Master Data Specialist | Data Management Analyst

We're Hiring: Master Data Specialist | Data Management Analyst

Employment Type: Full-Time

Level: Mid-Level to Senior

We are seeking a detail-oriented Master Data Specialist | Data Management Analyst to maintain high-quality master data, improve data-management processes, and support accurate and consistent business information across the organization. This role combines master data governance, data quality management, analysis, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure critical business data remains accurate, complete, consistent, secure, and fit for operational and analytical use.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain master data across business systems, databases, and enterprise applications.

• Create, update, validate, and maintain master records according to established standards and procedures.

• Manage customer, supplier, product, material, employee, financial, and other relevant master-data domains.

• Review data requests and ensure new or modified records meet defined requirements.

• Perform data validation, cleansing, standardization, enrichment, and deduplication activities.

• Identify inaccurate, incomplete, duplicated, inconsistent, or outdated master data.

• Investigate data-quality issues and coordinate corrective actions with relevant business teams.

• Establish and maintain data-quality rules, validation checks, and monitoring processes.

• Monitor key data-quality metrics and prepare regular reports for stakeholders.

• Analyze master-data structures to identify patterns, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.

• Support data governance initiatives and ensure master-data practices align with organizational standards.

• Maintain data dictionaries, business definitions, metadata, reference data, and documentation.

• Define and document data-management procedures, workflows, controls, and operating standards.

• Collaborate with business users to understand data requirements and resolve data-related issues.

• Work with IT and application teams to support master-data configuration, integration, and system changes.

• Support ERP, CRM, supply-chain, finance, procurement, and other enterprise systems that rely on master data.

• Coordinate master-data creation and maintenance across multiple systems and business units.

• Analyze data dependencies and assess the potential impact of master-data changes.

• Support data migration, system implementation, data consolidation, and transformation projects.

• Perform data mapping and reconciliation between source and target systems.

• Develop reports and dashboards to monitor data quality, completeness, accuracy, and compliance.

• Automate repetitive data-management and validation activities where possible.

• Support root-cause analysis for recurring data-quality problems.

• Recommend process improvements that reduce manual data-entry errors and improve operational efficiency.

• Establish appropriate approval and control processes for sensitive or critical master-data changes.

• Monitor data-management requests and ensure they are completed within agreed service levels.

• Support audits and provide evidence of data controls, approvals, and maintenance activities.

• Train business users on master-data standards, data-entry procedures, and data-quality requirements.

• Maintain appropriate confidentiality and security when handling business and customer information.

• Participate in data-governance meetings and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

• Stay informed about emerging data-management technologies, governance practices, and industry standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Business Analytics, Statistics, Finance, or a related field.

• Proven experience in master data management, data analysis, data quality, data governance, or a related discipline.

• Strong understanding of master-data concepts, data lifecycles, data quality, and data governance.

• Experience managing structured business data across ERP, CRM, or other enterprise systems.

• Familiarity with customer, supplier, product, material, financial, or organizational master-data domains.

• Strong data validation, cleansing, standardization, and reconciliation skills.

• Experience identifying and resolving duplicate, incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccurate data.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with large datasets.

• Knowledge of SQL and database concepts is advantageous.

• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization and reporting tools is beneficial.

• Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or equivalent systems is preferred.

• Understanding of CRM and enterprise application data structures is advantageous.

• Experience with data migration, integration, or system implementation projects is beneficial.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy.

• Ability to investigate complex data issues and determine appropriate corrective actions.

• Strong understanding of data governance principles and data-quality controls.

• Ability to document data definitions, business rules, workflows, and procedures clearly.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with business, IT, Finance, Operations, Procurement, Sales, and Supply Chain teams.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple data requests and projects simultaneously.

• Understanding of data privacy, access controls, confidentiality, and information-security principles.

• Experience with data-quality tools, master-data management platforms, or governance solutions is advantageous.

• Proactive approach to identifying and preventing data-quality issues.

• Relevant certifications in data management, data governance, analytics, or related fields are beneficial.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.

• Opportunity to work with enterprise-scale data and business systems.

• Exposure to master data management, data governance, analytics, and digital transformation.

• Professional development in data management, data quality, governance, and business analytics.

• Opportunities to work with ERP, CRM, and enterprise data platforms.

• Training and support for relevant technical and professional certifications.

• Opportunities to participate in data migration, system implementation, and transformation projects.

• Collaborative environment involving IT, Finance, Operations, Procurement, Sales, and Business teams.

• Recognition for improving data quality, accuracy, and operational efficiency.

• • Career progression toward Senior Master Data Specialist, Data Governance Analyst, Data Quality Manager, Data Management Manager, or Head of Data Management.