Senior Finance Data Governance Consultant

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

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 Play Station 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 Play Station brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

* 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/4

HANA, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Map data from source systems through integration, transformation, consolidation, reporting, and analytical consumption.
• Document business rules, transformation logic, mappings, allocations, eliminations, adjustments, currency translation, and reconciliation points.
• Identify manual transformations, uncontrolled spreadsheets, duplicated logic, missing ownership, and lineage gaps, and support impact assessments for upstream changes.
• Partner with technical teams to distinguish business lineage from physical and technical lineage.

• Define practical Finance data quality standards, rules, thresholds, monitoring requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Build a data quality rule inventory and support issue…