Master Data Management Specialist Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Master Data Management Specialist to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the development, updating and maintenance of departmental procedures, tools, and metrics for the master data team;
- Align data management processes in the business’ value chains and process areas;
- Manage and drive responsibilities to Master Data team, establishing strong relationships with business contacts, and making decisions based on results;
- Provide awareness training and key user support on master data related data structures;
- Support special projects as needed;
- Ensures master data integrity in key systems as well as maintaining the processes to support the data quality;
- Provide and contribute to documentation required for all phases of implementation (build, configuration, support, user guides, etc;
- Be main technical point of contact for GL, Product and Customer Master Data;
- Create and oversee governing policies around GL, Customer and Product master data;
- Automate the above activities where possible;
- Support improvement projects from data perspective;
- Assist delivery teams in migrating and cleansing data into new platforms as part of the cutover plan (data integrity, cleansing, normalization);
- Defines, creates and maintains MDM Models, application configurations;
- Support data strategy iterations with the wider data management team;
- Perform user acceptance testing on defect resolution and enhancements.
Requirements:
- Ability to achieve results and execute multiple simultaneous projects;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Information Systems or other business-related field;
- Experience with at least one enterprise Master Data Management Tool such as Informatica, Talend, or IBM;
- Analytical, process management, and data management;
- Understanding of appropriate business domain models and MDM Scenarios;
- Proven organization and priority setting skills;
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills using available resources, and proactively escalate when additional resources may be required;
- Understanding of modern Master Data Management Concepts and Data Quality approaches, tools, techniques, vendor landscape, and best practices;
- Previous experience in master data processing and ERP systems, preferably NetSuite and SFDC;
- Ability to work effectively in team-based environment with multiple functional groups;
- Certifications with MDM tools a plus.