Data Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Data Specialist to join a leading organisation with a strong and established presence across the African continent for over five decades. The successful candidate will play a critical role in supporting large scale transformation and migration initiatives, ensuring that all data provided to project teams is accurate, complete, and fully compliant with defined data standards, rules, and structures prior to cut over. This position is based in South Africa.

• Populate and maintain data migration files for the Project.
• Proactively identify data issues across project streams, ensuring that migration data is aligned to project's requirements before mock migration or cut over.
• Monitor closure of required clean-up tasks.
• Support reconciliation of business datasets to ensure they are clean, accurate, and ready for migration.
• Support Key Users throughout the preparation and cleansing process by validating that data in internal submission templates aligns with project mapping rules, transformation logic, and cleansing requirements.
• Review populated templates for completeness, accuracy, and logical correctness before submission.
• Ensure data mapping between dependent data sets is consistent (e.g. AP vendor exists on the Vendor Master).
• Assist in the transformation of business data to submission format for migration.
• Identify discrepancies and log issues for remediation.
• After data loads, assist the business with verification activities by preparing comparison views between source, transformed, and loaded data.

• Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, information systems, statistics, or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in data quality, data migration, or master data roles.
• Power Query / Data Queries.
• Pivoting, merging, unpivoting datasets.
• Advanced formulas (LOOKUP functions, TEXT formulas, logic rules, LET, etc.)
• Excellent communication and ability to clearly articulate required corrections to business stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Finance, SCM, Engineering, Document Management).
• Experience with structured databases and ERP systems, especially in large-scale transformation or migration projects.

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