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Finance Data Governance Consultant
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
The Opportunity
As a Finance Data Governance Consultant within Finance Transformation, you will help ensure MassMutual operates from a trusted Single Source of Truth. In this role, you will support governance and oversight of financial data domains by maintaining authoritative data, enforcing data quality standards, and ensuring accurate metadata, lineage, and controls. You will partner closely with senior domain owners, data stewards, technology teams, and business users to strengthen confidence in financial data used for reporting, analysis, and decision‑making.
The Team
The Finance Data Management team enables trusted, high‑quality financial data through strong governance, stewardship, and partnership across Finance and Technology. Our work supports strategic decision‑making, operational excellence, and regulatory confidence.
The Impact
In this role, you will strengthen the integrity of MassMutual’s financial data by ensuring it is accurate, well‑governed, and aligned to Single Source of Truth principles. Your work will reduce operational and reporting risk through proactive data quality monitoring and issue resolution, while increasing trust and accessibility of financial data across Finance, Technology, and business partners. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
Data Governance
- Maintain complete and accurate metadata, lineage, and catalog entries for assigned finance data domains
- Identify and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs), including definitions, transformation logic, lineage, and data quality rules
- Validate daily data loads against governance and quality standards; investigate anomalies and coordinate remediation
- Monitor data quality (completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and resolve issues surfaced by users or operational controls
- Enforce internal control standards related to data governance and data quality monitoring
Operational Support for Data Quality & Stewardship
- Act as first line of defense for production data issues by confirming validity, diagnosing root causes, and coordinating fixes
- Provide regular updates to data owners and stewards on domain health, open issues, and quality trends
- Support onboarding of new data into governed finance schemas, ensuring quality checks, metadata, lineage, and ownership are established
- Partner with technology teams to improve data processes by reducing manual effort, increasing automation, and strengthening controls
Catalog, Lineage & Metadata Maintenance
- Maintain accurate catalog content including business definitions, quality rules, ownership, and stewardship relationships
- Document and maintain transformation rules, validation logic, and reconciliation controls to support transparency and auditability
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, High School Diploma and 7+ years of professional experience
- 3+ years of experience in financial data management or related roles
- 3+ years identifying, monitoring, and remediating data quality issues, including daily data load validation and CDEs
Ideal Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in financial data management, financial shared services, reporting, or regulatory environments
- Demonstrated experience with data governance activities, including stewardship engagement, catalog maintenance, and data quality documentation
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to identify root causes
- Strong communication, relationship-building and organizational skills with the ability to partner across Finance, Technology, and Data Management
- Experience with tools such as SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Collibra, SAP, or Anaplan
- Proven ability to work with enterprise data teams to onboard data, improve quality, and support governed finance processes
- Experience supporting Corporate Finance functions (e.g., general ledger, sub‑ledgers, planning, reporting, treasury data)
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with the Finance Data Management
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment. The job description includes the main duties of this position, which may evolve over time. You may be required to perform other duties not listed.
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Salary Range: $102,500-$134,500
Hiring Process
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By the numbers*
- 85% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say the work they do at MassMutual is meaningful - 85% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things
*Source: 2025 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
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