Job Title: Data Specialist
Hiring Organization: International Rescue Committee
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 06/13/2024
The
International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and
development nongovernmental organization.
Job
Overview:
Data
Specialist will design and manage the controls and end to end process for all
master data requirements in Integra including products, vendors, purchase
agreements, employees, and partners. This role has responsibility of ensuring
that master data controls are crafted in such a way as to facilitate efficient
data migration and high volumes of vendor set-up requests from all IRC
locations, while ensuring that only vendors who have met IRC’s detailed
requirements and standards are setup in Integra to allow financial
transactions.
The
Master Data Management team supports 65 Legal Entities with Data needs within
Microsoft D365 which requires a detailed understanding of Master Data concepts
including the data management lifecycle and the technical functionality of
D365.
Major Responsibilities
- As a central
point of contact for Master Data, the Analyst will be playing a meaningful
role by being in direct contact with multiple legal entities addressing
regular requests, answer questions, resolve data issues and provide
analysis.
- Perform master
data additions, changes and deletions in accordance with standard
procedures.
- Accountable to
ensure due diligence has been conducted, required documentation and all
other crucial controls are satisfied in relation to vendor data edits,
additions, and deletion to mitigate risk of non-compliance, fraud,
collusion, and corruption.
- Ensure requests
for master data maintenance are accurately authorized and approved
- Maintains
accurate and up to date price file management in accordance with current
contracts.
- Conducts quality
control activities and recommends and/or implements additions/changes to
Master Data procedures.
- Review key
performance indicators to ensure data accuracy and data management
policies are working.
- Function as the
main point of contact for the day-to-day execution of MDM related tasks
and guide users on master data processes and business rules.
- Responsible for
ensuring that Purchase Order Contracts meets all requirements prior to
issuing to vendors
- Responsible for
the creation and maintenance of Master Data related to Vendors and
products to ensure that data is accurate and of high quality in the
system.
- Monitor Vendors
Global address for duplicates and resolve the errors to keep high standard
of data integrity.
- Responsible for
increased data consistency, both for operational and analytical uses
- Recommend
improvements to the processes, procedures, tools, rules, and metrics to
ensure data integrity of master data domains.
Job
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s
degree with a concentration in Science, Technology or Mathematics (STEM)
or a Business-related Field from a recognized university
- 1 years of
experience as a Data Analyst, preferably in an international Humanitarian
organization with strong process and systems understanding
Demonstrated
Skills and Competencies:
- Proficiency in
English, French or Arabic
- Ability to
identify fraud red flags during the procurement process.
- Ability to
understand and apply instructions or suggest alternate methods to move
projects or requests forward
- Ability to
prioritize work based on importance
- Ability to build
working relationships and bring about collaboration from working teams
- Very solid grasp
of Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Strong
analytical skills
