Role description
The SAP Vendor Master Data Senior Analyst will support master data initiatives focused on vendor data profiling, cleansing, standardization, validation, and remediation within an SAP ECC environment.
The role is primarily execution-focused and involves hands-on analysis and manipulation of vendor master data, identification and resolution of data quality issues, and collaboration with Finance, Procurement, and other business teams to ensure vendor records meet established data standards and requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Extract and analyze vendor master data from SAP ECC using standard reports, queries, and data extraction tools.
- Analyze large datasets to identify:
- Duplicate vendor records
- Inactive or obsolete vendor accounts
- Inconsistent or incorrectly formatted data
- Missing or incomplete vendor information
- Identify vendor records with missing or invalid financial and compliance information, including:
- Tax identification details
- Bank account information
- IBAN
- SWIFT/BIC codes
- Payment terms
- Document data quality issues and support root-cause analysis.
- Execute vendor master data correction, cleansing, enrichment, and standardization activities based on approved business rules.
- Perform mass data updates using approved SAP tools and data upload mechanisms.
- Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, and regional business teams to obtain missing or updated vendor information.
- Validate supporting vendor documentation where required.
- Standardize vendor payment terms and other master data attributes in accordance with established global standards.
- Ensure all data changes are accurately documented and traceable.
- Support preparation and validation of vendor master data files for mock conversion and migration activities.
- Assist with data transformation and mapping activities as required.
- Perform post-load validation to ensure vendor master data has been migrated accurately into the target environment.
- Identify and report migration errors or discrepancies.
- Document data issues, resolution steps, validation results, and cleansing progress.
- Support project status reporting and data quality metrics.
- Work with SAP vendor master data within SAP ECC.
- Analyze and maintain vendor master data across relevant organizational levels.
- Support vendor master data activities associated with Finance and Procurement processes.
- Ensure vendor data complies with established business rules, governance standards, and data quality requirements.
- Collaborate with functional and technical teams to resolve SAP master data issues.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience working with SAP Vendor Master Data, Accounts Payable, or SAP FI-AP processes.
- Strong understanding of SAP Vendor Master Data concepts and processes.
- Hands-on experience with SAP ECC.
- Knowledge of relevant SAP vendor master data structures and tables.
- Working knowledge of SAP transaction codes used for vendor master data management and analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including:
- VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP
- Pivot Tables
- Text manipulation formulas
- Data validation and reconciliation
- Large dataset analysis
- Familiarity with financial master data elements such as:
- Payment Terms
- Tax Information
- Banking Details
- Vendor Account Information
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy when working with financial and vendor master data.
- Ability to work effectively with Finance, Procurement, and cross-functional business teams.
Preferred / Core Competencies
- Strong understanding of SAP FI (Financial Accounting).
- Working knowledge of SAP MM (Materials Management).
- Understanding of the relationship between vendor master data and Finance/Procurement processes.
- Familiarity with relevant SAP vendor master data transactions and reporting tools.
- Strong experience in vendor master data cleansing and remediation.
- Ability to identify duplicates, inconsistencies, missing information, and data quality issues.
- Understanding of master data governance and data quality principles.
- Experience handling large datasets and performing data reconciliation.
- Experience supporting SAP data migration and conversion activities.
- Knowledge of data transformation, mapping, validation, and reconciliation processes.
- Familiarity with tools such as LSMW or SAP migration/conversion tools is preferred.
- Ability to ensure data integrity throughout migration activities.
- Understanding of how vendor master data flows between SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Ability to identify potential data inconsistencies across integrated systems.
- Experience collaborating with functional and technical teams on master data integration issues.
Key Skills
SAP ECC | Vendor Master Data | SAP FI | SAP MM | FI-AP | Data Cleansing | Data Profiling | Data Validation | Data Migration | Data Quality | Master Data Governance | Microsoft Excel | LSMW | Vendor Data Analysis | Financial Master Data
Success Measures
The successful candidate will:
- Improve the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of vendor master data.
- Identify and remediate duplicate, inactive, and erroneous vendor records.
- Ensure vendor master data complies with established global data standards.
- Support accurate and successful vendor data migration and conversion activities.
- Deliver timely and accurate data analysis and validation.
- Maintain strong data quality throughout the cleansing and remediation process.
- Effectively collaborate with Finance, Procurement, and other business stakeholders.
Skills
SAP FI, SAP ECC, SAP, SAP MM, SAP S/4HANA, Master Data Management, Data Validation, ETL, Microsoft Excel, Accounts Payable, LSMW
About UST
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