Master Data Specialist

To enhance the Master Data maintenance and quality controlling capabilities, we are currently looking for a Master Data Specialist to join our Commercial Finance Team of this organization. In this new role, you will help the entire organization, including Sales, Sourcing, Product Development, Marketing, IT and Finance teams on how to manage and use data. So you will become a key person to help us on the journey towards excellence in data governance.

An interesting phase to join, because our Finance & Control activities are in a transition from a decentralized to a centralized department for our European activities. The next few years will mainly focus on further professionalizing of Finance & Control to the next level. This through projects such as implementing new BI tooling and improving existing tooling and interfaces, processes and, not unimportant, a more visible role for F&C within the organization.

Especially the recently set up Commercial Finance team will (inter)act as a business partner towards the commercial stakeholders. You will be working alongside a Sr Pricing Manager and two Commercial Finance Controllers and you report to the Commercial Finance Director, and you will be based in the Leiden area, the Netherlands.

As Master Data Specialist your core activities concentrate on data maintenance and data governance. You collaborate with key stakeholders across organization to understand data needs and requirements. Based on that you develop and maintain master data records, including customer, product, and supplier information.

You also develop efficient data maintenance processes and data governance policies, procedures and supporting documentation to ensure quality, integrity and consistency between various systems and data sources. Furthermore, also belong to your responsibilities:

Data Maintenance:

• Understand system and data structures within the organization;
• Design master data setup for effectiveness and scalability in collaboration with Commercial and IT teams;
• Continuously monitor data quality and implement improvements and best practices;
• Ensure the data basics right set up for BI tool implementation.

Data Governance:

• Assist Data Owners in defining key product and customer attributes and drive their adoption across organization;
• Make sure changes are well documented and communicated;
• Asses data implications of new projects and changes in line with future requirements.