Master Data Specialist | Data Management Analyst

Crowne Plaza and Staybridge Suites Yas Island Abu Dhabi- Human Resources Deaprtment
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

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  • Identify inaccurate, incomplete, duplicated, inconsistent, or outdated master data.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

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