GRADUATE (MASTER DATA CONTROLLER) (GREYTOWN) at Plennegy Group

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Master Data Creation (New): Undertake internal Service Level Agreements (SLA) between the various business units, as data owners, and the stewardship services rendered. Action, within the allocated turnaround time, each request for new master data. Adherence to all business rules around data normalization and authorization levels.
• Master Data Maintenance (Ongoing): Assist with various mass data cleansing projects that would involve correcting inaccurate data, retrieving new data, filling missing data, merging duplicates, and building account hierarchy relationships or Enterprise Relational Diagrams (ERD). Follow the strategy and assist with the backlog and end-user support for the application platforms for data governance, data quality monitoring, and master data management capabilities. Adhere to the protection of personal information (POPI) act related to the collection, storage, usage, and destruction of data subject information. Share data only with authorized staff and capture who the data is shared with, the date shared, and for what purpose. Adhere that lessons learned are shared with management so that they can be documented and embedded into subsequent planning cycles and activities. Assist Business Analysts and IT staff in requirements gathering and reviews.
• Master Data Retirement (Dormant): Assist with report generation for data owners/custodians to effectively manage existing retention rules and retention criteria (deletion of redundant data). Undertake data cleaning projects to rid the system of old, unused data, or duplicate data.
•  User Training and Data Awareness: Follow a “Centre of Excellence” approach to user training, data assistance, best practice guide, usage upskill, and knowledge sharing with users. Assist with end-user reporting using either BI dashboard, various in-house reports, ERPs, or any other data platform. Assist business users on a digital data transformation journey. Encourage data literacy by ensuring data users fully understand and appreciate data and its functions before use. Business user empowerment leads to the discovery and writing metadata into a centralized and easily searchable data catalog or metadata dictionary, as part of knowledge sharing.
• General: Undertake all master data Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in accordance with good governance policies and practices. Update as and when needed, ensuring to keep business units informed of such changes.

Requirements
REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (Matric) National Senior Certificate (Essential)
• Bachelor of Commerce in Finance Diploma

Training:

• Min: ERPs / Business writing
• Ideal: DAMA / SQL

Skills:

• Communication Skills
• On the job training
• Computer Skills

Experience:

•  Finance operations or data capturer