Finance Master Data Manager
£50,000 to £60,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre (Hybrid)

We’re looking for a Finance Master Data Manager to join a brand new team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners everyday’.  

As a Finance Master Data Manager, as part of our CBS Data Services leadership team, you’ll lead a team of specialists to develop and implement finance master data governance, policies, and standards. We’ll look to you to make sure our data is accurate, consistent, and compliant with regulations and industry best practice. This is an exciting time to join us, as we look to transform our finance systems and implement SAP S4 HANA. You’ll be our inhouse expert, with experience of maintaining and managing finance master data in SAP, supporting us in making sure our new system is capturing the right data.

What you’ll do

• Monitor and continuously improve the quality of master data through data profiling, data cleansing, and data validation processes
• Manage the creation, changing, and closing of finance master data across multiple finance systems
• Define and control data standards for naming conventions, data formats, and data quality to maintain consistency across systems and departments
• Assign data ownership responsibilities to relevant business units or data specialists
• Create and maintain master data governance documentation, including standard operating procedures, load templates, RACI, and change requests related to master data
• Lead a team of Finance Master Data Specialists, making sure data updates are made accurately and on-time
• Implement and apply data security measures to protect sensitive master data from unauthorised access or breaches
• Support data migration teams in making sure finance master data is accurately transformed and transferred between systems during system upgrades or migrations

This role would suit people who have

• Experience of maintaining and managing finance master data in SAP
• Experience with change control and management
• Strong understanding of SAP Business Partner
• Line management experience
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Good Microsoft Excel skills

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build more value for our member-owners every day. 
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion here

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.

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