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The HR Solutions Global Data Governance Leader is a strategic and operational leader responsible for advancing data governance, controls, data quality, and HR data architecture across HR Solutions. This role leads a team responsible for complex operational support, governance activities, audit support, reporting, and cross-functional HR initiatives.
This leader will own the governance framework for HR data, including data quality, standards, controls/audits, and architectural alignment across HR processes and systems. The role partners closely with the HR Global Technology Operations Leader and Reporting Leader to ensure HR data architecture is designed and implemented effectively and collaborates across all areas of HR to deliver business value, strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and improve operational effectiveness.
In addition to enterprise HR data governance responsibilities, this leader will oversee a team supporting critical complex operational processes and projects such as EIB support, severance administration, reorganizations, M&A integration, audit response, reporting, and root cause analysis. This role requires strong people leadership, cross-functional influence, process rigor, and the ability to connect strategy, data, technology, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Team Management
Lead, coach, and develop direct reports responsible for critical complex HR operational and governance processes.
Provide leadership and oversight for team deliverables across complex projects, data governance, audit support, reporting, process rigor and issue resolution.
Establish clear goals, priorities, service expectations, and development plans for the team.
Build team capability in governance, controls, data quality, problem-solving, and operational excellence.
HR Data Governance, Quality, and Architecture
Lead the HR data governance strategy and operating model across HR Solutions.
Establish and sustain standards for HR data quality, governance, controls, ownership, stewardship, and lifecycle management.
Define and monitor governance processes that improve data accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability across HR systems and reporting.
Partner with the HR Global Technology Operations Leader and Reporting Leader to align HR data governance requirements with system design and architecture implementation.
Help ensure HR data architecture supports business processes, reporting needs, compliance requirements, and enterprise scalability.
Drive accountability for critical HR data elements, definitions, standards, and ownership across HR functions.
Develop governance routines, metrics, dashboards, and forums to track data health, control effectiveness, and remediation progress.
Controls, Risk, Audit, and Compliance
Partner with the HR PMO to execute any complex cross-HR projects
Establish and strengthen the control environment related to HR data, reporting, and operational processes.
Lead support for internal and external audit activities related to HR operations, HR data, controls, and reporting.
Oversee data audits, governance reviews, and remediation activities to…