Financial Data Analyst - LATAM- REMOTE

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

As we continue this journey, there is a need for a Regional Data Lead to be based out of LATAM (Mexico City preferred) to support the Maconomy Core Global ERP rollout programme in the LATAM countries. 

The Regional Data Lead will act as the Maconomy/ERP data migration SME, lead/manage all data migration workstream activities and deliverables, be responsible for team management (internal and third-party resource) and the data migration strategy and work-stream plan.

What you'll be doing:

• Act as regional Maconomy/ERP data migration SME by providing expertise on data migration
• Lead, manage and take responsibility of ensuring all data migration workstream activities and deliverables are of right quality and to schedule
• Responsible for team management, coordinating resources for all data requirements gathering, ETL, development, mapping, and cleansing activities involving SSC Data Team, Business Data Team, and 3rd party Tech Data Team
• Working in conjunction with 3rd party Tech Data Team Lead to agree most effective and efficient tooling to be used for the data migration processes and recognizing long-term requirements
• Responsible for the data migration strategy and plan for the project for all in scope OpCos, from profiling to migration, including transition to BAU support
• Develop, manage, and execute data quality cycle, dress rehearsals and cutover plans
• Plan and coordinate data cleansing activities with the SSC Data Team, Agency Data Team, and 3rd parties
• Collaborate with Global Maconomy team to assist Agency and SSC Data Team members to understand the Maconomy data model, migration strategy and upload templates; this includes data definitions, relationships, and constraints.
• Localise the global data migration strategy across data cleansing, extraction, mapping, and enrichment as it applies to each legacy system in the region and communicate this to each country/Agency teams
• Work with Design and Functional Leads to understand the country-specific requirements and their implications for data migration and ensure they are accounted for in the data migration solution

What you'll need:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (both English and Spanish preferred), as well as strong problem-solving abilities and an aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Background in large data conversion projects, with multiple data sources from varying data models utilizing Maconomy/SAP/Oracle/Workday/similar as target
• Strong consulting experience in ERP data cleansing and migration projects with demonstrable leadership backed by strong understanding of ETL processes, data cleansing and data loading for master and transactional data
• Relevant business knowledge of master and transactional data types and their typical use in ERP systems across the entire functional scope (OTC, R2R and P2P process areas
• Good knowledge of finance and accounting (equal with SAP FICO consultant)

• Good knowledge of project management methodologies and the practical application of these practices to deliver results.
• Excellent coordination and organizing skills
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills – to present data concepts in a meaningful way
• A strong background in driving efficiency of data activities in an organization of relevant size, complexity, and scale
• Confidence in challenging situations, able to inform senior management and work under pressure

Who you are:

You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we deliver extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, driven people – We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?