Job Description
- Create, update, and maintain customer and supplier master data accurately and consistently across approved finance and business applications.
- Review master data creation and modification requests to ensure completeness, accuracy, supporting documentation, and required approvals.
- Validate key data fields including legal names, trade licenses, VAT details, bank details, payment terms, contact information, customer account classifications, supplier categories, and related compliance documentation.
- Perform duplicate checks, inactive account reviews, data cleansing, and exception analysis to improve customer and supplier master data quality across systems.
- Use system reports, Excel, and basic SQL queries where available to extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze master data records and identify gaps, inconsistencies, or unauthorized changes.
- Maintain a structured archive of master data requests, approvals, supporting documents, change logs, and audit trails for audit and management review.
- Monitor master data workflows, follow up on pending approvals, and ensure requests are completed within agreed turnaround times.
- Generate data extracts, exception reports, quality checks, and periodic validation reports to monitor data completeness, duplication, consistency, and compliance gaps.
- Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Sales, Operations, IT, system owners, and relevant data owners to resolve incomplete, incorrect, or inconsistent master data.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, internal controls, data governance standards, segregation of duties, delegation of authority, and audit requirements.
- Contribute to process improvements, standardization, automation initiatives,
and stronger master data governance across customer and vendor data processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
- 4 years of relevant experience in master data management, customer data management, supplier data management, finance operations, ERP data administration, or business application data support.
- Hands-on experience maintaining customer and vendor master data in ERP or business applications.
- Good understanding of customer and supplier master data processes, approval workflows, data governance, documentation requirements, segregation of duties, and internal controls.
- Working knowledge of SQL for basic data extraction, validation, duplicate checks, exception reporting, and reconciliation would be a strong advantage.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including lookups, pivot tables, conditional checks, reconciliations, exception reports, and structured data reviews.
- Exposure to Power BI, workflow tools, data quality tools, MDM tools, automation platforms, or system implementation projects would be an added advantage.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and data quality discipline.
- Valuable analytical, reporting, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work with structured datasets, identify inconsistencies, perform root-cause checks, and recommend corrective actions.
- Practical understanding of ERP master data fields, customer and vendor account structures, approval workflows, change control, and audit trail requirements.
- Ability to follow procedures, maintain complete documentation, and meet processing deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills in English.
📌 Master Data Officer (India)
🏢 Sgs
📍 India