AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands! Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, that allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development.
An exciting opportunity exists for a SENIOR MASTER DATA ADMINISTRATOR at AVI LIMITED Financial Shared Services in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The purpose of the role is to oversee and maintain master data-related information in terms of vendor master, customer master, and material master. Enforcing the relevant database standards and ensuring high data integrity.
Line Manager: Master Data Team Leader
Number of Direct Reports: None
Key Performance Areas:
- Master Data Management (Materials, Vendors and Customers)
- Accurate and ongoing creation and maintenance of Material Master (Finished Goods, Raw, Wrap, Traded, and Engineering), Vendor Master, and Customer Master data in SAP by the prescribed convention and internal procedures.
- To provide monthly diagnostic reporting on Material Master, Vendor Master, and Customer Master.
- Advise and train users on the policies and procedures of Master data to ensure and facilitate compliance.
- Accurate maintenance and management of the master data workflow process.
- Assist with any ad hoc tasks, initiatives, or projects related to the management and improvement of master data.
- Staying abreast of master data as a whole.
- New effective measures to streamline processes and assist business units.
- Ensure consistent accuracy of information by conducting monthly data integrity checks, based on risk areas, statutory compliance, coding convention, and company policy.
- Achieve agreed customer service levels (MOU) consistently.
- Project Involvement
- Play a key role in collecting, coordinating, and cleaning all master data for any new acquisitions and onboarding of new customers/vendors/materials.
- Preparing the master data upload files for integration onto SAP for the project team, ensuring consistency and accuracy, within the given timeframes and deadlines and by operational expectations.
- Keeping abreast with master data trends and improvement.
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- A minimum of 3 years SAP Master Data (Materials, Vendors and Customers).
- Previous working experience on SAP material, vendor and customer master fields, functionality and data requirements.
- Advanced Excel.
Qualifications:
- Matric/Grade 12.
- A financial qualification would be advantageous.
Additional Requirements:
- It would be advantageous if the successful person had experience or exposure to:
- Advanced MS Excel.
- Power BI.
- Knowledge of company statutory documentation for the onboarding and maintenance of customers and vendors.
- Ensure workflow approvals are completed in the absence of the team leader.
- Required to travel to sites when necessary.
- Overtime will be required when necessary.
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