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Data Migration Lead (SAP) - Contract (OUTSIDE IR35)

ERP Platform Integration (SAP) - multiple legacy systems

Project objectives:

* Streamlining financial operations
* Ensuring accurate and consistent data management for informed decision-making
* Enabling real-time reporting and analytics for comprehensive financial oversight
* Supporting scalability to accommodate future acquisitions
* Enhancing compliance and internal control measures across all entities

This Data Migration Lead position is responsible for scoping, documenting and performing the data migration process for integrating acquired entities onto a single ERP platform. This hands-on role is integral to ensuring a seamless transition, focusing on data mapping, transformation, and validation.

Key areas of focus include managing the legacy data migration process, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize migration workflows. The Data Migration Lead will actively engage in addressing data-related challenges, providing practical solutions to ensure alignment with organizational goals and contributing to the successful integration of financial operations.

Role responsibilities:

Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of data migration projects for the SAP solution, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards.
Collaborate closely with Project Managers to communicate any potential resource constraints related to data migration across projects.
Conduct and facilitate data migration meetings, ensuring that tasks are completed effectively by all stakeholders.
Provide weekly highlight reports for each migration project to internal key stakeholders, detailing progress and any issues encountered.
Work with cross-functional teams, including IT, finance, and external vendors, to gather requirements and define data migration strategies.
Conduct thorough data analysis to identify quality issues, anomalies, and inconsistencies, developing strategies to address them proactively.
Design and implement data mapping, transformation, and validation processes to ensure accurate and complete migration of financial data to the new ERP system.
Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including migration plans, data mapping specifications, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Perform rigorous testing and validation of migrated data to ensure integrity, reliability, and compliance with organizational standards.
Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop business and functional requirements, ensuring accurate scoping for programming.
Proactively identify, manage, or escalate risks and issues, researching and developing options for remediation or mitigation.
Engage with teams from acquired businesses and lead workshops to ensure alignment on requirements and specifications throughout the migration process.Experience needed:

Experience advising clients on data strategy elements related to their SAP roadmaps and supporting the implementation of associated data migration solutions.
At least 4 years of functional data management experience across full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles, from data strategy definition to cutover.
Proven ability to advise and support clients with data quality challenges, collaborating to define corrective actions and deliver data quality monitoring solutions.
Strong understanding of data management and migration strategies and methodologies.
Experience with SAP data tools (e.g., SAP Data Services, SAP SDI, SAP Migration Cockpit, Information Steward).Please apply asap if interested - GleeIT

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