaplan
- Oracle ERP
- Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
Team & Environment
This role is part of the enterprise data governance team.


