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Data Scientist

New York, NY 10112

Posted: 09/28/2026 Employment Type: Contract Job Number: 29379178 Pay Rate: 62.12-100.95 USD/Hour

Job Description

Pay range 95-100/hr W2
12 months contract
Hybrid onsite NYC

Role Purpose
The Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis team is responsible for planning and estimate cycles, internal reporting, financial analysis, and preparation of materials for senior management, Investor Relations, and other key stakeholders. The team is also driving the transformation of enterprise FP&A by leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud and other modern data and analytics capabilities to improve planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making.
As the Director, FP&A Data Lead, you will be responsible for executing the data strategy for the finance organization, shaping the roadmap for governed, high-quality finance AI ready data products that support scalable planning, reporting, analytics, and automation capabilities. This role partners across Finance, Technology and Governance to enable the broader finance transformation roadmap.
The ideal candidate can bridge finance and technology, translating business needs into scalable data solutions while engaging in topics such as data modeling, hierarchies, semantic layers, data quality, metadata, and governance. As part of an emerging function, this high-impact role will help shape how finance data products are defined, managed, and scaled across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
•Lead the data strategy and roadmap in alignment with enterprise finance transformation priorities, including planning modernization, reporting standardization, executive decision support and AI capabilities.
•Partner across Finance and Technology to translate business needs into scalable data solutions, working closely with FP&A, controllership, accounting, treasury, tax, business unit finance, data engineering, architecture, analytics, and data governance teams.
•Design and govern reusable finance data products, models, and semantic layers that standardize key metrics, reporting hierarchies, reporting logic, and financial concepts across SAC, Datasphere, dashboards, planning tools, and downstream analytics.
•Drive delivery of data products by translating requirements into technical specifications, prioritizing backlogs, supporting agile execution, enabling users through training and documentation, and measuring success through data quality, and business impact KPIs.
•Establish and enforce data quality, governance, and control standards including validation rules, reconciliation routines, certification tiers, metadata management, lineage, documentation and access controls.
•Champion standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across finance data and reporting processes, while staying current on emerging capabilities in finance transformation.

Qualifications
Basic Requirements
•BS/BA degree required in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field.
•5–10 years of experience, preferably with a strong focus in finance.

Desired Characteristics
•Strong understanding of finance processes, including planning, analytics, management reporting and financial hierarchies.
•Experience with finance data transformation in a large media, entertainment, technology, consumer products, or multi-business-unit organization.
•Familiarity with modern data platforms, data catalog and data semantics tools.
•Experience with SAP EPM or similar planning and business intelligence platforms.
•Ability to bridge business and technology teams and drive alignment across stakeholders
•Product mindset with experience defining roadmaps, prioritizing use cases, managing backlogs, and measuring adoption and business impact.

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Drew Anson

Chief Delivery Officer

Drew Anson is Chief Delivery Officer at Phaxis, a Workforce Solutions Company based in New York.

In this role, Drew leads the delivery and recruiting working closely with the leadership team to define a model that is efficient at supporting the firm s current needs and is scalable for future growth.

Drew is a seasoned executive with more than 13 years of Services & Recruitment experience. In that time, he has supported numerous Fortune 100/500/1000 organizations across industries by providing global workforce solutions, namely resources and thought leadership for large-scale projects, implementations, and managed services.

Prior to joining Phaxis predecessor firm Park Hudson in 2021, Drew spent three years at engineering technology and talent solutions firm, Collabera, as Director of Sales in North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly eight years at Insight Global, most recently as Sales Manager of the Columbus, OH office.

He holds a degree from Central Michigan University in Sales & Marketing.

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