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).

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