Vendor Master Data Analyst at Anglo American

Job Description:

The Vendor Master Data Analyst ensures effective service delivery to the Business Units against pre-defined criteria generally referred to as Key Performance Indicators as defined in Service Level Agreements with various Business Units.

More of your duties will include:

• Verify and approve all new requests/changes to the agreed business processes and policies whilst maintaining high levels of understanding, quality and accuracy
•  Apply extensive scrutiny over documentation and raise concern to the team and the supervisor
• Process review and alignment
• Analyses the downstream impacts of all master data changes, including integration points with other data domains and impact to business processes.
•  Provides suggestions to continuously improve master data management processes and standard methodologies to support evolving business requirements
• Assist Supervisor with reporting, planning, escalations, and investigation within the VMD area
•  Able to perform effective root cause analysis and contribute to improving controls and process effectiveness
•  Operate in a cost-effective manner, ensuring accurate checks and validations are completed (e, g ensuring correct banking details are captured) to avoid cost implications)

People & Teams

• Collaboration within the wider Accounting Services and Supply chain to build capacity and relations
• Assist supervisor in attending meetings and key responsibilities and decision when not available

Compliance

• Train master data team on new systems, enhancements and ensures system reliability
• Troubleshoots non-routine requests, proposes solutions, and supports the implementation of solutions.
• Analyses performance measurements and provide input into resolving obstacles to meeting team SLAs
• Participate as Superuser in the design, Implementation and UAT testing of new projects, processes and improvements to the systems that impacts master data
• Leading mini projects within the VMD department
• Work within policies, processes and systems and advise your leader of any issues which impede your, or the team’s performance

This role is at a Band 7 level reporting to VMD Supervisor

Qualifications:

• BCom Degree /National Diploma in Accounting
• SAP training

Experience required:

• 3- 4 years’ experience:
• SAP S4Hana / SAP MDM (Master Data Management)
• Intermediate /Advanced Excel
• Winshuttle (Tool to upload bulk data)
• Data Analysis Skills