Junior Data Manager

Master Data Management Associate 

Location: Spalding (Hybrid Working)

Business Area: Finance Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm – however part time and job share applications will be considered.

Salary: Competitive plus pension, life assurance

Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

The Role

We’re proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Master Data Management Associate with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too.

You will be responsible for managing and curating critical master data updates, this role plays a central role in ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability in a fast-paced environment. The role requires following established Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to execute tasks within agreed SLAs and KPIs.

The scope of Master Data team includes creating and maintaining Finance, Customer, Vendor,

Material and Product related data domains

Accountabilities

Master Data Management

• Execute requests for creation, updates, or changes to master data in the appropriate systems
• Ensure that data updates are consistently and accurately undertaken across all relevant systems
• Engage with stakeholders as needed to gather incomplete data and ensure that required fields are entered
• Inform requestor and key stakeholders of request status as appropriate
• Verify and correct master data information prior to syndication when obvious errors are identified
• Create emergency items and follows up, managing any escalations and exceptions
• Plan mass update projects and estimate time to execute
• Execute mass maintenance requests as directed by MDM Manager
• Liaise closely with data end users throughout the organisation as appropriate
• Supports business review processes as appropriate

Query Resolution

• Resolve data discrepancies, anomalies and inconsistencies reported by stakeholders or identified during data quality checks
• Correspond with MDM Manager if further escalation on queries is required

Audit & Internal Control

• Support internal and external audits as required
• Adhere to all documented procedures, internal controls, governance and policy requirements at all times

Communication and Change Management

• Offer support to team members (where necessary), and actively contributes to collaborative and high-performing team culture
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities based on role accountabilities
• Cultivate effective relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Engage with the MDM Manager on MDM-related updates, issues, progress, and challenges

About you

Ideally, you will have previous experience of working within similar Master Data teams but this is not essential, it is more important that you enjoy data entry and have experience in data entry.

Working knowledge of core finance processes would be an advantage - Order-To-Cash (O2C), Procure-To-Pay

(P2P), and Record-To-Report (R2R)

Strong written and verbal communication skills, an excellent service delivery attitude, attention to detail, proficiency of the use of Microsoft Office products and the ability to manage time effectively to meet tight deadlines whilst managing multiple tasks – will all be key.

First time right focus with appropriate attention to detail ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and in line with Bakkavor policy requirements

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Personal accident Insurance
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Employee assistance programme
• A range of voluntary benefits
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Additional life assurance
• Dental & hospital cash plans
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools
• Affordable loans via your salary
• Proud to be and loyal service awards.

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re the biggest name you’ve never heard of. You’ve probably eaten our food. You just didn’t realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for our customers in the UK, US and China. We’re ambitious. We're full of ideas and we're ready for more people to join us who share our passion for quality – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!