Offers “Gsk”

Expires soon Gsk

Operational Data Subject Matter Expert

  • Brentford (Greater London)
  • IT development

Job description

Details:
GSK is a science-led global healthcare company. We research and develop a broad range of innovative products in three primary areas of Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare. We have a significant global presence with commercial operations in more than 160 markets and a network of 84 manufacturing sites in 36 countries. Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, live longer.

Job Purpose

• To sustain and improve the health and quality of the Centre of Excellence's (CoE's) master data objects in the company's ERP systems by providing effective data standards and data management processes
• To monitor the data quality and service performance achieved using the standards and processes, using the results:
o To deliver exception management, and continuous improvement, to manage and reduce data quality issues and risks, in order to sustain and improve the quality of data
o To ensure that service issues and risks are managed and reduced, in order to sustain and improve the optimum service delivery
• To provide expert advice and explanation for the Data standards and Data management processes where they impact data migrations and BAU (Business As Usual)
o To communicate with a range of individuals and groups within the company, including migrations and other projects, Local Operating Company (LOC), Global Process Owners (GPO), Core Business Services (CBS), and Offshore Shared Services (OSS)

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the data standards and data processes for master data objects in ERP systems that sustain and improve data quality
o Responsible for ensuring that the data quality monitoring rules in place govern effectively how the data standards are applied for each object, and for identifying additional rules where gaps exist
o Responsible for documenting the data standards and quality rules, and maintaining the data definitions, working within the team and with other EDMO teams as required
o Responsible for identifying and investigating continuous improvement opportunities in the data standards, data quality rules, and data maintenance processes for each master data object in ERP systems, working with other SMEs, LOC and CBS Data Stewards, LOC teams, Communities of Practice, and other Data Management teams as required
o Responsible for analysing diverse business data sources, to further understand master data uses and management, to support the continual review of existing data and processes, and to support the management of shared data
o Responsible for executing master data maintenance processes where appropriate

• Accountable for the delivery of Data Quality Metrics
o Responsible for defining the data quality metrics and target levels for the relevant data objects, working within the EDMO and with business users as appropriate
o Responsible for providing periodic visual metrics to stakeholder groups, including: LOC and CBS Data Stewards, EDMO, Global Process Owners, Operational Data Steering Group, etc.
o Responsible for providing a data verification service for data migrations of master data objects, comparing prepared migration data to the standards and quality rules

• Accountable for ensuring corrective actions to remediate bad or conflicting data are understood and taken by the appropriate data requester or data steward
o Responsible for reporting and explaining required corrective actions to BAU data requesters or stewards
o Responsible for reporting and explaining required corrective actions to data migration analysts and leads
o Responsible for complying with appropriate controls identified by the EDMO management team to ensure data management processes are compliant with regulatory requirements

During the course of your application you will be requested to complete voluntary information which will be used in monitoring the effectiveness of our equality and diversity policies. Your information will be treated as confidential and will not be used in any part of the selection process.
If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application / selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please contact 0808 234 4391. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.

Closing date for applications: 9th July 2017

When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the on-line application to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above.
The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity.

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Desired profile

Basic qualifications:
• Degree in Accounting, Business or related discipline
• Experience of working in a detailed process oriented team, i.e. R2R, P2P, O2C, etc.
• Experience with SAP modules e.g. FICO, MM, SD, etc.
• Familiarity with SAP data tables and fields in area of subject-matter expertise
• Good written English, presentation and reporting writing skills
• An ability to confidently communicate across many levels of the organisation

Preferred qualifications:
n/a

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