Job Description
Title: Data Governance & Controls Consultant
nLocation: Chennai / Hyderabad
nJob Type: Contract
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nJob Summary
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nWe are seeking an experienced Data Governance & Controls Lead to drive data governance, financial data controls, systems integrity, and regulatory readiness as the organization prepares for public-company reporting requirements.
nThe role will assess and strengthen the governance and control environment across financial data, ERP platforms, reporting processes, and critical business metrics. Working closely with Finance, Accounting, IT, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Compliance, this individual will establish the data ownership, lineage, reconciliation, auditability, controls, and evidence frameworks required to support SOX compliance, SEC reporting, internal audit, and scalable public-company operations.
nThe ideal candidate combines solid expertise in data governance and financial systems with practical experience in SOX/internal controls, audit, compliance, and IPO or public-company readiness.
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nKey Responsibilities
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- Assess and document data ownership, data lineage, source-of-truth systems, and data governance processes.n
- Validate financial data reconciliation between source systems, ERP platforms, and the General Ledger.n
- Evaluate month-end and quarter-end financial close processes for accuracy, efficiency, and control effectiveness.n
- Review internal controls, audit trails, user access management, data retention policies, and change management processes.n
- Ensure critical business and financial metrics can be traced back to source data and reproduced when required.n
- Identify control gaps, material weaknesses, and remediation opportunities.n
- Support SOX, SOC 2 Type II, internal audit, regulatory reporting, and compliance initiatives.n
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, IT, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams to establish auditable and scalable processes.n
- Assist with controls docu

📌 Data Governance (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 CTC
📍 Tamil Nadu