Data Manager

Hours: 37.5hrs per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Hybrid role with 3 days a week in The VHQ, Crawley

Contract: 18 month FTC/Secondment

Closing Date: Sunday, 28 April 2024

In a nutshell

In this exciting role as Data Manager within Working Capital, you'll support the People & Finance team in the successful delivery and implementation of our Oracle (Cloud) ERP programme.

Working alongside the wider Procurement and Working Capital SMEs to meet project deliverables across Source to Pay (S2P), Invoice to Cash (I2C) and Employee Expenses which will primarily include activities relating to data migration, ensuring data is reviewed, cleansed, and enriched to reduce data transfer issues at cutover.

Alongside this you will also provide support during SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure that both system and user tests don't fail due to incomplete or incorrect data.

Sound like the role for you? Then please read on

Day to day

• Work closely with the P&F Data Migration and Finance Systems & Transformation teams to meet project timelines
• Lead and support the data migration activities and actions relating to Working Capital and Procurement
• Review SQL data scripts and outputs to ensure there are no known gaps
• Proactively identify data migration issues and coordinate data cleansing and enrichment requirements ensuring data accuracy/integrity is preserved.
• Working alongside the business area SMEs, standardise and rationalise data to improve existing processes, taking into consideration impacts on reporting
• Monitor project RAID log to ensure all actions are logged and resolved in a timely manner.
• Provide regular progress updates and raise any issues through the appropriate channels.
• Provide adhoc support where and when required (e.g. during periods of absence)
• Work alongside SMEs to prepare, review and compile fit for purpose test scripts to accommodate migrated data
• Co-ordinate UAT sessions with SMEs, providing additional support as required.
• Lead on timely resolution of incidents/errors, capturing and calling out as required.
• Deliver training sessions to the Working Capital and Procurement teams, including our offshore teams on any business process that needs adapting to manage migrated data

About you

Do you have a proven background within Finance, preferably Procure to Pay or Invoice to Cash? Do you have a good understanding of Oracle (preferred) or ERP systems in general (e.g. SAP, Workday)? Then this could be the role for you!

Alongside the above, we're looking for the following:

• Proficient in data extraction and validation using SQL scripting and Business Objects (desirable) and MS Excel (essential)
• Previous experience working across finance projects, process automation or improvement activities.
• Proven capability to prioritize work, working under pressure and delivering to tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to exercise independent professional judgement and problem solving.
• Excellent IT skills i.e. Microsoft Excel, MS Word, Visio, PowerPoint etc.
• Previous experience in cleansing, mapping, and validating data.

If the above sounds like you, then we'd love to hear from you!

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.