Enterprise Finance Master Data Steward
Elanco
June 25, 2026
Remote friendly (Indianapolis, IN)
United States
Corporate Functions
Your Role:
As an Enterprise Finance Master Data Steward at Elanco, you will champion Finance master data quality, integrity, and usability. You will partner with business stakeholders and IT to implement and uphold data governance policies and standards.
Responsibilities:
- Data Domain Ownership: Primary owner/SME for finance master data; ensure quality and governance.
- Define and Document: Define/document critical data elements, business rules, and data standards in the enterprise data catalog.
- Manage Data Quality: Monitor data quality; set quality rules/metrics; lead root-cause analysis.
- Govern Data Access: Review/approve domain access requests in line with governance and security standards.
- Drive Issue Resolution: Triage/manage data issues with producers/consumers to ensure remediation.
- Data Lifecycle Management: Oversee lifecycle from creation/acquisition through usage, archival, and disposal; ensure retention/regulatory compliance.
- Champion Data Literacy: Promote proper use/understanding of data and data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate with Governance Bodies: Provide input to Data Council and Data Governance Committee.
- Serve the business: Translate business requirements into data model and integration specifications; identify data/architecture improvements.
- Measure Impact & Success: Define/track KPIs for data quality and architectural improvements.
- Champion Best Practices: Recommend innovations in data management and architecture.
What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems/Data/Process (preferred).
- 8+ years’ experience in a relevant business function (e.g., Finance, R&D, Manufacturing, Commercial, Supply Chain).
- Strong data governance knowledge (quality, metadata, stewardship).
- Experience with data catalog tools (e.g., Collibra) and data quality software.
- Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills; strong root-cause capability.
- Exceptional communication/interpersonal skills; influence stakeholders across business/IT.
- High attention to detail.
- Process improvement experience; ability to think systematically about data flows.
- Foundational understanding of data architecture (data modeling, integration patterns, data platforms).
- Ability to resolve/escalate complex data issues to governance/IT.
Benefits (highlights): Multiple relocation packages; two-week shutdowns (mid-summer/year-end) in addition to PTO; 8-week parental leave; annual bonus; flexible work arrangements; up to 6% 401(k) matching; 9 Employee Resource Groups.
As an Enterprise Finance Master Data Steward at Elanco, you will champion Finance master data quality, integrity, and usability. You will partner with business stakeholders and IT to implement and uphold data governance policies and standards.
Responsibilities:
- Data Domain Ownership: Primary owner/SME for finance master data; ensure quality and governance.
- Define and Document: Define/document critical data elements, business rules, and data standards in the enterprise data catalog.
- Manage Data Quality: Monitor data quality; set quality rules/metrics; lead root-cause analysis.
- Govern Data Access: Review/approve domain access requests in line with governance and security standards.
- Drive Issue Resolution: Triage/manage data issues with producers/consumers to ensure remediation.
- Data Lifecycle Management: Oversee lifecycle from creation/acquisition through usage, archival, and disposal; ensure retention/regulatory compliance.
- Champion Data Literacy: Promote proper use/understanding of data and data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate with Governance Bodies: Provide input to Data Council and Data Governance Committee.
- Serve the business: Translate business requirements into data model and integration specifications; identify data/architecture improvements.
- Measure Impact & Success: Define/track KPIs for data quality and architectural improvements.
- Champion Best Practices: Recommend innovations in data management and architecture.
What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems/Data/Process (preferred).
- 8+ years’ experience in a relevant business function (e.g., Finance, R&D, Manufacturing, Commercial, Supply Chain).
- Strong data governance knowledge (quality, metadata, stewardship).
- Experience with data catalog tools (e.g., Collibra) and data quality software.
- Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills; strong root-cause capability.
- Exceptional communication/interpersonal skills; influence stakeholders across business/IT.
- High attention to detail.
- Process improvement experience; ability to think systematically about data flows.
- Foundational understanding of data architecture (data modeling, integration patterns, data platforms).
- Ability to resolve/escalate complex data issues to governance/IT.
Benefits (highlights): Multiple relocation packages; two-week shutdowns (mid-summer/year-end) in addition to PTO; 8-week parental leave; annual bonus; flexible work arrangements; up to 6% 401(k) matching; 9 Employee Resource Groups.