Data Quality Analyst

Splunk is growing its Enterprise Data Management team to focus on the delivery of high-quality data to support good business processes and decision-making.

You will join Splunk’s Enterprise Data Management team as a Data Quality Analyst focused on Accounting, Tax & FP&A (Record to Report).

You will use your understanding of practices in data quality measurement & analysis to work with business owners and build a quality framework for the data most critical to Accounting, Tax & FP&A to drive data quality improvement. You’ll partner with the Data Governance & Quality stewards for other Finance domains (Order to Cash & Procure to Pay) and use the quality insights you generate to drive better, data ownership and enforceable data content entry control necessary to improve and assure the quality of data used for critical decision-making. When data quality issues are identified you will be responsible for ensuring good logging, prioritization, and resolution management in the EDM tracking tool. You will lead data quality in Record to Report data working groups, using your quality analytics to identify and raise issues for participating data owners and users to take up and help resolve.

Responsibilities:

You will implement data quality within Splunk through the following:

• Profiling of current system data to support data content standards definition
• Definition, build & deployment of data quality rules using defined content standards, to identify issues within and between systems & processes used to support Record to Report track
• Logging & prioritization of identified data quality issues, using various impact measures
• Driving data issue identification, root cause analysis, resolution planning & execution with business and IT owners
• Working with Business owners to quantify impacts of data quality issues to drive prioritization and remediation work
• Support transformational programs via quality services such as data issue detection, and clean-up necessary to support deployment
• Provide assurance on any data quality services delivered by external consulting services
• Build & maintain a data quality master rule book for corporate analytics/metrics data & manage change control

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Operations, Statistics, Information Technologies, or related field
• 5 years of experience working with or in business operations and reporting processes
• Minimum 2 years of experience in data quality related field
• Ability to engage, communicate & challenge effectively at manager level and above to provide clear, concise explanations of data quality practices & their importance
• Demonstrable experience in executing data quality analysis exercises within complex, federated data, and system architecture
• Experience with automation of data quality cleansing & enrichment services, preferably with SAP Data Services, using both internal and external data sources (E.g., Dun & Bradstreet)
• Experience translating business data needs into technical language and partnering with IT teams to ensure effective QA / UAT of solution delivery.
• Experience working with offshore developer teams to scope, prioritize & manage work delivery pipelines & backlogs
• Prior exposure to finance regulations such as SOX, and data regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI
• Excellent project/work management skills; Able to define and execute against priorities semi-autonomously with domain. Work effectively within an agile environment, using tools like JIRA, ServiceNow & confluence to prioritize, document and deliver data related services.
• Prior experience working in or with finance operations teams & systems, SAP R2R, Revpro, Anaplan, SimpleLegal, Workday is a plus
• Experience working with SAP BODS/Information Steward, Snowflake, Tableau, or similar data management & governance tools
• Experience working with financial systems products such as SAP S/4 Hana, R2R, RevPro, Simplelegal, Anaplan
• We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.