[Hiring] Data Steward – Self-Serve Financials @Careers Mutual Of Omaha

Role Description

Join Mutual of Omaha’s Financial Analytics and Data Strategy Team as a Self-Service Financials Data Steward. This role is the guardian and accelerator of trusted financial data translating financial understanding into durable, well‑governed data movement—so insights are fast, consistent, explainable, and ready for automation, advanced analytics, and AI innovation.

• Protects trust in financial data used in analytics, regulatory reporting, forecasting, and AI.
• Ensures semantic model consistency so humans and machines interpret data correctly.
• Enables faster innovation by making data predictable, reusable, and production‑ready.
• Leads Self-Serve Financials data management (e.g., data rules, quality, standards, controls, procedures, and documentation).

Stewarded semantic models include:

• Core Financials – actual, plan and forecast financial data.
• Group Financials – Group insurance unique and detailed data.
• Expense – detailed department expenses.

Qualifications

• Experience communicating business needs as data requirements and partnering with Finance stakeholders to define priorities and a delivery roadmap.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL/Excel Pivot, relational databases and data warehousing practices, with experience working across data pipelines/models to support data consumers.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining data solutions (e.g., curated data sets, semantic layers) in a governed, self-service consumption environment.
• Experience leading or coordinating analytics/data initiatives end-to-end, including planning, testing/validation, release/implementation, and managing downstream impacts.
• Data governance and quality leadership: hands-on experience with data definitions/metadata, data lineage, data controls, and operational data quality monitoring (rules, issue triage, remediation).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including producing clear documentation/training and presenting to business and/or leadership audiences.
• Able to work remotely with access to a high-speed internet connection and located in the United States or Puerto Rico.
• Ability to travel occasionally (approximately 5–10% annually) to attend Finance and Actuarial events (travel reimbursed).
• You promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, value different ideas and opinions, and listen courageously, remaining curious in all that you do.

Requirements

• Modern BI + semantic modeling expertise (e.g., Power BI/Tabular/DAX or similar), including understanding of governed semantic layers and reusable metrics/KPIs for self-service consumption.
• Cloud data platform experience (e.g., Snowflake or similar), including building/operating scalable pipelines and curated datasets in a production environment.
• Finance data domain depth: experience with core financial concepts and reporting (e.g., GL/ledger, forecasting, management reporting, or regulatory) and translating those into data products.
• Technical leadership/change management: experience serving as a technical lead or mentor, driving cross-team delivery, and enabling adoption through training, documentation, and stakeholder communications.

Benefits

• Estimated Salary: $99,000 - $135,500, plus annual bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company contribution and 6% company match.
• Work-life balance with vacation, personal time and paid holidays.