Principal Finance Data Governance & Strategy

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
Mountain View, CASan Diego, CA
Salary
$215,000–$291,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 189 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Finance Data Governance & Strategy

Principal, Finance Data Governance & Strategy serves as a senior individual contributor within the Finance team to own the data foundation for the company's finance transformation. This role involves establishing and scaling governance frameworks, defining quality standards, and building comprehensive data maps and lineage to ensure metrics are traceable to their source. The position focuses on embedding governance into ERP and planning platform migrations while leading emerging capabilities like synthetic data for testing and model training without exposing sensitive information. Key responsibilities include collaborating with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Security teams to ensure SOX-relevant controls and privacy requirements are met. The ideal candidate possesses technical fluency in SQL and modern data warehouse environments such as Snowflake or BigQuery. They will navigate the complexities of a controlled environment to manage data ownership, access controls, and automated lineage tools.

What you'll do

  • Define and operate data definitions, quality standards, stewardship, and access controls across Finance data domains.
  • Establish and maintain a living inventory of Finance data sources, systems, flows, and transformations to ensure traceability.
  • Lead the data governance and reconciliation strategy for Finance's ERP and planning platform migration.
  • Develop and manage the synthetic data strategy for testing, development, and training AI/ML models without exposing sensitive information.
  • Design access controls and sensitive-data handling protocols that comply with SOX and privacy requirements.
  • Represent Finance in enterprise data governance forums to align departmental standards with company-wide policies.
  • Create and own the roadmap for Finance's data capability maturity by evaluating emerging technologies like automated lineage and AI-driven quality.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years in data governance, data strategy, or data architecture, including 2 to 3 years at a principal or strategic level.
  • Demonstrated experience standing up or scaling a data governance and stewardship program.
  • Experience governing data through large legacy-to-cloud platform migrations with a focus on lineage, ownership, and controls.
  • Experience building or owning enterprise data maps, catalogs, and lineage tooling.
  • Strong technical fluency in SQL and modern data warehouse environments like Snowflake or BigQuery.
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Business, or a related field.
  • Advanced degree or relevant certifications (preferred).
  • Experience with synthetic data, Oracle ERP/EPM, or supporting Finance functions in a large enterprise (preferred).

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