Play a pivotal role in ensuring business data readiness for AstraZeneca's SAP S/4HANA migration.
As Associate Director, S/4HANA Data Transformation - Data Quality & Analysis Finance, you will lead data quality activities and remediation within the Finance domain.
You will collaborate closely with Finance stakeholders and cross-functional teams to cleanse, harmonize, and reconcile financial data, ensuring seamless migration and establishing a sustainable data quality framework for post-deployment success.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- **Data Cleansing and Harmonization**: Define scope and guidelines for SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) data cleansing aligned with data design definitions, standards, and migration relevancy across the Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) domain.
- **Data Reconciliation**: Design, specify, and execute comprehensive data reconciliation reports between SAP ECC (pre-migration) and SAP S/4HANA (post-migration) environments to ensure data migration completeness and accuracy across finance and controlling domains.
- **Data Quality Framework Development**: Define and implement the S/4HANA data quality framework to ensure data remains fit for purpose post-deployment and can continue to be used with confidence.
- **Standards Definition**: Partner with Data Design teams to define data standards through analysis of existing SAP ECC data sets and enhance data quality at source for smooth S/4HANA migration.
- **Cleanse Strategy and Execution**: Scope and implement targeted data cleansing activities for migration readiness; contribute to ECC Cleanse and S/4 Migration strategies and delivery plans.
- **Data Profiling and Analysis**: Define data profiling requirements and provide business interpretation of profiling outputs, including data reconciliation; identify, document, and resolve data quality issues.




- **Interim State Reporting**: Support impact assessments, design, and management of interim state reporting, navigating through the split system landscape of partial S/4HANA and ECC deployment.
- **Issue Management**: Oversee data quality issue management and drive resolution across Finance data objects.
- **Quality Strategy Leadership**: Drive the development and execution of the Finance S/4 Data Quality strategy and roadmap; define data quality requirements, metrics, and processes for measuring and reporting.
- **Sustainable Framework**: Build a sustainable data quality framework for ongoing monitoring and remediation; ensure alignment with S/4 Data Governance framework and embed ongoing data quality measures into business-as-usual processes.
**Key Skills and Experience Required**:
- **SAP Finance Expertise**: Working and implementation experience with SAP ECC Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) modules, including data migration activities and deep knowledge of finance business processes, SAP transactions, and reporting.
- **Data Migration Proficiency**: Experience in SAP data migration processes and tools, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills in data quality management.
- **Data Quality Management**: Functional experience in data quality management, including data quality rules, reporting, issue management, and remediation; knowledge of data quality principles and practices (data profiling, discovery,



root cause analysis, automated DQ solutions).
- **Master Data Knowledge**: Good understanding of Master Data Management and Reference Data Management principles.
- **Requirements Elicitation**: Ability to work with business users to elicit and formally define their requirements; strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- **Project Leadership**: Ability to lead conflicting priorities and manage complex data quality analysis and improvement projects.
- **Global Collaboration**: Ability to lead in diverse, general teams within and across functions; experience with global working and across cultures.
- **Stakeholder Influence**: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives; proven ability to lead and manage negotiations across complex groups to target outcomes.
- **Delivery Focus**: Proven track record of delivery and ability to effectively prioritize to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved.
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
- **SAP Proficiency**: Demonstrable working knowledge of SAP ECC Finance and Controlling modules, transactions, and reporting, with understanding of data integration across SAP architectures.
- **Transformation Leadership**: Proven experience leading complex data quality/data migration initiatives within large-scale transformation programs.
- **Complex Project Management**: Experience managing complex data quality analysis and improvement projects.
- **Global Collaboration**: Experience working in diverse, global teams across functions and cultures.
- **Influence and Negotiation**: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and lead negotiations to achieve target outcomes.
- **Delivery Focus**: Pr

📌 Associate Director, S/4Hana Data Transformation - Data Quality & Analysis - Finance (Guadalajara)
🏢 Astrazeneca
📍 Guadalajara